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PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5. Piano Concerto No 3

If their brutalisation of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto is anything to go by, Valery Gergiev’s partnership with Denis Matsuev threatens...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014

Eventide

The lasting impression that lingers on from this disc is of a perfect blending of eight voices to complement an...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014

JANÁČEK On the overgrown path SCHUMANN Kinderszenen

Marc-André Hamelin’s normally genial features cloud at the description of him as a ‘super virtuoso’. For him such apparent praise...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14

However uncompromising its moral and ideological outlook, the self-evident musical distinction of Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony at once attracted the attention...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 7

This is not the first distinguished Onyx release from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its young Ukrainian conductor but it...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014

PANUFNIK Symphony No 5. Bassoon Concerto

The Sinfonia di Sfere, Panufnik’s Fifth, is of course the main attraction here. It’s a complex work architecturally, the ‘spheres’...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

My reaction when asked to review this disc was a somewhat uncritical ‘hurray’, having immensely enjoyed the first volume of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014

La bella più bella: Songs from early baroque Italy

The songs and madrigals of early-17th-century Italy are dramatic microcosms – arias from unwritten operas that carry the emotional and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2014

JS BACH Lutheran Masses Vol II

One of the most durable virtues of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen is the unfussy fluency of their musical endeavour...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014

WAGNER Siegfried. Götterdämmerung

Daniel Barenboim’s celebration of the Wagner bicentenary culminated in the completion of a new Ring cycle, produced by Guy Cassiers,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014

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