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COPLAND Lincoln Portrait LANG mountain MUHLY Pleasure Ground

These are all live recordings, followed by applause, forming the first CD by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Louis Langrée....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2015

Alfredo Bernardini: Zefiro

Zefiro present oboe concertos by different composers all associated to varying degrees with Venice. The quality of Zefiro’s musicianship and...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015

Comédie et Tragédie, Vol 1

The enterprising Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra known as Tempesta di Mare, founded in 2002, was the brainchild of the American lutenist...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem. Symphony No 4

Captured with thrilling fidelity by the microphones, Spano’s reading of the 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem impresses by dint of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

TORROBA Guitar Concertos

The Spanish composer, conductor and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) was hugely prolific throughout his long life, writing in a...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Rococo Variations

‘Deplorably corrupt’ is how Tchaikovsky’s biographer, David Brown, describes the draconian alterations made to the Rococo Variations by the work’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Final version & reconstruction)

Just in case anyone else felt minded to replicate this Rite of Spring project, the packaging prints an admonitory sentence:...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2015

STRAUSS Don Juan. A Hero's Life

Take a fine orchestra, an effective ‘shoebox’ acoustic (in this case the Herkulessaal in Munich), an expert team of engineers...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015

SILVESTROV Meditation. Spectrums. Symphony No 2.

Especially in the first half of his career, Valentin Silvestrov was fond of calling all manner of music ‘symphony’. In...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2015

SCHNITTKE Symphony No 3

Since its first performance in 1981, Schnittke’s Third Symphony has attracted much attention as well as two recordings, conducted by...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015

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