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Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage

Many of these performances warm into truly enjoyable interpretations, though what inspires this slowly-does-it, tentative approach, I’m not certain. Take...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2022

Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos

The title of this album, ‘British Piano Concertos’, may be self-effacing but the contents are anything but, with five of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022

WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)

Weinberg’s recorded coverage expands apace, this release featuring three of his concertante works in readings that eschew the asperities of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022

STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)

It is not difficult to guess why Zygmunt (sometimes Sigismond) Stojowski’s Symphony in D minor, Op 21 (1898) failed to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)

The second instalment of Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle is a pairing of the Second and Fourth Symphonies with a...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)

An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2022

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Alexandre Kantorow)

The prospect of a recording of any of Saint-Saëns’s works for piano and orchestra is always a delightful one. You...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022

RIHM #39 & #40: Sphäre Nach Studie. Stabat Mater. Male über Male 2. Jagden und Formen

In our polystylistic age, has any major composer been more polystylistic than Wolfgang Rihm? On the turn of a dime,...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022

RAUTAVAARA Lost Landscapes: Works For Violin and Orchestra (Simone Lamsma)

Here we have ‘late-period Rautavaara’ – music written after the composer’s aortic dissection of 2004 and the extensive convalescence that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022

PEJACEVIC Piano Concerto Op 33. Symphony Op 41 (Peter Donohoe)

Though not world-premiere recordings – both the Symphony in F sharp minor (1916‑17) and the Piano Concerto in G minor...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022

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