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Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra
Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'
If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 (Welser-Möst)
The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
SUPPÉ Fantasia Symphonica; Orchestral Overtures; Preludes (Rudner)
The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann; James Ehnes)
Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024
SIBELIUS Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkäinen (Mälkki)
BIS’s third recording of the four tone poems Sibelius based on the adventures of the hero Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024
SGAMBATI Sinfonia Festiva; Piano Concerto (la Vecchia)
It’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Morlot)
Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
LALO Orchestral Works (Järvi)
Conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director for Life, in his native Tallinn, Neeme Järvi...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances (Brauner)
Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
SCHUMANN; GRIEG Piano Concertos (Elisabeth Leonskaja)
Another Schumann/Grieg concertos coupling, anyone? After Lipatti, Kovacevich and countless others, what does this new one have to offer? Well,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2024
CORELLI Concerti grossi Op 6 (Alessandro Tampieri)
From the outset these 12 concertos have always been beyond borders – created for diverse occasions in Rome, revised by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
CHAUSSON; FRANCK Symphonies (Tingaud)
‘The sound of groaning cellos’ was how Stéphane Mallarmé evoked the Paris home of Ernest Chausson, though he might simply...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 (Roth)
When Leopold Nowak’s edition of the original 1873 version of Bruckner’s Third Symphony was published in 1977, there was hope...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024
BERLIN 1923 - Beethoven & Schulhoff: Piano Concertos (Herbert Schuch)
A decade ago Herbert Schuch recorded Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the WDR SO, coupling it with the Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
Behzod Abduraimov: Shadows of My Ancestors
Visual art and literature are at the core of the three piano cycles featured on Behzod Abduraimov’s latest solo release...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
Perseverance
Two things are likely to strike you listening to ‘Perseverance’, Marcus Eley’s new release of African American chamber music. First...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024
WEININGER All is Mere Breath
The Empire City Men’s Chorus deliver a poignant and powerful rendition of Nicholas Weininger’s nine-movement cantata, a heartfelt homage to...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2024
MIKHASHOFF Songs and Dances
Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
GLANCEY Ashes to Impulse
The road towards recognition has been a somewhat slow and circuitous one for Gregory T Glancey. Indeed, one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2024
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