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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 PÄRT De profundis (Storgårds)

Shostakovich’s Thirteenth is sonically the most austere of all his symphonies: it features a bass soloist, a male choir and...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Janowski)

Reviewing Marek Janowski’s Beethoven cycle on Pentatone (2/21), Andrew Farach-Colton drew attention to its consistently clear articulation, ‘striking lack of...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru

If ‘Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru’ initially sounds like the title of a gangsta rap album, nothing could be further...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024

LIGETI Concertos and Chamber Music (Bleuse)

In the year of his centenary and with its own half-century fast approaching, it made sense for Ensemble Intercontemporain to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

LACHENMANN My Melodies

Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)

There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)

Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024

GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'

Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)

Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024

DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'

Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024

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