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Lisa Batiashvili: Secret Love Letters

It is often asserted that today’s violin stars lack the personality of their famous forebears. Then again the projection of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2022

Alison Balsom: Quiet City

There’s something intensely evocative about the solo trumpet – a plaintive, plangent, melancholic sound that speaks just as eloquently of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022

Håkan Hardenberger: French Trumpet Concertos

Håkan Hardenberger and Fabien Gabel, himself a former trumpeter, join forces here for a programme of post-war French music, familiar...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022

Creation

Hard to believe Lockenhaus is now into its fifth decade but this festival, founded in 1981 by Gidon Kremer and...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2022

SULLIVAN L’ile Enchantée (John Andrews)

Another generous programme of Sullivan from John Andrews on Dutton, and at first glance it appears as if most of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Lloyd-Gonzalez)

Shostakovich’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies clearly belong together – flipsides of the same coin, the composer wrong-footing the Soviet establishment...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022

SCHUBERT Overtures and Orchestral Works (Holliger)

How best to respond to a musical fragment? The musicologist’s approach is to order the sketches as coherently as possible,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022

SCHMITT Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

Eighty-four down, and still counting. Yet again Hyperion has colonised a corner of the Romantic repertoire that others have not...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022

PETTERSSON Symphony No 15. Viola Concerto

With this release, only four of Allan Pettersson’s symphonies remain for Christian Lindberg to record: Nos 3, 8, 10 and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022

NORDIN Emerging from Currents and Waves

Here is plenty to occupy those prone to speculating on the future of orchestral music. Swedish composer Jesper Nordin (not...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2022

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