Classical
ALBUM REVIEWS
A comprehensive list of classical recording reviews.
A - Z OF ALL Classical ALBUMS
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- 鶹 National Orchestra Of Wales: Berkeley Edition Vol.6
- CPE Bach: Sonatas and Rondos
- JS Bach: English Suites
- JS Bach: Complete Harpsichord Concertos
- JS Bach: Easter & Ascension Oratorios
- JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
- JS Bach: Violin Concertos
- JS Bach: The Toccatas
- JS Bach: Tönet, ihr Pauken!
- JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
- JS Bach: Actus Tragicus
- JS Bach/Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues
- JS Bach: Goldberg Variations
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthew Passion
- Cecilia Bartoli: Maria
- Béla Bartók: Violin Sonatas
- Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
- Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin
- Bax: String Quartets
- María Bayo: Arias de Zarzuela Barroca
- Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
- Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 - 5
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (Choral)
- Beethoven: The Beethoven Symphonies
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
- Beethoven: Piano Trios
- Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
- Beethoven Piano Concertos 2 & 3: Martha Argerich
- Beethoven: Bagatelles
- Nicola Benedetti: Vaughan-Williams & Tavener
- Nicola Benedetti: Debut Album
- Berg: Wozzeck
- Berg/Britten: Violin Concertos
- Berio: Voci
- The Berkeley Edition Vol. 2: 鶹 NOW/Hickox
- Berlioz: Les Troyens
- Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
- Berlioz: Requiem
- Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
- Biber: Violin Sonatas
- Blake: Blake
- Boccherini: Cello Quintets 2
- Andrea Bocelli: The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere
- Alfie Boe: La Passione
- Bonnet: Organ Music: Harold Britton
- Borodin: String Quartets
- Ian Bostridge: Great Handel
- Lili Boulanger: Psalms
- James Bowman: John Dowland: Awake Sweet Love
- Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1
- Brahms: Music for 2 pianos
- Brahms: Cello Sonatas
- Brahms: Piano Quartet
- Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
- Brahms: Trios
- Brahms: Violin Concerto
- Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas and Trio
- Brahms: Violin Concerto, Hungarian Dances
- Brahms/Handel: Piano Works
- Britten: Les Illuminations
- Britten: Suites for Solo Cello
- Britten: The Turn of the Screw
- Britten/Walton: Concertos for Violin and Viola
- John Browne: Music from the Eton Choirbook
- Bruch: Chamber Works
- Bruckner: Symphony no. 8
- Bruckner: Symphony no. 8
- Anton Bruckner: Mass In E Minor & Motets
- Busoni: Music for Two Pianos
- Buxtehude: Sacred Cantatas
- Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
- Buxtehude: Complete Works for Organ vol. 2
- Buxtehude: Complete Works for Organ Vol. 3
- William Byrd: Second Service & Consort Anthems
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- Uri Caine: Diabelli Variations
- El Cancionero de Montecassino: La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Savall
- Canciones Argentinas: Bernarda Fink/Marcos Fink/Carmen Piazzini
- William Carter: La Guitarra Española - The Music of Santiago de Murcia
- Ha-Na Chang: Romance
- Sarah Chang: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
- Choir of King's College Cambridge: Choir of King's College Cambridge
- Choir of King's College Cambridge: I Heard A Voice
- The Choirboys: The Carols Album
- Chopin: Études
- Chopin: Ballades, Mazurkas, Polonaises
- Natalie Clein: Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85
- Clifford/Bainton: Epithalamion
- Corelli: Violin Sonatas Op. 5
- Coro Cervantes: O Crux (Spanish Choral Music)
- The Coronation of King George II: King's Consort/Robert King
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- The Galliard Ensemble: opus number zoo
- Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre Dame
- James Gilchrist: Ralph Vaughan-Williams On Wenlock Edge
- Louis Glass: String Sextet and Piano Quintet
- Evelyn Glennie: Oriental Landscapes
- Gluck: Alceste
- Godowsky: Piano Sonata & Passacaglia
- Heiner Goebbels: Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
- Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbbuk
- Susan Graham: Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall
- Gregorian Chant: Choir of King's College Cambridge
- Griffes: Orchestral Music
- Hélène Grimaud: Reflection: Works by Robert & Clara Schumann & Brahms
- Gubaidulina, Sofia: Seven Words
- Barry Guy: Folio
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- Viviane Hagner: Ciaccona - Music for Solo Violin by Bach, Bartok & Hartmann
- Halle Orchestra: Debussy: La Mer/Preludes
- Handel: Il Trionfo del tempo e del Disinganno
- Handel: Giulio Cesare
- Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas
- Richard Harwood: Sonatas
- Haydn: Great Masses
- Haydn: Symphonies 6-8
- Haydn: Piano Sonatas
- Haydn: The Creation
- Haydn: The Creation
- Jascha Heifetz: Heifetz Rediscovered
- Susanne Heinrich: Mr Abel's Fine Airs
- Hope/Dukes/Watkins: Forbidden Music
- Huelgas-Ensemble: 40 Voices
- Hummel: Piano Trios Vol 1 & 2
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Neruda Songs
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- Leos Janácek: The Makropoulos Case
- Janine Jansen: Concertos & Romance
- Leos Janácek: Two String Quartets
- Leos Janácek: 'Intimate Letters'
- Leos Janácek: Orchestral Music
- Leos Janácek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
- Leos Janácek: The Excursions Of Mr Broucek
- Katherine Jenkins: Rejoice
- Katherine Jenkins: Première
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- Nigel Kennedy: Polish Spirit
- Simone Kermes: Amor Sacro: Vivaldi Mottetti
- Kindred Spirits: Kindred Spirits
- Myleene Klass: Myleene's Music For Romance
- Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes, op.65
- Koechlin: Vocal Works with Orchestra
- Magdalena Kozená: Opera Arias
- Gidon Kremer: Happy Birthday
- Gidon Kremer: Franz Schubert
- Kronos Quartet: Gorecki’s String Quartet No. 3, Songs are Sung
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- Joanna MacGregor: Play
- James MacMillan: Raising Sparks
- Mahler: Symphony 6
- Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
- Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4, chamber version
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1
- Elin Manahan Thomas: Eternal Light
- Natasha Marsh: Amour
- Natasha Marsh: Natasha Marsh
- Maxim Vengerov: Violin music by Lalo, Saint-Saëns and Ravel
- Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto 1
- Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus
- Messiaen: Complete Organ Works
- Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Étoiles
- Messiaen: Visions de l'Amen
- Olivier Messiaen: Chamber Works
- Missa Mexicana: The Harp Consort
- Gabriela Montero: Baroque
- Monteverdi Choir: Bach Cantatas Vol 22: Eisenach
- Morimur: Hilliard Ensemble
- Mozart: Flute Concertos
- Mozart: Opera Arias
- Mozart: 3 Violin Concertos
- Mozart: Violin Concertos
- Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
- Mozart: Piano Concertos K271 & K503
- Mozart: Mozart Symphonies No38-41
- Mozart: String Quartets
- Music for the Duke of Lerma: Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Mussorgsky: Symphonic Transcriptions by Stokowski
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- Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Piano Sonata Op21
- Pavlova: Symphonies 1 & 3
- Pergolesi: Marian Vespers
- Patricia Petibon: French Baroque Arias
- Artur Pizarro: Reminiscences
- Artur Pizarro: The Complete Works Of Ravel Vol.1
- Mikhail Pletnev: Live at Carnegie Hall
- Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
- Poulenc: Figure Humaine
- Leontyne Price: Rediscovered
- Puccini Discoveries: Riccardo Chailly
- Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme
- Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
- David Pyatt: British Horn Concertos
- Arvo Pärt: Lamentate
- Arvo Pärt: Triodion
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- Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 2
- Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos; Rhapsody...Paganini
- Rameau: Ballet Suites
- Rameau: Nouvelles Suites
- Simon Rattle: Bruckner: Symphony No.4
- Ravel: Shéhérazade
- Alan Rawsthorne: Symphonies 1 - 3
- Jacob Regnart: Missa Super Oeniades Nymphae
- Steve Reich: Three Tales
- Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks
- Wolfgang Rihm: Wolfgang Rihm Edition Volume 1
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Duos
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
- de Rore: Missa Praeter rerum serium
- Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle
- Rossini: Soirées Musicales
- Kate Royal: Kate Royal
- Rubinstein: Piano Concerto no. 4 in D minor
- Terje Rypdal: Lux Aeterna
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- Saint-Saëns: Complete Piano Music
- Saint-Saëns: Carnaval des Animaux
- Sallinen: The King Goes Forth to France
- Scarlatti: La Santissima Trinità
- Schnittke: Choir Concerto
- Schnittke/Part: Voices of Nature
- Andreas Scholl: Arcadia
- Andreas Scholl: Wayfaring Stranger
- Schubert: Late Piano Sonatas
- Schubert: Death and the Maiden
- Schubert: Piano Trio no. 2 in E flat
- Schumann: Symphonies
- Schumann: String Quartets
- Robert Schumann: Symphonies, Overtures
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart Serenades
- Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
- Shostakovich: Violin Concertos 1 & 2
- Sibelius: Luonnotar/Orchestral Songs
- Sibelius: Tone Poems
- Jean Sibelius (DVD): The Christopher Nupen Films
- Sibelius/Sinding: Violin Concerto
- Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No.6
- Smetana: Má Vlast
- Sting: Songs From The Labyrinth
- Richard Strauss: Josephslegende
- Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony/Four Last Songs
- Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
- Stravinsky: Petrouchka
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- Various: Masterpieces Of Portuguese Polyphony
- Various: The Feast Of The Ascension At Westminster Abbey
- Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
- Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music
- Vaughan Williams: Willow-wood
- Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
- Vaughan Williams: Film Music Vol 1
- A Venetian Christmas: Gabrieli Consort/McCreesh
- Verdi: Falstaff
- Villa-Lobos: Symphony no. 10 'Amerindia'
- Vivaldi: Violin Concertos
- Vivaldi: Arie d'Opera
- Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade
- Vivaldi: La Stravaganza
- Antonio Vivaldi: Opera Arias and Sinfonias
- Kevin Volans: gathering