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MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Kossenko)

Having created a work as perfect as the Italian Symphony, most composers would have sat happily back and thought ‘job...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023

RAUTAVAARA. MARTINŮ Piano Concertos Nos 3 (Olli Mustonen)

Although written half a century apart, the Third Piano Concertos by Martinů and Rautavaara have enough in common, conceptually and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023

MAHLER; STRAUSS; WAGNER 'Liebestod'

The topic of love and death unifies the works on this disc, yielding a programme that sits better conceptually than...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023

FAGERLUND Terral. Strings to the Bone. Chamber Symphony

In the best of Sebastian Fagerlund’s music there is plenty of interest (and importance) happening beneath a lucid surface. Structurally,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023

DUTILLEUX Tout un monde lointain DUSAPIN Outscape

Having impressed with his pairing of Dvořák and Martinů (7/21), Victor Julien-Laferrière turns to French concertos for what proves a...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023

CZERNY Piano Concertinos (Rosemary Tuck)

At the risk of making a weak (but nevertheless apt) joke, Czerny did rather churn it out. One has to...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

COATES Orchestral Works Vol 3 (Wilson)

Welcome to the third volume of the music of Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, the second...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Shani)

This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Dausgaard. Poschner)

These releases of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony offer a fascinating contrast, BIS’s recording giving us the well-known second version of the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2023

BRAHMS The Four Symphonies (Sanderling)

This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023

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