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SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Jinjoo Cho)
Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho joins forces with former Quatuor Ébène viola player Mathieu Herzog and his Appassionato (formerly Ensemble Appassionato)...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2021
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 2 SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings (Franz-Welser-Möst)
Once Prokofiev resolved to remake himself as a Soviet composer in the 1930s his Second Symphony (1924 25) provided a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2021
MOZART Wind Concertos (Martin)
Having recorded the five violin concertos with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, the LSO now present a selection of the wind concertos. Szeps-Znaider...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021
LARCHER Symphony No. 2 'Kenotaph'. Die Nacht der Verlorenen
Best known for his chamber and vocal music (notably the highly regarded A Padmore Cycle – Harmonia Mundi, 6/14), Thomas...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021
HAYDN Symphonies Vol 25 (Klumpp)
Having appointed Johannes Klumpp their new artistic director, the Heidelberger Sinfoniker, founded in 1993 by Thomas Fey, now undertake to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2021
BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Haitink)
Shortly before his farewell concert performances of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic in August and September 2019, the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2021
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & '6' (Gianluca Cascioli)
Harmonia Mundi, which celebrated Beethoven’s semiquincentenary with original-instrument performances of the five canonic concertos and Choral Fantasy with Kristian Bezuidenhout...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2021
BRITTEN Turn of the Screw (Wilson)
How inspired of OperaGlass Works’ founders Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson to identify Wilton’s venerable Music Hall as the perfect...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2021
Marianne Crebassa: Séguedilles
Marianne Crebassa’s ‘Séguedilles’ has its origins in family history. Her maternal grandparents, she tells us in a booklet note, were...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2021
JOSQUIN In Memoria Mea
If you’ve ever caught yourself regretting the uniformity of performance approaches to Renaissance vocal music, this disc may be for...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2021
Bruce Liu: Chopin
Here is a selection of performances from the various stages of the recent International Chopin Piano Competition played by the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2021
'Round Midnight (Quatuor Ebène)
Fresh from their worldwide tour of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Quatuor Ébène come up with an ambitious project centred on...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2021
MENDELSSOHN String Quartets, Vol 2 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric Quartet here conclude in magnificent style the cycle they began in October 2018. The line-up may have changed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2021
Americascapes (Trevino)
Robert Trevino has put together a cleverly varied programme of little-known American orchestral works. Indeed, this is the premiere recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Jurowski)
Modern listeners tend to take Mahler’s proud claim for the Eighth as his greatest achievement with a soup-spoon of salt....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021
GUBAIDULINA Dialog: Ich und Du. The Wrath of God. The Light of the End
There is always a spritual dimension to Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, and the violin concerto Dialog: Ich und Du is no...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Mälkki)
Susanna Mälkki’s thrilling sojourn in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was roundly welcomed by me in the June issue of Gramophone –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2021
Sabine Devieilhe: Bach. Handel
On the surface there is no recognisable thread that logically ties together the contents of this mouth-watering recital, although the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2021
Ieva Jokubaviciute: Northscapes
Ieva Jokubaviciute’s first album was a tribute to Alban Berg. Here, she focuses on the Nordic and Baltic states, with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
Reginald L Mobley: American Originals
San Francisco-based Agave’s third album with countertenor Reginald L Mobley pays tribute to Florence Price with eight tracks, none more...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2021
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