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SCHUBERT Symphoneis Nos 2 & 6 (Gardner)

The opening salvo in Edward Gardner’s Schubert symphony edition (3/19) boded well. Its successor lives up to expectations. These are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Behzod Abduraimov)

The two masterpieces Rachmaninov composed at his summer mansion in Lucerne in the mid-1930s make an obvious coupling and have...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2020

PROKOFIEV Symphonies 1 & 5 (Søndergård)

All seven Prokofiev symphonies are getting performances these days and Thomas Søndergård has announced plans to present a complete cycle...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

NEUWIRTH Miramondo Multiplo

Last December Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando was, indefensibly, only the first full opera by a woman on the Vienna State...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39-41 (Minasi)

‘The most limpid and lyrical music in existence’ was Eric Blom’s verdict on Symphony No 39 in his Master Musicians...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020

MOZART Haffner Serenade. Ein musikalischer Spaß

This extremely well-filled SACD presents the heftiest of Mozart’s Salzburg serenades along with an associated march and the evergreen Musical...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020

MIHAJLOVIC Memento - Orchestral Works

That Serbia has produced no composer of international standing this past half century makes one wonder whether different geopolitical factors...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

MAW Spring Music. Voices of Memory. Sonata for Solo Violin

This is a terrific disc. It is a little over 10 years since the death of Nicholas Maw (1935-2009), one...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

KÕRVITS Hymn to the Nordic Lights

Tõnu Kõrvits is an impressively unpredictable composer. Just when you think that the very brief Azure (2016 17) is becoming...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto. String Sextet (Andrew Haveron)

Andrew Haveron joins very select, indeed mighty company – from Heifetz to Mutter and beyond – in the Korngold Concerto....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

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