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Raphaela Gromes: Femmes

‘Femmes’ is Raphaela Gromes’s response to a friend’s suggestion that she record an album of music by women. It’s an...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2023

Altissima: Works For High Baroque Trumpet (Josh Cohen)

Programmes dedicated to the skilled art of solo ‘clarino’ playing – the valveless high trumpet of the Baroque – are...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2023

WILMS The Piano Concertos, Vol 2 (Ronald Brautigam)

For Brahms, the towering example of Beethoven presented an intimidating challenge. Half a century earlier, German-born, Dutch-domiciled Johann Wilhelm Wilms...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Liss. Sanderling)

Two accounts of this great symphony – some would argue (not me) Shostakovich’s greatest – neither about to shake up...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

C & R SCHUMANN Piano Concertos (Beatrice Rana)

Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 3 & 4 (Alsop)

‘Subtle’ is the adjective used on the inlay card for this concluding volume of Mahler’s reorchestrations of Schumann’s symphonies. Well,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023

SANTORO Fantasias Sul América. Sonata For Solo Violin

The title of this series of solo works has nothing to do with South America in the sense that one...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Maria Milstein)

Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2. Symphony No 2 (Andrei Korobeinikov)

Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023

NIELSEN Symophonies Nos 2 & 6 (Luisi)

The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

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