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David Childs: The Symphonic Euphonium II

Vaughan Williams wrote his Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orchestra for Philip Catelinet, who gave the premiere...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020

The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque

Who’s the one demanding respect here? Well, it’s Telemann, who stood at the font for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. But...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020

Emmanuel Pahud: Dreamtime

This album’s title, ‘Dreamtime’, suggests a programme of quiet listening – a slew of soothing adagios, perhaps – but it’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker (Jurowski)

Santa’s sleigh may have delivered this disc a fraction too late for our December issue, but then The Nutcracker isn’t...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Jansons)

What you might call the Mahlerisation of Shostakovich continues its grim march onwards. Forty and fifty years ago, it was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

SERKSNYTE Orchestral and Choral Works

Lithuanian new music is coming into its own, an impressive release of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (5/19) now followed by one of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2020

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 (Lortie)

Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos have been well served on disc in recent years, not least by Bertrand Chamayou’s double Gramophone Award...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

RÖNTGEN Piano Concertos Nos 3, 6 & 7 (Oliver Triendl)

The German-born Dutch composer Julius Röntgen was nothing if not prolific. In addition to some 25 symphonies and three concertos...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

RAVEL Jeux de Miroirs (Javier Perianes)

Fine though it is, this disc suffers, perhaps, from being too self-consciously programmed. Using what is effectively a palindromic structure,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020

PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Fischer)

Thierry Fischer pairs two contrasting Prokofiev film scores in this Utah Symphony release: the gritty, rarely heard cantata Alexander Nevsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020

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