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Characters

‘Characters’ is the title of this collection of mostly concertos, implying that there is no clever musicological thread here; each...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

WEINBERG Symphony No 18. Trumpet Concerto

One of Weinberg’s most Socialist Realist symphonies is here interestingly coupled with the most experimental of his six concertos. Admittedly,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1. The Tempest

The Tempest and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto: an odd coupling but, hey, why not? Tchaikovsky’s emotionally charged symphonic fantasy comes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014

STENHAMMER Serenade. Excelsior!

Wilhelm Stenhammar has never really had his due. Overshadowed by his Nordic contemporaries Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius, his productivity hampered...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite. The Wood-Nymph

Four Legends (from the Kalevala), Lemminkäinen Suite, Lemminkäinen Legends – none of the popular titles for this tetralogy better Sibelius’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7

I was at The Bridgewater Hall last October for the performance captured here on disc (the recording makes use of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies No 6

It was an inspired idea to couple two great Sixth Symphonies that inhabit, respectively, the 19th and 20th centuries, both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

STRAUSS Metamorphosen SCHNYDER Krisis. Psalm

Numerous composers (American and otherwise) have penned tributes to those who died as a result of 9/11, though Daniel Schnyder...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014

NØRGÅRD Symphonies Nos 1 & 8

There is a gulf of some 55 years between Nørgård’s first and latest symphonies. The one nails its colours to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

Brüggen mirrors Mozart’s love of clarinets in the balance at the beginning of No 39, the reverberation of Rotterdam’s De...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2014

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