The Glory of Broadway

Noel Coward was once asked to nominate the artists who he considered possessed that undefinable thing called ‘star quality’, amongst...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 9/1998

Verdi Rigoletto

''Dramatic! Exciting!'' exclaimed the scarlet advertisement on the front of The Gramophone of September 1968. Inside was a review by...

Reviewed in issue 3/1987

Mozart Piano Concertos

For these performances Steven Lubin uses a fortepiano made in the USA in 1981, modelled on a 1785 instrument by...

Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 1/1987

Walton Symphony No 1; Partita

Paul Daniel and the English Northern Philharmonia follow up the success of their first Walton disc for Naxos – coupling...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1998

Mélodies, Volume 2

It is not so much that French song does not respond to an old or ageing voice (think of the...

Reviewed in issue 3/1994

Seven Famous British Organs

What a splendiferous sound! Not so, one might think perhaps, for those to whom the typical large British organ is...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1988

Mahler Symphony No. 1

Still they come, despite what the much-missed critic Michael Oliver would have slammed as “an insane overproduction”. These latest Mahler...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2011

Mahler Symphony No 9

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2002

Liszt Christus

Liszt repeatedly declared that he had no interest in his work being performed, even insisting to a friend: “Christus can...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/2007

Weelkes Sacred Choral Works

O vos omnes: in this instance, all you that customarily pass by without reading reviews of Tudor church music, thinking...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2009