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BIRTWISTLE Responses, Sweet Orders. Gawain's Journey

Harrison Birtwistle’s creativity into his mid-eighties has seen numerous significant works, not least a second piano concerto. Responses, Sweet Disorder...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

BEN-HAIM; BLOCH; KORNGOLD Cello Concertos (Wallfisch)

The subtitle of this excellent disc of cello concertos by exiled Jewish composers, ‘Voices in the Wilderness’ (almost the title...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Haitink. Suzuki)

Addressing a ‘friendly account’ of the Missa solemnis conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (6/19), Lindsay Kemp found that it left much...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Ronald Brautigam)

Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEAMISH; JOLAS; NEUWIRTH Trumpet Concertos

Sally Beamish’s Trumpet Concerto (2003) was inspired by Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Of course you would choose a trumpet – over...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2020

BARBER; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)

Gramophone has already singled out this young man as One to Watch (8/19) and from the shaping of his solo...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2020

Escales: French Orchestral Works

‘Let’s hope it’s not a one-off’, wrote Richard Bratby at the close of his review (10/19) of John Wilson’s recording...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020

WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer (Minkowski)

If your production concept for Wagner’s ‘Romantic horror’ takes you down the reasonable route that this is a show in...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2020

VIVALDI Jupiter (Thomas Dunford)

For its mix of irrelevance and pretentiousness (‘music is the homeland of infinite possibility, freedom and sublimated time’), Alpha’s perfunctory...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2020

VERDI Le trouvère (Abbado)

This is Verdi’s Il trovatore and it is not Verdi’s Il trovatore. That’s not just because this is the 1857...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2020

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