Search the Reviews Database

Bach ClavierÜbung, Pt 3; Chorales

However arcane in appearance, this programme principally comprises the major chorale preludes which form the basis of the third part...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/1999

Schubert Symphony 9

Trevor Harvey greeted this in the warmest terms—and rightly so. As a performance it is quite glorious and can hold...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1983

Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6; Francesca da Rimini

It is not difficult to think of more starry combinations that make a mess of those roller-coaster rising and falling...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1994

Mozart Piano Works

''Mozart played on new instruments, and that is the course which we have also chosen'' writes Jos van Immerseel in...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986

Schubert Symphony No 9

A ''heart-breaking show of spirit in adversity'' is how Tovey describes the solitary oboe at the start of the Symphony's...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1992

Prokofiev & Shostakovich Violin Concertos

Mullova's cool objectivity has been a problem for me in the past and I cannot pretend that there are not...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989

Bednall Hail, Gladdening Light

David Bednall (b1979) is an accomplished organist – a fact underlined by a fine display of virtuosity in the extended...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 5/2007

At the Beach

There is a good deal that is trivial here, notably the Waldteufel Pluie d'etoiles which goes on for too long,...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1989

Linda Brava

The opening Elgar Salut d'amour is pleasing enough but the following Faure Berceuse is utterly winning, and the famous 'Meditation'...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1999

Stanford Piano Quintet; String Quintet No 1

Boosted by the warm reception afforded to his early sonatas for violin and cello and First Piano Quartet, the 33-year-old...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2006

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---