Search the Reviews Database

Encina Romances and Villancicos

With over 60 songs to his name, Juan del Encina counts as the leading figure in Spanish music of the...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 2/1992

Rabaud Orchestral Works

Good for Marco Polo! The name of Henri Rabaud (1873–1949) is not exactly unknown: he was a Prix de Rome...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 1/1995

Brahms Clarinet Sonatas etc

The catalogue has rarely lacked fine couplings of Brahms’s two late clarinet sonatas. But take note that this new one...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1997

Glazunov Orchestral Works

The second volume of Naxos’s Glazunov series has most of the ingredients of the first (8/96) – same orchestra, same...

Reviewed in issue 10/1996

Siegfried Jerusalem Recital

This is a pleasing enough traversal of arias for tenor by German composers from Gluck to Korngold. I entirely concur...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1992

Prokofiev Violin Sonatas

These are good, confident performances that compete on their own terms and avoid filching ideas from illustrious recorded forebears. Thirty-year-old...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Dvorák Orchestral Works.

Dvorák’s 10 Legends are crammed full of the most entrancing inspiration; Iván Fischer and his personable Budapest band are intensely...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2004

Messiaen Chamber Works

Only in 2007 was Messiaen’s early Fantaisie for violin and piano at long last published. The composer’s suppression of this...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2008

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

This is a classic set of Il barbiere di Siviglia and it is a great delight and solace that it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1987

Mendelssohn String Symphonies

Mendelssohn's youthful string symphonies have almost become repertory items with the growth of so many small groups, some working with...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---