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MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

These recordings were made during a 2015 tour celebrating the 40th birthday of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the 25th...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2016

MOZART Oboe Concerto. Oboe Quintet

As a showcase of Mozart’s works featuring a solo oboe, this should serve well enough. Frank de Bruine has long...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2016

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

As they did in concert, the London Symphony Orchestra offer Mendelssohn’s first and second thoughts for the third movement of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016

MAXWELL DAVIES Concert Overture. Last Door of Light

Two substantial late works of Maxwell Davies here receive first recordings. Ebb of Winter (2013) is designated a concert overture,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2016

D'INDY Symphony No 2

The d’Indy discography has become increasingly distinguished of late, largely thanks to Rumon Gamba’s comprehensive survey of the orchestral works...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2016

GRANADOS Elisenda. Liliana. Suite oriental

Softly chiming horns open this final instalment in Naxos’s three-disc series of rare orchestral works by Enrique Granados. They launch...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2016

GOETZ Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Hermann Goetz (1840 76) enjoyed a tragically brief, Mozartian lifespan. Though his music was quickly forgotten after his death, it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016

ELGAR Symphony No 1

Hot on the heels of the Germans – Barenboim’s Staatskapelle Berlin – the Italians now boldly go where they too...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2016

DUTILLEUX Mystère de l'instant. Timbres, espace, mouvement

Here is the third instalment of Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s Henri Dutilleux cycle, also available in a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2016

BRUCKNER Study Symphony

Following the completion of his harmony and counterpoint studies with Simon Sechter, Bruckner took lessons in form and orchestration from...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2016

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