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STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie (Jurowski)

Only four years after the release of his thrilling live LPO recording of Strauss’s Alpensinfonie, here comes Vladimir Jurowski with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW21

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ticciati)

This is very much in keeping with the impression I have always had of Robin Ticciati’s work: exhaustively prepared, immaculately...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW21

POULENC Double Concerto SAINT-SAËNS Le carnaval des animaux (Leguay)

This is a album of great charm, though it’s very much aimed at a French-speaking audience, which inevitably will limit...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW21

Karen Gomyo: A Piazzolla Trilogy

Unlike many classical performers who enjoy a brief dalliance with Piazzolla’s music, the violinist Karen Gomyo seems to be in...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW21

PÄRT Tabula Rasa (Renaud Capuçon)

It’s difficult in many ways to come up with anything but lyrical adjectives when confronted with playing of this quality....

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW21

NØRGÅRD; SAARIAHO 'Remembering' Cello Concertos (Jakob Kullberg)

Aleksi Barrière’s booklet introduction refers to the concerto as ‘a musical dramatisation of the encounter of an individual soloist with...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW21

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39, 40 & 41 (Manacorda)

An energetic trio of performances that lends credence to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s notion concerning Mozart’s last three symphonies, that they were...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW21

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 25 (Jeremy Denk)

The first thing you notice at the outset of the C major Concerto (K503) – in fact at the opening...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW21

Zal: The Music of Milosz Magin

Although remembered primarily for his Chopin recordings, Miosz Magin (1929‑99) focused increasingly on composition after settling in Paris in 1960....

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW21

KAPUSTIN Piano Concerto No 4. Concerto for Violin & Piano. Chamber Symphony (Frank Dupree)

Nikolai Kapustin died in July last year at the age of 83 (his wife died on the day of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW21

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