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SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Although not trumpeted anywhere on the sleeve, the booklet-notes claim Linus Roth’s recording as ‘the original echt Tchaikovsky version’ of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto. Symphony No 2

The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017

SCHULHOFF Forbidden Music

Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

REGER Violin Concerto

This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

PINTSCHER Bereshit. Uriel. Songs from Solomon's Garden

I’d read chatter on the internet talking up Matthias Pintscher’s 2012 Bereshit, his 30-minute composition for large ensemble, as a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

Pictures at an exhibition grace the cover of this Pictures at an Exhibition, the result of a collaboration between Gustavo...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 02/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Casadesus)

In November 2016 Mahler’s manuscript score of the Resurrection sold for the highest sum ever paid for such a document....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017

GURETZKY Cello Concertos

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen is no joking matter. Named after the musicians that gave London’s first public concerts...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017

Sol Gabetta: Live

Sol Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto (1930 55), which over a 25 year period grew from a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

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