Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
There is an unfailingly genial quality to Mozart's serenades and divertimentos, and these ten works make three very agreeable discs:...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1991
“Bohème is a winner: Bohème never fails.” No, and it doesn’t fail now; it doesn’t succeed very brilliantly either. The Covent...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2010
This set includes the first issue of Brahms's Third Symphony and completes Gunter Wand's survey of them all. I find...
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
This is the kind of issue which may not seem immediately attractive to some collectors but will be a must...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1992
As with so much else in Russian music, it was Glinka who set crucial examples to his successors with his...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1989
Over the years recordings of Albeniz’s Iberia have always tended to rest under the shadow of Alicia de Larrocha. But...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Gade’s representation in the catalogue has increased enormously over the last few years and the present issue brings us a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1997
Now here’s a find. Born in London in 1917 and a student of John Ireland at the Royal College of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2006
It’s a sad thought that, due to their imminent retirement, there aren’t going to be many more recordings from The...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2003
One mark of a great conductor is undoubtedly the ability to make an orchestra give a performance of a well-known...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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