Search the Reviews Database

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7

If a conductor and orchestra can get the opening right (and it’s amazing how many sacrifice momentum to grandeur) then...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphonies Op 110a, 49a & 118a

Rudolf Barshai began transcribing Shostakovich’s string quartets when the composer was still alive, eventually fleshing out as many as five...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2015

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3. Cyprès et Lauriers

In a very busy field, this stands out for the integrity of Leonard Slatkin’s perceptive musicianship. Finding that mixture of...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé

This recording of Daphnis, like the ballet itself, begins so softly that it is not until some seconds in that...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2015

D PRITCHARD Wall of Water

Every now and then a new work comes along that simply takes one’s breath away. The Violin Concerto Wall of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

MESSIAEN Des Canyons aux Étoiles

What weird and wonderful challenges lie in the 100 minutes of Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles. Lucky the London Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2015

MCCABE Symphony No 1. Tuning. Studies

Although acknowledged as a fine composer with a relatively good discography, in some respects the late, great John McCabe –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

The acoustic of Kloster Eberbach is no more obtrusive a presence here than it was in the Resurrection Symphony reviewed...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2015

IVES Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

There are masses of CDs covering all four Ives symphonies and plenty of LPs before that. For the Second Symphony...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 05/2015

GREENAWAY Aubade & Nocturne

The Australian composer, arranger and pianist Sally Greenaway works in a multiplicity of styles and genres, from orchestral film and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---