Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
English song has been well looked after recently by artists and record companies, and it could be that readers who...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
When Adrian Willaert claimed authorship of a piece that the Papal choir thought was by the great Josquin they promptly...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
Illicit love and the torments of hell, or to be more specific, Dante's Divine Comedy in two reincarnations: one for...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1994
Chesterfield Parish Church's claim to fame is its crooked spire, still remembered with affection by those viewers old enough to...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1993
A wealth of South American music remains unrecorded and so it is good that Naxos has commenced a long-overdue piano...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1999
It’s gratifying to find CPO looking beyond Lehár for 20th-century Viennese operettas. Hard on the heels of Oskar Nedbal’s admirable...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2011
For a composer so well known to the public, Grieg owes his reputation to a mere handful of works, although...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992
Robert White brings all his familiar charm to some of Poulenc’s best-known songs. Predictably the Four Songs for Children, including...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 3/1999
The four cantatas featured in this new disc from Meridian come from Telemann's ''Der harmonische Gottesdienst''. The collection was started...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 1/1990
The Seventh Symphony of Allan Pettersson (1911-80) was one of the first pieces of modern Swedish music that I heard...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
New releases celebrate iconic recordings, fresh discoveries and musical adventures across the...
WiiM Ultra/VibeLink Amp: an ultra-compact take on the ‘just add speakers’ system, this affordable...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.