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BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

A film of a symphony in live performance filmed just three years after an audio recording of the same piece...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2 BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1

Guro Kleven Hagen, at 20 years old, already plays with great assurance and true artistry. Her account of the Prokofiev...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 12 - 16

Mahler, Mitropoulos and Bernstein seeded the idea, and now the Norwegian violinist and conductor Terje Tønnesen allows it to blossom...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 - 4

The Prometheus Overture augurs well, a brightly lit performance, unhurried and nicely shaped with unforced accents. Coriolan on the other...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

MOZART Symphony No 29 BEETHOVEN Symphony No 1

The opening chord of Beethoven’s finale is echt Klemperer, weighty, incisive, austere, until, after a spell of mock deliberation, the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

JS BACH Concertos for Two Harpsichords

The two-keyboard idiom only occasionally catches our attention but when it does it’s always original and telling, be it Bach,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2014

Vigilate!

It is rare nowadays for the Monteverdi Choir to venture as early as the English Renaissance; and it is equally...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014

Inspired by Song

In his last release, ‘The Gentleman’s Flute’ (2/11), Stefan Temmingh focused on the kind of music experienced by the middle-class...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014

From Spain to Eternity

Never mind the title: like the Lobo recording from La Grande Chapelle (Lauda, 3/14), this new offering takes its inspiration...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2014

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