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PÄRT Lamentate. Piano Works (Onute Grazinyte)

This is a wondrously thought-provoking anthology of Pärt’s work. It begins with the non-concerto for piano and orchestra Lamentate, the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2020

MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral works Vol 2 (Hobson)

Moszkowski is best known for his myriad short piano pieces. Great pianists of the past from Rachmaninov to Horowitz had...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony (Soddy)

The Turangalîla discography is now so extensive that any addition needs to offer something distinctive. Recorded live in Mannheim, this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

HINDEMITH Kammermusik (Eschenbach)

Unlike the three concertos on the first volume of Eschenbach’s survey (7/20), those on its successor, Nos 4-7, tend to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

HAYDN Symphony No 100. Nelson Mass (Christophers)

Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston present a neatly turned-out Military Symphony, closer to the urbanity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020

DELIBES Balet Suites (Järvi)

‘Swan Lake is mere rubbish in comparison with Sylvia’, Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck in 1877, having just heard...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020

CLYNE Mythologies

Mark Pullinger wrote movingly of Anna Clyne’s cello concerto DANCE (2019) in the August issue, concluding that it ‘should make...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

BEN-HAIM Music of Israel (Welber)

It’s good to see the music of the Munich-born Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim receiving increasing attention from record companies. The...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020

Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré

Unlike Leonard Bernstein’s famous recording of these same two late Beethoven quartets with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic (DG,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Triple Concerto (Martin Helmchen)

Unless a Choral Fantasy is waiting in the wings, this new disc rounds out Martin Helmchen’s collaboration with Andrew Manze...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020

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