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FIBICH Symphonic Poems

Zdeněk Fibich’s tone-poems are roughly contemporaneous with Smetana’s and precede D Dvořák's Erben-inspired late masterpieces by a number of years....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

FASCH Quartets and Concertos

This recording should send Baroque music lovers clamouring for more. Although a violinist, Johann Friedrich Fasch wrote ingeniously for wind...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2014

ELGAR Symphony No 1. Cockaigne Overture

Here’s a welcome companion issue to Sakari Oramo’s account of Elgar’s Second Symphony (9/13). If the Finn’s view of its...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6. American Suite

The opening bars of the symphony signal something quite out of the ordinary, the perfect balance of horns and violas,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

Dvořák – In Love?

This documentary by the great Tony Palmer was first shown in 1988 on ITV’s South Bank Show. Its questioning title...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

DUSSEK Piano Concertos

Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) is one of those transitional composers straddling the Classical and Romantic eras overshadowed by the greater...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

DEBUSSY Iberia. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Heinz Holliger brings an infallible ear for timbre to bear on this programme of Debussy, notably, but by no means...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

BRUCKNER Study Symphony

New performances of Anton Bruckner’s ‘Study Symphony’ in F minor hardly grow on trees but this latest instalment of Simone...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

BRIAN Symphonic Movements from 'The Tigers'

It’s not before time that these sparkling performances of the symphonic extracts from Havergal Brian’s surreal, anti-war comic opera The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

BERLIOZ Harold en Italie

The undulating semiquavers on basses and cellos that open Harold en Italie sound rather workaday, certainly in comparison with Sir...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

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