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RAVEL Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (Trevino)

I think it’s fair to say that I greeted the inaugural Ravel collection from this source (7/21) with ‘modified rapture’....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Isle of the Dead (Wilson)

We might love Rachmaninov for his big tunes but he is also a great master of building epic spans from...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022

MOZART Piano Concerto No 23. Symphony No 40 (Chauvin)

Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge reprise the overture-concerto-symphony formula of their previous Mozart recording (1/22) with a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Bychkov)

The real pleasure here lies with the Czech Philharmonic – something individual, characterful and homespun in a world dominated by...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

KHACHATURIAN The Concertante Works for Piano (Iyad Sughayer)

Khachaturian lost out to himself in the Stalin Prize stakes of 1940. His ambitious Piano Concerto looked like a sure...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022

ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 2, 3 & 7 (Poga)

This release concludes Ondine’s edition of the symphonies by Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) who, born in Latvia and educated in Paris,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022

HELLENDAAL 6 Grand Concertos

I am astounded that on this recording there are only two cellists and a single bassist in the orchestra of...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022

HAYDN Cello Concertos HINDEMITH Trauermusik (Christian Poltéra)

There is of course no way that Christian Poltéra could have known, when he chose to pair the cello concertos...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2022

DVORÁK Legends. Czech Suite (Măcelaru)

Like the Slavonic Dances before them, Dvořák’s Legends sound and feel as if they were born into an orchestra. Piano...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Orchestral works

Only fitting that the ever-resourceful Chineke! should kick off a brand new contract with Decca celebrating Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Listening to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

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