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NORMAN Sustain (Dudamel)

Andrew Norman burst upon the scene a few years ago with the three-movement, 45-minute-long symphony Play (2013, rev 2016), which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Petrenko)

This is one of those discs that commands respect (this conductor is pretty much always a safe investment) without setting...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020

MOZART Youth Symphonies (von der Goltz)

The catalogue numbers may suggest otherwise, but this disc gathers the four earliest known symphonies by the young Mozart, along...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

IVES Symphonies 3 & 4 (Tilson Thomas)

‘Gloriously gut-punching’ was a San Francisco critic’s verdict on the live performance of Ives’s Fourth Symphony used for this disc....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2020

HANCOCK Raptures (Parikian)

With his stylistic roots in the scores of John Williams and Elmer Bernstein it seems hardly surprising that Stuart Hancock...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

GINASTERA Harp Concerto. Variaciones concertantes (Sidsel Walstad)

There aren’t very many concertos for harpists to choose from – and even fewer of truly high quality – which...

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

FINGER Music for European Courts and Concerts (Rawson)

It’s been a good year for Gottfried Finger, the Moravian-born composer who moved to London in the 1680s and made...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020

ELGAR Cello Concerto (Sheku Kanneh-Mason)

What is it with Elgar and young musicians? The Violin Concerto found Yehudi Menuhin and Nigel Kennedy caught in the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2020

DOHNÁNYI Symphony No 1 (Paternostro)

I’ve asked this before, but is any composer since Haydn better at writing a humorous finale than Ernst von Dohnányi?...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS Double Concerto SCHUMANN Violin Concerto (Manze)

I think it’s safe to say that Schumann’s Violin Concerto is no longer considered a drab, sub-par product of the...

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

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