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ZANDONAI Francesca da Rimini (Rizzi)
‘What we’re really watching is a gathering of the damned’, writes Christof Loy in a note for his extraordinary Berlin...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2022
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS On Wenlock Edge & other songs (Nicky Spence)
Nicky Spence and colleagues serve up a nourishing feast of Vaughan Williams’s vocal music, culminating in a performance of On...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022
NESBIT Sacred Choral Music
Never having knowingly heard any of Edward Nesbit’s work before, I had no idea what to expect of his choral...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022
JÓHANNSSON Drone Mass
Since Jóhann Jóhannsson’s death in 2018 at the age of only 48, his label DG has done much to promote...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2022
R CLARKE 'Sempiternam'
This release collects 30 years’ worth of choral music by one of Ireland’s most cherished composers and teachers. It is...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2022
SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D664, 769a & 894 (Stephen Hough)
To use Stephen Hough’s own words from his previous Schubert recording for Hyperion (6/99), the ‘communion of hearts’ between the...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 05/2022
HANDEL Winged Hands: The Eight Great Suites & Overtures (Francesco Corti)
Francesco Corti’s discography as a solo harpsichordist is not long, essentially consisting of two Bach releases – the Partitas some...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Klára Würtz)
Hungarian-born Klára Würtz is a matured child prodigy with a difference: her pianism sidesteps overt display or affectedness in favour...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
JS BACH The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 6 (Benjamin Alard)
Volume 6 in Benjamin Alard’s cycle covering JS Bach’s complete keyboard output brings us The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. It’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2022
Mozart Momentum - 1786
I was lucky enough to review the first volume of ‘Mozart Momentum’ (6/21) and this second one, centred around 1786,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Mitsuko Uchida)
Has Diabelli’s innocent theme ever been given such a sharp profile, I wonder? The grace notes are fractionally elongated, so...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2022
ElectroResonance
This programme of interactive electronic music by composer-improvisers Jane Rigler, Curtis Bahn and Thomas Ciufo was recorded live on a...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022
Collected Works of Beth Mehocic
The title of this disc is misleading. Beth Mehocic (1953-2022) composed a good deal more than the six works collated...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
LYN A Point on a Slow Curve
It took Dana Lyn eight years to create what might be described as a musical diorama accompanying the process by...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2022
ELISHA 'Anthelion'
One of the greatest joys of being a reviewer is encountering an unfamiliar compositional voice. Adrienne Elisha (1958-2017) was a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
AYLWARD Celestial Forms and Stories
The title of John Aylward’s five-movement suite, performed on a New Focus disc by members of Klangforum Wien, comes from...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2022
Nadine Sierra: Made for Opera
In the booklet note for her second solo album, Nadine Sierra waxes lyrical about how she was formed as a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)
The archetypal German Romantic opera, where folkish charm collides with sinister supernatural forces, has done well on CD. In the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Phryné (Niquet)
First performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1893, Phryné comes immediately after Saint-Saëns’s big stage works of the late 1870s and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
PHIBBS Juliana (Vass)
Vilified and banned though it may have been initially, Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888) has more than made up any lost...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
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