Search the Reviews Database

Piatigorsky plays Brahms & Strauss

Piatigorsky is given the chief billing here, but in fact it is the two conductors who dominate the proceedings. Munch...

Reviewed in issue 10/1993

Bach: Keyboard works

When Bach first wrote the Inventions (originally differently titled) in Wilhelm Friedemann's Clavierbuchlein he placed them in order of complexity...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 3/1987

Grieg Piano & Chamber Works

Grieg's Op. 7 is his only sonata for the piano, and the Op. 36 his only sonata for the cello....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1994

Walton Facade

The Façade entertainment – poems by Edith Sitwell to music by the then­unknown William Walton – was an amorphous creation‚...

Reviewed in issue 9/2001

Bach Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1 - 6

Interpolated among a highly individual, challenging and variable Bach cantata series, these Brandenburgs appear as fresh, often supremely sensitive, yet...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2010

Purcell works

This anthology represents Purcell's inventive word-setting better than any other I know. The performances seem to me convincingly close to...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Chopin Complete Etudes

Nikolai Lugansky is a 27-year-old pianist with golden-boy looks who reminds us in his enviably fleet and masterful survey of...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: /2000

Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos

Cho-Liang Lin's performances were highly praised when they were first issued, and rightly so. They make a superb mid-price coupling...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1991

Songs of England

Graham Trew is by now very experienced in this repertoire, roughly English song of the earlier part of the century....

Reviewed in issue 10/1984

Beethoven Symphony No 9

A distinguished Ninth; Hickox's new recording is a salutory reminder that a conventionally paced performance on modern instruments can be...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1989

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---