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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 92, 93, 97, 98 & 99

A touching tribute to Colin Davis from the orchestra with which he was latterly most closely associated. Sir Colin was...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2014

WEIR The Vanishing Bridegroom

It is going to be interesting to see how the newly appointed Master of the Queen’s Music responds to the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014

SCHOENBERG Moses and Aron

This CD recording of Schoenberg’s most substantial dramatic work appears in the same year that Welsh National Opera gave the...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014

SCHUBERT Nachtviolen: Songs

With few exceptions, Christian Gerhaher ventures well off the beaten track in this superlative recital centring on the echt Schubertian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 JANÁČEK Jenufa Suite

Manfred Honeck’s handling of the Eighth Symphony’s opening phrases is rapturously beautiful, the cellos truly espressivo, the initial bird-like entry...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Choral Fantasy

To have arrived so soon at the end of this journey seems almost a pity, for the company has been...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

MONTEVERDI Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco (Vespers for the Feast of St Mark)

Appearances can be deceptive, so be advised that this is not yet another version of the 1610 Vespers. These proceedings...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

Nicola Benedetti: Homecoming

Nothing becomes Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy more than those opening chords on sombre wind band that seem to echo the twilight...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos 12 & 13 (chamber versions)

Mozart’s two piano quartets leave you wanting more in that medium, and these chamber-size versions of two 1782 piano concertos...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014

ZEMLINSKY String Quartets Nos 1 & 2

Interesting that Zemlinsky’s First Quartet of 1896 takes on the mantle of Brahms, much as Schoenberg’s first completed D major...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

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