Search the Reviews Database

RIBERA Magnificats & motets

Bernardino de Ribera (c1520-?1580) is perhaps best known as the early mentor of Victoria, who he taught during his stint...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2016

RACHMANINOV Vespers

Long gone are the days when Rachmaninov’s Vigil was a rarity among Western choirs; it has assumed, rightly, the status...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2016

RACHMANINOV Songs

First impressions are crucial. Opening with one of the most beautiful songs in the Russian repertoire, ‘Sing not to me,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

MUFFAT Misse in labore requies

Lucky Johannes Strobl! Director of music at the drippingly Baroque Abbey Church of Muri in Switzerland, with its two historic...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016

HENZE Being Beauteous. Kammermusik 1958

As with Britten, fresh recordings of Henze inevitably confront those the composer conducted personally, and this alluring and restrained Being...

Reviewed in issue 09/2016

FRANDSEN Songs

Musical polymath John Frandsen has notched up seven operas and a recent long-form Requiem, ‘an eloquent statement’ for Malcolm Riley...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2016

BRUCKNER Mass No 3

The seemingly endless flow of Bruckner symphony releases makes it easy to forget that some of the composer’s most inspired...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2016

Barry Meets Beethoven

A welcome addition, this, to the Gerald Barry discography. Bookended by two works setting Beethoven’s letters, the disc also features...

Reviewed in issue 09/2016

Di Guerra e di Pace: Renaissance music for winds and percussion

This engaging recital focuses on music from the first half of the 16th century known to have been performed by...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2. Viola Sonata

It is becoming ever more routine to couple both Shostakovich piano trios together, and with the half-hour Viola Sonata and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2016

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---