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Ensemble Kheops: Brahms, Berg & Zemlinsky
The Belgian-based Ensemble Kheops have always impressed with their fluency of tone, immaculate intonation and ensemble, and the highly sensitive...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2022
BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op 12 No 1; Op 24; Op 96 (Rachel Podger)
For her first recorded foray into Beethoven, Rachel Podger chooses three sonatas that suit her essentially collegial performance style. The...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2022
SIBELIUS Compete Symphonies (Mäkelä)
There’s something extraordinarily satisfying about embarking upon Sibelius’s entire symphonic journey in a single one-day sitting. The evolution and refining...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
Slatkin conducts Slatkin
Before specialising as a conductor, Leonard Slatkin studied composition with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in Los Angeles, and he has remained active...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
Move - The Trumpet As Movie Star
You might describe this entertaining disc as trumpeting (apologies) the extraordinary talents of Romain Leleu through a medium well used...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
America (Daniel Hope)
Daniel Hope was never just another violin virtuoso. His curiosity, his ability to think outside the box, to embrace passions...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
John Williams: The Berlin Concert
Viewers in the UK may have seen this Berlin Philharmonic concert on BBC Four in an unscheduled airing on Christmas...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2022
WALTON 'A Centenary Celebration' Façade. Henry V
The appearance of this Somm release marks 100 years since the premiere of the brilliant 19-year-old William Walton’s Façade. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2022
VIVALDI L’estro armonico JS BACH Keyboard arrangements
We’re so familiar with Vivaldi these days that it’s easy to forget what an impact his first set of concertos,...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Noseda)
There is much to commend in Noseda’s account of this most extraordinary symphony – and I speak as one whose...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022
NIELSEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)
Johan Dalene’s Nielsen Concerto was, to some extent, a known quantity. The young Swede won the Nielsen Competition in 2019...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
KORNGOLD Complete Incidental Music - Much Ado About Nothing. der Vampir
Four decades into the Korngold revival, it’s a pleasant surprise to be confronted with something completely unfamiliar. In this case,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022
GUNNING Flute Concertino. Clarinet Concerto. Guitar Concerto
The reissue of Christopher Gunning’s Discovery releases on the Signum label continues with a trio of concertos to which Edward...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022
GERSHWIN; RACHMANINOV Rhapsody (Martin James Bartlett)
I did not think Martin James Bartlett’s debut album for Warner Classics (6/19) showed him in the best possible light....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
'Debussy Orchestrated'
For their latest album, Pascal Rophé and his Loire orchestra turn to music by Debussy originally written for piano but...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)
It would be idle to pretend that this latest addition to Sony’s Bruckner cycle with Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 'die Nullte' (Poschner)
The earliest of Bruckner’s three symphonies in D minor, No 0 or Die Nullte was written shortly after the composer’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022
ABRAHAMSEN Schnee (Storgårds)
There isn’t much in Hans Abrahamsen’s recent output that doesn’t owe its existence, in some form or other, to his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Pichon)
Having recently tasted Pygmalion’s ravishing performances of two Bach cantatas for solo soprano with Sabine Devieilhe (Erato, 12/21), I sensed...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2022
Vintage Americana
I suspect that the six works featured here would be unlikely items in most selections of vintage Americana. All credit...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
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