Search the Reviews Database

Marian Nowakiwski - Arias

‘The great Polish bass’ is the record’s subtitle. I have no desire to belittle any singer‚ living or dead –...

Reviewed in issue 3/2002

Mendelssohn Elijah

The ongoing restitution of this work on disc continues apace with this thrilling version, one that seriously threatens the hegemony...

Reviewed in issue 9/1995

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia

Abbado's Barbiere may only just have appeared on CD, but it is a good ten years older than Marriner's, and,...

Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1986

Rawsthorne Chamber Works

Naxos's fourth issue of Alan Rawsthorne's music presents us, again, with a disc brimming with high-quality music and superlative performances....

Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/2000

Dvorák Piano Quintets

There is not really an improvement on the original LPs of this pair of performances, but the somewhat hoarse sound...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1985

Berlioz; Chausson; Dukas Works for Voice and Orchestra

The dark timbre of Elsa Maurus’s voice would seem to suit her well to Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2005

Strauss (Die) Liebe der Danae

Michael Oliver wrote a convincing defence of Strauss’s last-but-one opera some three years ago, when reviewing the Botstein set, just...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2004

Fauré/Saint-Saëns String Quartets

It seems a strange coincidence, given the neglect of Saint-Saens’s two string quartets, that two impressive recordings should arrive at...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/1998

Hindemith Complete Wind Concertos

Hindemith's four wind concertos (1947-9) have never enjoyed the success of the Kammermusik concertos (with which they have much in...

Reviewed in issue 11/1995

Berlioz Requiem

There is not enough wrong with this performance. Berlioz's Requiem is a dangerous piece, one that should hover on the...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1995

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---