Search the Reviews Database

Mayr Musica Sacra

The Austrian broadcasting company ORF is issuing an impressive series of early music recordings, the repertoire almost always remarkably obscure....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2007

R. Strauss Works for Horn

In an informative note, Barry Tuckwell explains how he sought (and was refused) permission to record more Strauss juvenilia than...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus

There is not a great deal to add to what I wrote when reviewing the LP version, except to say...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1987

The Young Shura Cherkassky

As a disc to go out and buy, this is surely for specialist collectors and ex-groupies only. Other admirers of...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1996

Raie da Costa - Piano Recordings of the 1920s & 30s, Volume 1

With the rise of Billy Mayerl, further fine syncopated pianists are emerging. The South African-born, classically trained da Costa died...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 13/1998

Songs of Angels - Magdalen College, Oxford

To the sound of a distantly tolling bell, singing men open this intriguing disc with the medieval Vespers’ Hymn celebrating...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/2003

Beethoven Piano Concerto 5; Choral Fantasia

The opening, threefold flourish of the Emperor Concerto has always seemed to me the herald of a work of huge,...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 4/1990

Zemlinsky Orchestral Works

Collectors with designs on the completest possible Zemlinsky will want this disc, but I don't feel that most of the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1991

Dame Moura Lympanys plays Falla, Liszt, Litolff & Mendelssohn

All these recordings, dating from 1964 to 1967, appear on general release for the first time, with the Liszt A...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000

Bernstein Symphony No.2; Shostakovich Symphony No.5

In his recently published Working with Bernstein (10/10), Jack Gottlieb includes extracts from the journal he kept during the New...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2010

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---