Search the Reviews Database

Review of Aida Garifullina

Aida Garifullina

Aida Garifullina | Cornelius Meister | Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Decca

If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017

Review of Bruch Odysseus

Bruch Odysseus

Bernhard Gärtner | Budapest Radio Chorus | Camilla Nylund | Jeffrey Kneebone | Leon Botstein | Michael Burt | Nancy Maultsby | North German Radio Chorus | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Robert Holzer

Koch-Schwann

During his lifetime Odysseus was one of Bruch’s most frequently performed and highly regarded works: the influential English critic J....

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1999

Review of BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2. Scottish Fantasy

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2. Scottish Fantasy

Antje Weithaas | Hermann Bäumer | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

CPO

Bruch’s Second Concerto is a strong work of considerable originality; it might well have become more popular but for the...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014

Review of BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 LALO Symphonie espagnole

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1 LALO Symphonie espagnole

Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi | Renaud Capuçon

Erato

Renaud Capuçon – that silky smooth French violinist – has just turned 40, and this celebratory disc is a good...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2016

Review of BRUCH; STENHAMMAR Violin Concertos (Svarfvar)

BRUCH; STENHAMMAR Violin Concertos (Svarfvar)

Christian Svarfvar | Henrik Måwe | Joana Carneiro | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Rubicon

Christian Svarfvar muses poetically over the opening solo of the Bruch Concerto. He’s hardly alone in disregarding the composer’s instruction...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/19

Review of Aksel Schiøtz, Vol. 1

Aksel Schiøtz, Vol. 1

(Anonymous) Orchestra | (Royal) Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Aksel Schiøtz | Alberto Medici | Chorus | Copenhagen Royal Orchestra | Copenhagen Youth Orchestra | Egisto Tango | Johan Bentzon | Johan Hye-Knudsen

Danacord

Schiotz’s singing was always the very epitome of silvery elegance. A Danish tenor in the mould of Britain’s Heddle Nash...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1997

Review of Yvonne Lefébure - (A) Lesson in Life

Yvonne Lefébure - (A) Lesson in Life

Yvonne Lefébure

Solstice

For those to whom the name of this pianist is unfamiliar – and the producers of this handsomely packaged release...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 5/2006

Review of Myung Whun Chung Recital

Myung Whun Chung Recital

Myung Whun Chung

ECM New Series

Myung-Whun Chung is better known these days as a conductor. But he began his career as a pianist, winning joint...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

Review of Popular Orchestral Works

Popular Orchestral Works

Carl Davis | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Classics

The record is not primarily one of Carl Davis the composer, probably his best-known and best-admired capacity. Indeed as such...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Review of The Berlin Recordings

The Berlin Recordings

Sergio Fiorentino

Piano Classics

This 10-disc box is Piano Classics’ most ambitious project to date, a tribute to a pianist who for many years...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012

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.