Received for Review
This covers responses to submissions for review, i.e., artists, composers, agents or others who have sent me music / media for reviewing. I’m keeping those separate from reviews of music in my personal library, just so that you are clear about the “mechanism”: with music that I have purchased, I’m usually quite outspoken. “Gifts” (even if they were done with the intent of getting a review), I treat similar to a concert review, i.e., I may be a little more careful. I won’t deliver complacency judgments, though, but will rather refuse to review and/or return the media if I think that my comment(s) might be detrimental to the submitter (artist / composer).
If you consider sending me music for reviewing: note that I’m pretty “booked out”, i.e., I can’t guarantee responses in a given time, nor even that I will review unsolicited submissions (you may want to check with me first).
Also, I will only consider reviewing music that falls into what I consider classical music (my key focus being between the 15th and the early 20th century), and which I feel competent enough to comment (i.e., no cross-over / fusion, no Jazz, no folk, no Pop/Rock, etc., etc.). Even within classical music, I (usually) don’t review opera—I feel that I don’t have the competence to write about stage direction etc.—and for ballet performances I even lack the vocabulary (whatever language!) to describe what I see etc.
Media Received for Review
Last update: 2019-10-27| Date | Artist(s) | Composer(s) | Title / Work | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-31 | Trio Oreade | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791) | Divertimento in E♭ major, K.563; String Trio in G, K.562e (CD, 2019) | Artists |
| 2019-01-02 | Oxana Shevchenko | Stravinsky, Igor (1882 - 1971) | Complete Music for Solo Piano (CD, 2018) | Performance, Artist |
| 2018-07-01 | Christian Erny | Lourié, Arthur (1892 - 1966) | Piano works (CD, 2018) | Composer, Artist |
| 2018-06-28 | Nareh Arghamanyan, Aurélien Pascal, Howard Griffiths, MCO | Danzi, Franz (1763 - 1826) | Piano Concerto in E♭, Cello Concerto in E minor, Overture in D (CD, 2018) | Artists |
| 2017-10-29 | Christian Spuck, Fabio Luisi, Philharmonia, Ballet & Choir of Zurich Opera | Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901) | Messa da Requiem, Ballet (video/DVD, Zurich Opera, live, 2016) | Performance, Artists |
| 2017-08-07 | Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911) | Symphony No.8 in E♭ major (video/BD, Lucerne, KKL, live, 2016) | Performance, Artists |
| 2015-03-05 | (various) | Waller, Michael Vincent (*1985) | The South Shore (2 CDs, 2015) | Composer, Works |
