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HELLAWELL Up by the Roots

As a title, Wild Flow might look like another well-meaning contribution to the aesthetics of Extinction Rebellion. However, the 20-minute,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020

DICKINSON Chamber and Instrumental Works

Arnold Whittall noted, in his Contemporary Composers feature on Peter Dickinson (10/18), that a recording of the Violin Sonata (1961)...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN Sonatas and Songs (Christian Poltéra)

When both Schumann and Brahms were so enthusiastic about the instrument, cellists can rightly mourn that Schumann didn’t leave more...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020

ALWYN String Quartets Nos 6-9 (Villiers Quartet)

This ‘most intimate of mediums’ was how William Alwyn described the string quartet and it was an idiom he constantly...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Feltz; Gergiev; Nézet Séguin)

One day in 1909, Mahler arrived at the new offices of his publisher in a terrible flap. He’d jumped off...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2020

Music for my Love, Vol 3

Vol 3 of Toccata Classics’ enormously impressive, moving commemorative project (honouring Yodit Tekle, pictured on the cover; for the background,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020

VLADIGEROV Bulgarian Suite. Symphonic Bulgarian Dances

I do hope that this fine new recording will mean that Pancho Vladigerov’s music becomes better known. There are recordings,...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020

SIBELIUS Symphony No 2. King Christian II Suite (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony and En saga (3/19) received a string of accolades following its release last...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Muti)

There are American ensembles with a more sustained Shostakovich tradition than the Chicago Symphony but the present recording, taken from...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2020

SEREBRIER Symphonic BACH Variations

While consistently light-textured in its scoring for string orchestra, each movement of José Serebrier’s Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) has...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

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