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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Repertoire, orchestra, producer (Andrew Keener) and venue (Liverpool Philharmonic Hall) prompt rosy memories of Vernon Handley’s distinguished March 1992 sessions...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH. WEINBERG Cello Concertos

Weinberg’s Cello Concerto is one of those products of the time of the Soviet Union’s 1948 anti-formalism campaign that went...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Gravesend is an unlikely location for a Russian opus 1, but the Andante tranquillo of Rimsky-Korsakov’s First Symphony was composed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016

RAVEL Daphnis e Chloé. Valses nobles et sentimentales

Stéphane Denève’s recorded legacy from the time he was at the helm of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra is primarily...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2016

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1, 17 & 20

Brave is the soul who dares to allow him or herself to be compared to the great Mozart pianists of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2016

KARAEV Orchestral Works

These two works by the Azerbaijani composer Faradzh Karaev (b1943) date from 2004 (Violin Concerto) and 2009 (Vingt ans après...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2016

IRELAND Music for String Orchestra

Originally fashioned as a test piece for the 1932 National Brass Band Championships, John Ireland’s A Downland Suite (expertly retooled...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016

HELLSTENIUS; MATRE Violin Concertos

The name of the Norwegian Ørjan Matre (b1979) should be familiar to British audiences following last year’s Proms performance of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2016

GOLDMARK Symphony No 1. Prometheus Overture

‘Clear cut and faultless’ was Brahms’s judgement on Karl Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony, first performed in 1876. Though its bucolicism...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016

CZERNY Grand Concerto

These days we remember Czerny principally as a student and friend of Beethoven and a composer of numerous piano studies....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016

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