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SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht. Chamber Symphony No 2

Coupling Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht with his Second Chamber Symphony brings out contrasts as great as any this always provocative composer...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2014

RÖNTGEN Cello Concertos

Fourteen sonatas, three concertos and five works for solo cello show what a presence the instrument was in Julius Röntgen’s...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014

RESPIGHI Complete Orchestral Music Vol 4

Volume 4 in Francesco La Vecchia’s ambitious Respighi series for Brilliant Classics launches in crisply invigorating style with the irresistible...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014

Thomas Zehetmair plays Ravel & Debussy

Starting as the impassioned solo violinist in a smoky, seductive performance of Ravel’s Tzigane, Thomas Zehetmair then conducts the Orchestre...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin. Rapsodie Espagnole. Boléro

During his tenure at the helm of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève brought his natural exuberance and taste...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

‘The most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today joins forces with “magician-maestro” Gustavo Dudamel,’ trumpet the critics,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Another take on Mussorgsky’s Pictures – and it would seem that the Slovak Peter Breiner (b1957) doesn’t do things by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 19, 20, 23 & 27

Even in an age when Mozart’s final concerto seems to be shedding its valedictory associations, Ronald Brautigam’s approach to the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Mendelssohn performed in Birmingham several times during the 1830s and ’40s – Elijah was composed for the Birmingham Festival –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014

LIGETI Violin Concerto. San Francisco Polyphony

The arrow-driven harmonic certainties of Jonathan Nott and the Berlin Philharmonic (in Teldec’s Ligeti Project, 8/02 – nla) get straight...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014

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