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MOZART Requiem

Purely on grounds of performance alone, this is one of the finest Mozart Requiems of recent years. John Butt brings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

Il Diario di Chiara

Music from the Pietà, and less than a quarter of it by Vivaldi? That’s right. Vivaldi is only the most...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2014

SCHWARZ-SCHILLING Symphony for Strings

Easy to respect but not so easy to hear, the newly formed chamber orchestra Symphonia Momentum shows its commitment to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014

Concertante: Virtuosic Wind Concertos

The subtitle of this enterprising release by rights should be ‘Virtuoso Wind Double Concertos’, since three of the four works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014

WILLIAMSON Complete Piano Concertos

Once riding on a wave of popularity, Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003, Australian born but resident in London for the major part...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2014

TÜÜR Symphony No 7. Piano Concerto

Of all symphonists active in this century, few have impressed me as strongly as the Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür. I say...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014

SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin here offers true ‘Schumann-lite’ in performances that pay close attention to detail but don’t stint on personality. What...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

SCHUMANN 'Zwickauer' Symphony. Overtures

Frank Beermann and his Chemnitz-based Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie have already given us their namesake’s symphonies in lithe and sweet-centred readings (12/10), and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2014

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 - 5

Images of urbane Schubert disappear at the opening fortissimo chord of No 3. Thomas Dausgaard’s fairly swift-moving introduction is neither...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2014

RÓZSA Film Music

Miklós Rózsa’s name is so indelibly linked to historical widescreen epics such as Ben Hur (1959) that it’s a pleasure...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014

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