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BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Vol 1 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Did any composer make a bigger splash with their Op 1 than Beethoven? Taking what had hitherto been a small-scale...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 3 (Casals Quartet)

As Teodor Currentzis remarked about recording Beethoven’s symphonies, there is a danger, even in sets of such exceptional character as...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020

WEINBERG Symphonies. Chamber Symphonies (Duczmal-Mróz)

Whether or not the music of Mieczysław Weinberg makes further inroads in terms of actual performance, his recorded representation shows...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

TÜÜR Mythos

It’s almost an indulgence to put three such significant, non-concertante orchestral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, played by a virtuoso orchestra,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1 (Baiba Skride) TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

A cultivated rather than hell-for-leather Tchaikovsky Fifth was the first audio-only recording project of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO years (Orfeo, 10/09)....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Storgårds)

Each time I hear the opening of this symphony – in filmic terms a long slow pan across the frozen...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

POULENC Piano Concerto. Concert champêtre

The incomparable Mark Bebbington, to whom British music owes more than a tip of the hat, turns his attention to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24 (Richard-Hamelin)

In these unworldly times of enforced social lockdown it’s interesting what gives emotional succour. I’d been revelling in the discovery...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 23 (Ben Kim)

Ben Kim (b1983, Portland, Oregon) studied with Leon Fleisher and has been a protégé of Martha Argerich. His recording activity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Netopil)

Here’s a Mahler Sixth that comes with its own historical context. Unlikely as it may now seem, Essen was where...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020

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