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SCHUBERT Complete Symphonies. Masses Nos 5 & 6

Between 2003 and 2006, the Berlin Philharmonic devoted two concerts each season to what was in effect a Harnoncourt Schubert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015

SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto

‘Spiritual and not sentimental, intellectual and not emotional’ were Schoenberg’s performance values, according to the conductor Hermann Scherchen, and by...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015

SCHMIERER Zodiaci Musici, Orchestral Suites

Johann Abraham Schmierer (literally ‘scribbler’) was discharged from Augsburg cathedral choir in 1680, but it was in the same city...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos 2 & 3

Writing intriguingly in this disc’s accompanying note, Jed Distler tells us of a phantom presence behind Rachmaninov’s performance of his...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015

NIELSEN Concertos for Flute; Clarinet and Violin

Attention is most surely paid at the start of Nielsen’s Violin Concerto: that startling Bach-like Praeludium over pedal point is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015

MURAIL Le Partage des eaux. Contes cruels

Le partage des eaux (1995-96) is one of Tristan Murail’s best works, so although this first-rate BBC recording was made...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2015

MÉHUL Symphonies Nos 3 - 5

Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) was perhaps the most important opera composer in France in the period before Berlioz, as well as...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2015

MAHLER Symphonies Nos 9 & 10

No previous instalment in Paavo Järvi’s Mahler cycle prepared me for the raw passion of this Ninth. The first movement’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 9

Regular readers will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninths. My list is headed by Abbado and Bernstein. Yours...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2015

LÓPEZ Perú negro. Synesthésie

Peru may not be noted for a plethora of composers working in the Western classical tradition but Jimmy López (b1978)...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015

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