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ARRIAGA Complete String Quartets

Not knowing anything about this repertoire or the personality behind it, one’s initial reaction is a unique convergence of musical...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014

WALTON Symphony No 1. Violin Concerto

Edward Gardner presides over blisteringly eloquent and splendidly unbuttoned accounts of both these Walton masterworks, the First Symphony’s vehement opening...

Reviewed in issue 07/2014

JS BACH Orchestral Suites and Concertos

Borrowing, adapting, transcribing: Bach was a master at this game. So why would he, who borrowed from others and from...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Stravinsky’s famous memorial to Debussy may be the title-track here but the main interest in this vividly played programme lies...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014

Tzimon Barto: Paganini Variations, Paganini Rhapsody

All six Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a comparative rarity on disc. Gary Graffman’s 1959 traversal (Sony, 4/65) is brilliantly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014

Basso Bailando

'Basso bailando’, or music for ‘dancing bass’, features the instrument in a programme where the emphasis is on music with...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014

VIVALDI The Four Seasons

Having recently reviewed Erik Bosgraaf’s recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in these pages (Brilliant Classics, 4/14), two more are...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 7. Piano Concerto No 3

Even those who can’t get enough Tchaikovsky might not find a convincing case for these two might-have-beens: the Symphony No...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Symphony of Psalms

Admirers of Leonard Bernstein have never had it so good, not least the many fans of his ‘tumultuous’ way with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

SPOHR Clarinet Concertos

Missing autographs raise problems. Three of these concertos survive only through manuscript copies printed or handwritten, No 4 the lucky...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014

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