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WAGNER The Ring – An Orchestral Adventure

In January Kristjan Järvi released, with his young Baltic Sea Philharmonic, a recording of his own reduction of Tchaikovsky’s Swan...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. The Nutcracker

A Nutcracker is for life, not just for Christmas. Or perhaps not. Valery Gergiev has abandoned his 1998 Philips recording...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

VON REZNICEK Violin Concerto. Till Eulenspiegel

The works on this disc – part of a leisurely continuing series from CPO – date from the period between...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet

Norwegian orchestras have been here before…up to a point. Mariss Jansons set down two suites from Romeo and Juliet with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016

MOZART Complete Violin Concertos

Mozart’s violin concertos are never far from the centre of any violinist’s repertoire. Written while the composer was still a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 25

Hot on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s vivacious K453 (complete with his own cheeky cadenzas) comes Uchida’s latest instalment in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016

Music from the Motion Pictures; MORRICONE 60 Years of Music

Ennio Morricone attended the same high school as the director Sergio Leone, a handy link that stood them both in...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2016

MACMILLAN Violin Concerto. Symphony No 4

Now approaching 60, James MacMillan is surely the most recorded of contemporary British composers and this new Onyx disc couples...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2016

JONGEN Symphonie Concertante

Jongen’s friend Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that the Symphonie concertante might better be called a symphony for two orchestras, since...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016

HAYDN Symphony No 6. Cello Concerto No 1. Harpsichord Concrto

If I had heard these performances in concert I would doubtless have enjoyed them with few reservations. The 20-strong Australian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016

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