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Balkan Fever

This is fun, primarily because of a touch of ‘premature congratulation’ towards the end of Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. The...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

The Bach Sons

On the face of it, this conspectus of keyboard works by JS Bach’s most talented sons should help the uninitiated...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade BALAKIREV Islamey

The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Borusan is the group of companies that sponsored it) has in its 15 years of...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014

STRAVINNSKY The Rite of Spring. Petrushka

François-Xavier Roth and his highly responsive cohorts give us a strikingly fresh-faced, wonderfully vibrant Petrushka in its original 1911 guise,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

STRAUSS Alpine Symphony

Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is an object lesson in imaginative orchestration, a collaborative musical workout that challenges players, conductor and listeners...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 PROKOFIEV October Cantata (excpts)

This searing live performance of the 13th Symphony was only its second in public and according to the Soviet authorities...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 - 6

Reviewing Gergiev’s previous recordings of these symphonies with the same (but since renamed) orchestra, I summed them up as frustratingly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4

What blessed times these are for Schumannistas. Hard on the heels not only of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s compelling survey of the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

SCHULHOFF Concertos for Piano, Flue & Piano and String Quartet

Here are three substantial concertos from the pen of the Czech-Jewish composer Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942), the earliest being the second...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

RESPIGHI The Birds. Three Botticelli Pictures. Suite

Inquisitive disc-buyers will almost certainly alight on tracks 10 13 of this one. If the Trittico botticelliano and Gli uccelli...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

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