Search the Reviews Database

Review of Worcester Fragments

Worcester Fragments

In this recording the Orlando Consort have made a substantial contribution to the corpus of English medieval music available on...

Reviewed by mberry in issue: 8/1993

Review of Mozart: Piano Trios

Mozart: Piano Trios

If the Beaux Arts had merely offered us a transfer of their 1967-made recording of Mozart's piano trios, two CD's...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1988

Review of Violin Fantasies

Violin Fantasies

Jennifer Koh made a positive impression on disc with her Chandos recording of Menotti’s Violin Concerto. Here she offers an...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 13/2004

Review of Telemann Trumpet Concertos

Telemann Trumpet Concertos

Telemann enthusiasts will be delighted by some things on this new disc from Philips but rather less so by others...

Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 8/1988

Review of Beethoven Symphonies

Beethoven Symphonies

These were two of Sir Thomas Beecham's favourite symphonies, and I can well imagine him cocking an approving ear towards...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1995

Review of Beethoven (La) Lettre à Elise

Beethoven (La) Lettre à Elise

A few years ago Wilfred Mellers said: ‘Beethoven, whom we conventionally associate with Teutonic introspection and angst, is also by...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2005

Review of Mozart Divertimenti

Mozart Divertimenti

These delectable divertimentos were but two of about ten such works Mozart wrote at the age of 20—in which year...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989

Review of Verdi I Masnadieri

Verdi I Masnadieri

Musically this is surely the best of those operas mostly conducted by Gardelli, which were discoveries for many of us...

Reviewed in issue 11/1989

Review of Martinu/Bloch Orchestral Works

Martinu/Bloch Orchestral Works

A good idea, this – at least in principle. Two gifted near-contemporaries (both died in 1959, though Bloch was the...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Review of Mozart (arr Hummel) Symphonies Nos 38 & 41

Mozart (arr Hummel) Symphonies Nos 38 & 41

In the days before radios and recordings, the only way to rehear music that you had enjoyed at a concert...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 7/1999


 

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.