Search the Reviews Database

Review of Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands

Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands

Perhaps only Mozart compares with Schubert in achieving poignancy through economical means. At the same time it has to be...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2009

Review of Purcell: Chamber Works

Purcell: Chamber Works

These are the fantasies Purcell wrote as a young man more or less in the style of the out-dated Jacobean...

Reviewed in issue 3/1984

Review of Brahms Symphonies Nos 1 and 3

Brahms Symphonies Nos 1 and 3

Heard superficially in Brahms’s Third, Christoph von Dóhnanyi and Sir Colin Davis both weigh in heavily, much as Furtwängler and...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2011

Review of Tansman String Quartets, etc

Tansman String Quartets, etc

The story is that Alexander Tansman (1897-1986) was severely criticized for early avant-garde tendencies in his native Poland, and found...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/1992

Review of Wagner Arias

Wagner Arias

A quote on the sleeve of this new record, refering to Behren's Brunnhilde, says it all: ''It would have been...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1986

Review of Mozart Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 19 & 20

Mozart Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos 19 & 20

Greatly celebrated in Chopin and in the Russian Romantics, Nikolai Lugansky here turns to Mozart where his musicianship and impeccable...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2002

Review of Debussy: 2-Piano Works

Debussy: 2-Piano Works

This is an admirable release, and it would have been even better had the sound quality been a little more...

Reviewed in issue 5/1987

Review of R. Strauss: The Extinguished Festivities

R. Strauss: The Extinguished Festivities

With this disc, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra completes its recordings of Strauss's full-length ballets, a most valuable contribution to...

Reviewed in issue 11/1990

Review of Russian Orchestral Music

Russian Orchestral Music

Miaskovsky's twenty-first was for a long time the one symphony which kept his name alive in the West. Originally a...

Reviewed in issue 2/1995

Review of Haydn Symphonies, Volume 5 - Nos 70-81

Haydn Symphonies, Volume 5 - Nos 70-81

The right venue makes all the difference; and Nimbus was right to choose the Haydnsaal at Schloss Eisenstadt because the...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2000


 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides




Beethoven


Early Music


Mozart


Elgar

Gramophone Print

  • Print Edition

From £6.67 / month

Subscribe

Gramophone Digital Club

  • Digital Edition
  • Digital Archive
  • Reviews Database
  • Full website access

From £8.75 / month

Subscribe

                              

If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.