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POULENC Piano Concerto. Concerto for 2 Pianos

As Louis Lortie remarks in a booklet-note, ‘[Poulenc’s] Piano Concerto is almost a guilty pleasure: raw melodic talent unstained by...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015

PIERNÉ Orchestral Works Vol 2

At the heart of this disc lie three works that Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) composed for piano and orchestra: the Scherzo-Caprice...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2015

A PANUFNIK Violin, Cello and Piano Concertos

These three concertos make an effective introduction to the music of a composer whose birth centenary fell in 2014; and...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2015

MOSOLOV Piano Concerto. Piano Sonata

No aficionado of Soviet music can afford to be without at least one disc of Alexander Mosolov, the composer who...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

MASCAGNI Rapsodia Satanica ROTA Il Gattopardo

The latest issue in Frank Strobel’s Original Motion Picture Scores series, surveying orchestral music written as live accompaniment for silent...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

MANKELL; NYSTROEM Piano Concertos

Roughly a contemporary of Wilhelm Stenhammar, Henning Mankell (1868 1930) enjoyed an undramatic existence in Sweden as a critic and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 6

In December 2014 Daniel Harding stepped in to conduct this very work with the Berlin Philharmonic, a high-profile engagement in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Because Leonard Bernstein made his only studio recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in London, the first American ensemble to set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

KUULA South Ostrobothnian Suits Nos 1 & 2

Leevi Madetoja described his friend and associate Toivo Kuula as ‘a man who knows what he wants and is confident...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

KRAGGERUD Equinox

There’s a lot going on here. Henning Kraggerud’s four concertos (‘Afternoon’, ‘Evening’, ‘Night’ and ‘Morning’) of six movements are reflections...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

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