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SCHUMANN Symphonies 2 & 4 (Gardiner. Herreweghe)

Two veteran conductors from the period-instrument movement revisit Schumann’s symphonies with modern-instrument orchestras. Coincidentally, in reviewing Philippe Herreweghe’s earlier traversals...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019

PROKOFIEV Sinfonia Concertante. Cello Sonata

These exceptionally beautiful reappraisals are likely to divide listeners. Bruno Philippe’s command of the instrument can scarcely be gainsaid –...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019

MESSIAEN LAscension, Le Tombeau resplendissant (Järvi)

The received wisdom is that Messiaen grew up at the keyboard, so to speak, but according to his teacher Marcel...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Fischer)

Rather as he did for his controversial (and somewhat disappointing) account of Das Lied von der Erde, Adám Fischer offers...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019

LÓPEZ BELLIDO Symphonic Canvas

In his detailed booklet note, Jimmy López Bellido writes that the First Symphony (2016) was commissioned as part of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019

GLASS Symphony No 5 (Wachner)

Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in August 1999 as a latter-day ‘Ode to Joy’ to mark the close of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2019

DVORÁK; MARTINU Piano Concertos (Ivo Kahánek)

Among Bohuslav Martinů’s five piano concertos, his Fourth (1956) is arguably the most original and inventive, and certainly the most...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Honeck)

Manfred Honeck’s interpretation of the three-movement version of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony is one of the most distinctive to have appeared...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)

With this final instalment of Thielemann’s Bruckner series with the Staatskapelle Dresden, a complete cycle of the composer’s numbered symphonies...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Jordan)

This is the final instalment of Philippe Jordan’s Beethoven cycle recorded live with the Vienna Symphony in the spring of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2019

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