Search the Reviews Database

Boccherini Guitar Quintets

Let’s face it: these adaptations by Boccherini of some of his other compositions won’t shake the world. Charles Burney’s epithets...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2001

Benedict; Macfarren (The) Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 48

Sir Julius Benedict (German-born, he was knighted in 1871) was central to musical life in Victorian England. His opera The...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2009

Franck Organ Works

Far be it for me to complain that record companies are giving us a surfeit of Franck. But new recordings...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/1991

Martinu Symphonies

So much spatial information is written into Martinu's music that an over-active acoustic can all too easily upset the delicate...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1991

Russian Duos

There is some evidence that Dmitri Tsyganov, who made these violin and piano transcriptions of Shostakovich's Preludes with the composer's...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1988

Verdi Il Trovatore (sung in English)

One’s own vernacular is the language of common sense, and Il trovatore is not of that realm. The extremes of...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/2000

Rossini España (Y)

As the operatic opening cantilena of Ramón Carnicer’s Fantasía immediately demonstrates‚ Joan Enric Lluna‚ principal clarinet of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta‚...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Vaughan Williams Hymn Tunes

Early this century Percy Dearmer and Vaughan Williams entered into a literary and musical partnership, with a view to the...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1989

Mendelssohn Piano Trios

There’s no question that the Trio Wanderer are a very classy ensemble. Their previous recordings of Ravel, Shostakovich, Schubert and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2007

Most Sacred Banquet

Apparently indifferent to the possible existence of other St Thomas churches (wasn’t someone called Bach associated with one?), this choir...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1996

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---