Search the Reviews Database

Beethoven Missa Solemnis

Recorded live in Montreux last February, Herreweghe's recording of the Missa solemnis vies with Gardiner's studio performance with period forces...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1995

Franz Lehár conducts Richard Tauber

What new can one say about Tauber singing Lehar under the composer's baton? Suffice it to say that, in the...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/1989

Milhaud String Quartets

Milhaud's admirers will need no reminder that his output was as uneven as it was enormous and that an issue...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1995

Bach Complete Partitas

Bernard Roberts’ view of Bach runs roughly along the lines of Schnabel’s‚ Serkin’s or Horszowski’s: in other words‚ it’s more...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2001

Martinu Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra, Vol 3

Martinu’s Suite concertante has as chequered a history as any work I know. Commissioned in 1938 by Samuel Dushkin –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 7/2008

Vycpálek Czech Requiem/Cantata

The labelling of this record as Supraphon Historical is almost poignantly accurate; it is also a historic record in several...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1993

Haydn English Love Songs

The introductory essay by J. T. Linford quotes Hamlet's advice to the players, the bit about the desirability of temperance...

Reviewed in issue 11/1991

Aaron Rosand Live at Mills College

Now 76, Aaron Rosand has devoted more of his time than most to keeping alive the Golden Age, when violin...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2005

Poulenc Mélodies

The one ''indispensable thing'' a recitalist needs, or so wrote Pierre Bernac, Poulenc's greatest interpreter, is to have ''a great...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/1994

Rameau Nouvelles suites de Pièces de clavecin

Rameau was no stranger to the art of transcription‚ as two of the pieces in these suites testify – notably...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/2002

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---