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HIND Orchestra and Chamber Music

Rolf Hind’s reputation as a pianist who ventures where others fear to tread is no less evident in his own...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014

HENZE Symphonies Nos 2 & 10

Wergo’s cycle of Henze’s symphonies is now done, and more complete than any rival with its inclusion of the composer’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014

ELGAR Symphony No 2

Daniel Barenboim first recorded Elgar’s great E flat Symphony with the London Philharmonic in 1972 and while the intervening four...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

How disarmingly unforced and personable the Czech Philharmonic sound in the Concerto’s introduction, Jiří Bĕlohlávek providing a quietly authoritative, glowingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014

CASKEN Violin Concerto. Concerto for Orchestra

For those unfamiliar with John Casken’s music, he writes in a manifestly 21st-century style, incorporating elements of expressionism and lyrical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014

BRITTEN. WEINBERG Violin Concertos

Weinberg’s Violin Concerto was composed in 1959, around the time of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1. Its sturdy, unrelenting first...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014

BIZET L’Arlésienne Suites FAURÉ Masques et Bergamasques

Winner of the 2009 Besançon Competition, Kazuki Yamada was just 23 when he was appointed the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 32

Fazil Say, a pianist with a maverick reputation, now takes Beethoven by storm and the result, while unsettling for those...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014

MOZART Adagios and Fugues after JS Bach

After settling in Vienna, heedless of his father’s dire warning, Mozart took every opportunity of impressing the sceptical Leopold with...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014

STRAVINSKY Concerto per due pianoforti soli LISZT Concerto pathetique

This year’s winner of the Strangest Cover Photo Award goes to Neos: six bemused people sit in a section of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014

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