Search the Reviews Database

CORIGLIANO Symphony No 1 COPLAND Appalachian Spring

This is the third recording of John Corigliano’s Symphony No 1, the American composer’s enraged and elegiac response to the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

DALE; CLARKE Pieces for Viola

Richard Walthew’s A Mosaic in Ten Pieces (with Dedication) is a long name for a short work. So try this....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16

BRAHMS Double Concerto

Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms’s interpretatively perilous Double...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

BARTÓK The Miraculous Mandarin. Dance Suite. Contrasts

This disc presents a satisfying if somewhat quirkily planned programme. Near the opening of The Miraculous Mandarin ballet Salonen takes...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

There is not much Bach in the Capella Savaria discography but this Brandenburg Concertos set follows on from a violin...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16

Ave Maria: Music for Upper Voices

The Anglican church is responsible for generating a unique repertoire of music for upper voices – music that is celebrated...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW16

VIVALDI Les Orphelines de Venise

For aeons Andrew Parrott’s version (Virgin, 1/95) was the only noteworthy recording of Vivaldi’s popular Gloria (RV589) that used an...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16

V THOMSON Complete songs

‘Virgil Thomson’s composing gift has never relied on interesting ideas, but on the uses to which dull ideas can be...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW16

TCHAIKOVSKY Sacred Choral Music

This anthology of Tchaikovsky’s sacred music is a valuable addition to the catalogue, containing as it does material from the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW16

STRAVINSKY Mass. Cantata. 3 Sacred Choruses

This logically planned programme is beautifully sung and blessed with outstandingly vivid recorded sound. We are brought close to the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---