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BRUN Symphony No 4. Rhapsody

‘It is not my favourite amongst my symphonies. For the first time, I felt the music of Bruckner “distracting” me;...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

At the turn of the year the BBC broadcast a radio series on Magna Carta which took the Scherzo of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

Turn straight to the Scherzo of Mario Venzago’s Fifth for a Ländler of considerable charm and subtle clumsiness, albeit on...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3

I came to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Bruckner Third with his bravura Schumann symphony cycle singing and dancing inside my head still,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 03/2015

KURPINSKI The Battle of Mozhaysk BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3

Two exceptional recordings taped eight years apart, both live: the Eroica at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in September 2005,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 2

The Swiss-Chinese pianist...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances

Lorenzo Gatto is well equipped to play the Beethoven Concerto. His clear, ringing tone, coupled with an ability to play...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015

WAGNER Gotterdämmerung

The conclusion to Frankfurt’s current Ring presents an unashamedly straightforward reading of the work that will appeal to those who...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut

Given that Jonas Kaufmann has recently taken on the role of Des Grieux, first in London and then in Munich,...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015

POULENC Dialogues des Carmelites

Though hardly a star vehicle, this Dialogues of the Carmelites features four celebrated Gallic sopranos, any one of whom would...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015

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