Search the Reviews Database

SCHUBERT; BRAHMS Piano Duos. Cello Sonatas

When Pieter Wispelwey points out that by playing neither the violin, viola, flute or arpeggione he’s missing out on no...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016

BARTÓK Works for Violin and Piano

A very useful double-pack, this, which, although not always absolutely top-of-the-league performance-wise, is certainly good enough to convey the essence...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Selected Romances

Christian Heindl muses, in his booklet note, that Tchaikovsky’s songs might have achieved greater international fame if the composer had...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016

SIBELIUS Songs

This selection of about a third of Sibelius’s solo songs with piano confirms again the composer’s imaginatively wide selection of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2016

SCHÜTZ Symphonie Sacrae I & III

These two ensembles are (along with Cantus Cölln) among the finest and most prolific exponents of Schütz on CD. With...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2016

SCHUBERT Winterreise

Jon Vickers’s 1983 Winterreise is simply hors concours. As with everything he sang, the Canadian tenor’s sincerity and depth of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016

ROTH A Time to Dance

Composer Alec Roth may be UK-based and of Irish/German descent, but it’s America that provides the musical heritage for his...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2016

ROSENMÜLLER Marienvesper

In the early 1650s Johann Rosenmüller was promised that he would become the next Thomaskantor, but this plan was scuppered...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016

PÄRT Organ and Choral Music

This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ, somewhat oddly programmed...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2016

MONTEVERDI Vespro della Beata Vergine

There is a celebratory atmosphere to this Vespers, recorded at a concert in the Royal Chapel at Versailles. And why...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2016

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---