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BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Sitkovetsky Piano Trio)

Beethoven’s three Op 1 Trios – surely the greatest opus 1 in musical history – are the work of a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023

Linus Roth: SamBach

JS Bach’s music continues to inspire all manner of innovative arrangements and reworkings, with examples from the past decade or...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023

Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols

Performing ‘light’ (for want of a better term) music on period instruments is an idea whose time has come. Following...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2023

'Sir Adrian Boult'

More Boult treasures from the radio archives, the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023

WEINBERG Concertinos. Symphony No 7 (Grossmann)

In 1948 Weinberg shared the fate of his fellow composers in the Soviet Union, being castigated for supposed aesthetic sins...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023

TABAKOVA Orpheus' Comet. Earth Suite. Concertos

Recorded in September 2022 (the concluding Cello Concerto at a live concert in The Bridgewater Hall), early into Dobrinka Tabakova’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023

SANTORO Symphony No 8. Cello Concerto (Marina Martins)

This entry in Naxos’s survey of Claudio Santoro’s symphonies and orchestral music brings us to the 1960s and the Brazilian...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023

RESPIGHI Feste Romane. Fontane di Roma. Pini di Roma (Treviño)

Respighi’s obsession with the ‘Eternal City’ is writ spectacularly large in his three symphonic evocations and maybe in some subliminal...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (Wilson)

French music has long featured prominently in John Wilson’s game plan. His previous all-Ravel miscellany won plaudits, notwithstanding a curiously...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023

NORGARD Symphony No 8 (Storgards)

Sakari Oramo may have made the first recording of Per Nørgård’s Symphony No 8 with the Vienna Philharmonic – and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023

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