Search the Reviews Database

McCabe Works for Brass Band

Despite being one of Britain’s leading composers over the past few decades, John McCabe (b. 1939) has not been well...

Reviewed in issue 2/1996

Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem

The “London version” or “Londoner Fassung”, as it is named here, is perhaps a slightly misleading term if it suggests...

Reviewed in issue 6/1997

Boulez; Kurtag; Schoeller Chamber Works

The other woodwind instruments have had their avant-garde champions, so why not the bassoon? French virtuoso Pascal Gallois, one-time member...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2003

Music for wind ensemble

The particular combination of instruments has many hazards; at least two of them are triumphantly overcome on this occasion. One...

Reviewed in issue 4/1986

Beethoven Choral Symphony

Marketing by manifesto is a technique that has been successfully pioneered in recent years both by musicians and record companies....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1992

Rautavaara Works for Violin and Piano

Rautavaara’s music for violin and piano occupies a byway in his output, with no really outstanding work like a sonata....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2011

Dvorák String Quartet No 14; Janácek String Quartet No 1

The real prize here is the Terzetto for two violins and viola, a minor masterpiece that Dvorák wrote for himself...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2006

Haydn String Quartets, Op. 55

Though recordings by the Amadeus, Tatrai and Kodaly Quartets have at one time or another appeared on CD, this new...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/1995

Beethoven Fidelio

On a musical level this is a worthy addition to Chandos’s Opera in English series. David Parry launches the reading...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/2005

Rimsky-Korsakov Orchestral Works

The first point to distinguish this powerful new coupling of Scheherazade and Capriccio espagnol, from Jansons and the LPO, is...

Reviewed in issue 7/1995

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---