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Rosette Anday (1903-1977)
The plum in this pie is Delilah’s first solo, “Printemps qui commence”. If that were extracted, Jack Horner fashion, not...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
Bach Brandenburg Concertos
Sir Adrian Boult's unashamedly old-fashioned, but immensely enjoyable set of Brandenburgs dates from the early 1970s. After the invigoratingly robust...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2000
Rubinstein, Heifetz and Piatigorski
EMI’s new Classic Archive series offers vivid portraits of five great musicians of the 20th century thanks to archive films...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2003
(The) Kelvingrove Organ
The town hall/concert hall organ of the 19th and early 20th century may have been created in the UK by...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2004
Myra Hess - The complete solo American Columbia recordings
Dame Myra Hess was notoriously microphone shy and her few recordings—whether 'unofficial' or official—are sought as eagerly as gold-dust. So...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1995
Friedrich Schorr
Schorr has always been one of the foremost singers in my own personal pantheon, and hearing this record through from...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
Heifetz Collection - Gershwin & Encores
Brooks Smith | Emanuel Bay | Jascha Heifetz
This disc might well have been designed to illustrate the opening line of Wolf's Italian Songbook, ''Auch kleine Dinge...'', ''Little...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1993
Furtwängler The Early Recordings
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
Far be it for me to suggest that you take scissors or blade to the pages of Gramophone, sacred sward...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1992
Rupert Charlesworth: Nocturnes
Edwige Herchenroder | Rupert Charlesworth
Performances at the Aix-en-Provence festival can sometimes stretch to the other side of midnight. This programme began as a recital...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2015
Paderewski - Selected US Victor Recordings 1914-1941
Despite (and often because of) such old-fashioned devices as the asynchronisation of hands and exaggerated rubato, there is playing of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 3/2009
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