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BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 DEAN Piano Concerto (Jonathan Biss)

In 2015 Jonathan Biss asked five stylistically diverse composers to write concertos that respectively responded to each of Beethoven’s five....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

ALBERGA Orchestral Works

There are not many successful works for string quartet and orchestra – the concertos by Martinů and Benjamin Lees; best...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

AHO Guitar Concerto. Quintet for Horn. String Quartet (Storgårds)

Kalevi Aho has over 40 concertos to his credit, for every standard orchestral instrument except piccolo, bass trombone, celesta and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Mythos - Schubert & Loewe (Konstantin Krimmel)

The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel (b1993) has been quietly collecting excellent reviews in these pages ever since the release...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024

CHAKER Radio Afloat. Vigil

Drawing from numerous genres but free from many of their constrictions, the alt-classical-world-music-jazz pieces coming out of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2024

MOSS Unseen Paths

Shortly before his death, Lawrence K Moss (1927-2022) had the good fortune to learn that a number of his works...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2024

FOSS Symphony No 1. Renaissance Concerto. Three American Pieces. Ode

This entertaining album was the offspring of a concert given at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the centenary of Lukas Foss...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Brahms - Reimagined Orchestrations

Listening to these polished performances, I marvel that the Kansas City Symphony was founded as recently as 1981. Kudos, then,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024

SCHUMANN String Quartets, Op 41 Nos 1-3 (Doric Quartet)

Of all the indisputably great composers, Schumann has had to contend with more brickbats than most. Now we’ve finally scotched...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011

Urlicht: Songs of Death and Resurrection

Samuel Hasselhorn’s first orchestral release, this album follows his inaugural instalment of the ambitious ‘Schubert 200 Project’ (Harmonia Mundi, 11/23)....

Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024

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