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NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto (Shifrin)

Because Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto is sparsely scored for two bassoons, two horns, snare drum and string section, the music readily...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018

KEMPER Mythical Spaces

Despite its ungenerous playing time, this is an intriguing disc of electroacoustic music. Steven Kemper (b1981) is Assistant Professor of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 'From the New World' (Shelley)

Themes of migration, border crossing and leaving old worlds behind while anticipating new worlds up ahead bind the two seemingly...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2018

DIAMOND Symphony No 6. Music for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

David Diamond composed at least 12 symphonies, though withdrew an early single-movement essay (1933), replacing it with a different ‘No...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra: Celebrating 150 Years

This modern history in sound of the Tonhalle begins in December 1942. On the podium is Volkmar Andreae, leading an...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2018

La Venezia di Anna Maria

The top soloists of Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà – the convent, orphanage and music school where Vivaldi spent a significant...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Oboe Concerto. Piano Concerto

I was very much taken with Peter Oundjian’s live pairing of Vaughan Williams’s Fourth and Fifth symphonies (5/12), and the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018

TARP Orchestral Works Vol 1

Svend Erik Tarp was a contemporary of Vagn Holmboe and Herman D Koppel, the generation of Danish composers who came...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2018

STRAUSS Macbeth. Don Juan. Tod und Verklärung (Karabits)

Though one of Germany’s oldest orchestras, the Staatskapelle Weimar has never been a major presence on disc. Just over a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2018

RHEINBERGER; SCHOLZ Piano Concertos (Callaghan)

I first made the acquaintance of Rheinberger, born six years after Brahms, through his organ sonatas, and it is in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2018

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