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SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé

Following on from her well-regarded recording of Schmitt’s Antoine et Cléopâtre and Le palais hanté (Naxos 11/15), JoAnn Falletta now...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

PETTERSSON Symphony No 12 'The Dead in the Square'

Each instalment of Christian Lindberg’s Pettersson survey has been much anticipated and the release of Pettersson’s sole choral symphony (and,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN Symphonies Vol 9 - L'Addio

Haydn’s early musical instance of ‘industrial action’ may have made the Farewell (No 45, 1772) one of the most famous...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

HAYDN Paris Symphonies (Boyd)

The documentation makes no reference to these being live recordings but the atmosphere of the recorded sound gives a very...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021

GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 2 (Bollon)

‘The mighty king of dissonance’: that, bizarrely enough, is how the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick described Karl Goldmark, and when...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021

GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F (Kevin Cole)

The present recording of Gershwin’s Concerto in F is the first to use the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

ELGAR; FARR Cello Concertos (Sébastien Hurtaud)

Three of Gareth Farr’s great-great-uncles fought and died in the First World War. The New Zealand composer’s rhapsodic, darkly coloured...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

COPLAND Clarinet Concerto STRAUSS Duet-Concertino

The four works on this release, two of them showcasing the talents of the late Ernst Ottensamer, were all composed...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto after Op 25. Haydn Variations

Mindful of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1937 orchestration of Brahms’s Op 25 Piano Quartet, Austrian composer Richard Dünser was initially ambivalent about...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Joseph Moog)

Joseph Moog, Nicholas Milton and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie follow up their distinctive recording of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto (2/18)...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

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