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WEINBERG Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Krimer)

From their opus numbers you would imagine that Weinberg’s four chamber symphonies are late works. In fact the first three...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2020

Vivaldi con amore

Beyond reissues, the Canadian period-instrument orchestra Tafelmusik have been conspicuously quiet in the recordings domain in recent years, despite having...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2020

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies 3 & 4 (Brabbins)

The rediscovery of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies seems to be going from strength to strength these days – and with Andrew...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2020

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1 (George Li)

George Li’s first disc for Warner Classics (10/17) was one which, with a few reservations, I felt marked an impressive...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2020

STRAUSS Don Quixote. Don Juan (Petrenko. Barenboim)

I gave a warm welcome to the first instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Strauss series with the Oslo Philharmonic (8/19), and...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2020

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (Emelyanychev)

David Zinman led the way; now here is Maxim Emelyanychev waltzing through the ‘Great’ C major with all the repeats...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 1. Carnival of the Animals (Fischer)

Saint-Saëns was just 15 when he wrote his A major Symphony (1850), and while it’s not notably inventive, the workmanship...

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

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 80, 81 & 99. L'Impatiente

Can it really be only four years since Haydn’s Symphony No 81 finally appeared in a period-instrument recording? And can...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

HAAPANEN Flute Concerto (Yuki Koyama)

Among the most prominent of younger Finnish composers, Perttu Haapanen (b1972) now has a substantial catalogue and this Ondine release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

ELLER Symphonic Poems

Ondine’s traversal of orchestral music by Heino Eller (1887-1970), in the company of Olari Elts with the Estonian National Symphony...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

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