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GRIME Clarinet Concerto. Night Songs. Virga.

In the six years since she first came to prominence, Helen Grime has gone on to write several further works...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

GRIEG Symphony in C. Piano Concerto

‘Must never be performed’ is an obvious red rag to any musical bull and although Grieg’s youthful C minor Symphony...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8

Good as it is in part, José Serebrier’s 2014 Bournemouth Symphony Dvořák Eighth can’t compare with the last version I...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY La Mer. Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which has been associated most recently on disc with its series of Rachmaninov symphonies coupled with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

DALLAPICCOLA Works for Orchestra

As Christoph Schlüren points out in his informative booklet-note, orchestral music occupies a limited place within Dallapiccola’s output – making...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

CLEMENTI Piano Concerto No 3. Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The single extant piano concerto of Clementi is this C major Concerto, and it survives only in a copy in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

Ivor Bolton makes a convincingly grand case for Bruckner’s First as a work of innovative maturity, with no less experience...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a more or less exemplary account of Beethoven’s Second Symphony. The outer movements are swift-moving...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp TAKEMITSU And then I knew 'twas Wind

Debussy’s extraordinary work used to be found in collections of chamber music by his contemporaries and immediate successors. Ravel, Guy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

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