Search the Reviews Database

Dvorák Orchestral Works

This is a convincingly high-powered and superbly-played reading of Dvorak's most popular symphony, brilliantly recorded in digital sound. Since Maazel...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1983

Elgar Violin Concerto

The array of mastery in the four versions I have listed presents an extraordinary range of expressive imagination. Elgar's elusive...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1984

Martinu/Kobayashi Orchestral Works

This disc, made up of tapes from the archive of Slovak Radio, Bratislava, features the Leader and Principal Viola of...

Reviewed in issue 9/1992

Puccini Il Trittico

It must have been a daunting task for Antonio Pappano to follow up his outstanding recording of La Rondine,

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1999

Beethoven: Dances

Twenty-four short dances in three-time followed by 12 more in 2/4 hardly make an ideal record for continuous listening, but...

Reviewed in issue 4/1985

Barber/Bartók/Vaughan Williams Choral Works

This powerful cantata-triptych is lucidly directed. Robert Shaw draws a flawlessly disciplined response from his fine Atlanta choir, the orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1998

Coates Sound and Vision

With a complete edition of Leroy Anderson’s orchestral music in progress, one might wonder why Eric Coates has not been...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2008

New York Polyphony - Tudor City

I have never been to the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in New York, so I can’t vouch...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/2010

Weber Silvana

Silvana is well worth rehabilitation. Weber wrote it (or rather, rewrote it from a lost juvenile effort) during his Stuttgart...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997

Schubert Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5

Since this disc appears as Vol. 5 in Kuerti's Schubert sonata cycle, you may well ask why it includes Impromptus....

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---