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FALLA El Retablo de Maese Pedro; STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite (Heras-Casado)

The best music effects a kind of time travel on the ear. Turn to the slow movement of the Harpsichord...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 (Inkinen)

Pietari Inkinen has been building an impressive career without the intense media scrutiny accorded some of his Finnish colleagues. While...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024

DELIUS Hassan – Complete incidental music (Phillips)

Delius lovers will already cherish the Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan as extracted and edited by Thomas Beecham for use...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024

BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Isabelle Faust)

Hot on the heels of Baiba Skride’s exhilarating account of Britten’s Violin Concerto comes this one from Isabelle Faust in...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024

BERNSTEIN Serenade WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No 1 (James Ehnes)

I’ve always admired the modesty and truthfulness of James Ehnes as a player – and you can hear that modesty...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)

With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024

BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances (Dausgaard)

Bartók was never fully content with The Wooden Prince and this final revision marks an end to his tinkering. It...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024

JS BACH Violin Concertos (Leonidas Kavakos)

In the booklet notes, Leonidas Kavakos is clearly keen for us to know that he has experimented with playing on...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024

CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'

Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024

ANDRES The Blind Banister

Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024

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