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DESSNER St Carolyn by the Sea GREENWOOD Suite from 'There Will be Blood'

The incidence of composers at home in both classical and rock genres is hardly a recent phenomenon, yet the ease...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Mario Venzago’s vision of a leaner, trimmer Bruckner – with big-boned solemnity discreetly airbrushed away – aims to repoint the...

Reviewed in issue 05/2014

BRAUNFELS Piano Concerto

The music of Walter Braunfels (1882-1954), half-Jewish and ardently Catholic, disappeared from view in the middle of the last century,...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 DEBUSSY La Mer

With all of the recordings of the Brahms and Debussy pieces, might the main attraction here be Janet Baker? No....

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014

BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

Berlioz’s symphonic summit between Dionysus and Apollo has always posed its interpreters problems. Even in the face of much formidable...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

MOZART Piano Concerto No 24 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3

Even if the catalogue was in a less parlous state than it currently is where recordings of Beethoven’s Third Piano...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2014

ENESCU Symphonie Concertante BARTÓK Divertimento

If there’s one significant composer who needs a little help from his friends, it’s George Enescu. And by ‘friends’ I...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Violin Concertos BWV1041 & 4102 VASKS Violin Concerto

The name of Renaud Capuçon is not the first that would spring to mind when searching for recordings of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2014

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburgs are billed here as music ‘open as ever to new historically informed interpretations, as this set demonstrates’, so...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2014

ANDREAE Symphony. Li-Tai-Pe. Concertino for Oboe

This Guild series devoted to the Swiss conductor-composer Volkmar Andreae (1879-1962) is proving so comprehensive that it’s not always easy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014

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