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Music For A New Century

As album titles go, ‘Music for a New Century’ offers a varied if somewhat uneven snapshot of new music composed...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2023

Mozart’s Mannheim; SCHMITTBAUR Symphonies (Ehrhardt)

The historically valuable DG ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ release arrives swathed in a robe of academic authority. ‘Mozart’s correspondence reveals how he...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023

Christian Li: Discovering Mendelssohn

I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023

WALTON Violin Concerto RESPIGHI Violin Sonata (Liya Petrova)

What a shrewd coupling: seemingly unlikely bedfellows united not just by dint of having both been written in Italy (the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

TAKEMITSU Spectral Canticle

These belles quarts d’heure follow a tried-and-tested recipe, coming out a little differently each time. On a blind tasting you...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Nézet-Séguin)

I would not have had Nézet-Séguin down as a natural Sibelian, and I would have been completely wrong. Too few...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14. Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva (Storgårds)

With Shostakovich’s word-setting what happens between the words is, more than with any other composer I know (with the exception...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 (Noseda)

Noseda served part of his apprenticeship under Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre, and his concerts as principal conductor of the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2023

PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement. Symphony No 1 (Jeneba Kanneh-Mason)

It’s strange, but after decades of neglect the music of Florence Price seems uncannily familiar. The soulful themes with their...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 23 & 27 (Elizabeth Sombart)

'Pass over Sombart’ was Jed Distler’s verdict on the French pianist’s Beethoven concertos in December 2020. In the company of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

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