Review - QUAD 33/303
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
This is the third recording of the Korngold Concerto to have come my way in mere months – demonstrating, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 1/2010
In all Britten's multifarious writing for the tenor voice there is no more ecstatically lyrical outpouring than the final section...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1990
And with a wry riff off the title, maybe, of Andy Williams’s “Music To Watch Girls By”, Music for checking...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 13/2010
You need to know your way around the Gramophone Database to find anything relating to this. “Kennedy-Fraser” (“Fraser,...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
Giaches de Wert is best known for his madrigals and for the influence he had on the young Monteverdi, who...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2008
Yet another American flees from the extremes of modernism to the safety of the good old triad and the ubiquitous...
Reviewed in issue 6/1988
This is not an easy release to write about. Although I would hardly have chosen Bolet as a favourite pianist...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1988
This disc assembles some of the best of Sibelius’s piano music – Kyllikki and the three Sonatinas, Op. 67. These...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1996
Writing in February, my colleague JBS expressed mixed reactions to the LP and I too find the singing a little...
Reviewed in issue 2/1985
Patrick Crommelynck and Taeko Kuwata (a lady from Japan) met as fellow students of Dieter Weber in Vienna. They formed...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1987
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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