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SANTORO Symphony Nos 5 & 7 'Brasília'

As well as being one of the most significant Brazilian composers of the 20th century, Cláudio Santoro (1919 89) was...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022

RAVEL La valse & Other Works (Oramo)

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Ravel’s orchestral reimaginings of his piano originals is that both forms retain their own...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos. Capriccio Brillant (Lars Vogt)

Mendelssohn performed by a chamber orchestra and directed from the keyboard always looks like an enticing proposition. And so it...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Bychkov)

Whatever weight you place on Mahler’s Bohemian and Moravian connections, his discography contains surprisingly little that can be described as...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022

COOPER Continuum

As society finally takes its first cautious steps towards a brave new post-pandemic world, more and more musicians are sharing...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Roth)

François-Xavier Roth’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh is the first instalment in a new cycle of the symphonies being recorded by...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 5 & 0 (Boris Giltburg)

I first heard Boris Giltburg shortly after his victory in 2013 at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, when Marin Alsop, who...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2022

ARNOLD; GIPPS; SCHÖNBERGER Horn Concertos (Ben Goldscheider)

The horn concertos by Malcolm Arnold (No 2, 1956) and Ruth Gipps (1969) have appeared on disc before, in scintillating...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022

Norma Fisher at the BBC Vol 3

Michelle Assay was full of enthusiasm for the first two volumes of Norma Fisher’s BBC broadcasts. Here’s a musician who...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022

ZANDONAI Francesca da Rimini (Rizzi)

‘What we’re really watching is a gathering of the damned’, writes Christof Loy in a note for his extraordinary Berlin...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2022

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