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SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (de Vriend)

Jan Willem de Vriend has been busy in recent years recording Romantic orchestral masterpieces for Challenge Classics: lots of Beethoven...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 18 & 21 (Jonathan Fournel)

Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ project has performed a valuable service in offering young musicians studio experience in central...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 6 & 8 (Robert Levin)

For this group of concertos from 1776, Robert Levin turns to the tangent piano, an instrument in which the string...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2024

MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie (Gimeno)

Quick and even precipitate tempos don’t exclude ardency of expression in Gustavo Gimeno’s direction of Turangalîla. He shapes the divided...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

KRIEGER Orchestral Works (Thomson)

Diversity is an outstanding feature of the ‘Music of Brazil’ series from Naxos, not only in turning up so many...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024

HOWELL Orchestral Works (Miller)

‘Music is a rum go.’ So remarked Vaughan Williams of his profession, words that might have resonated with the Birmingham-born...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024

DEBUSSY Jeux STRAVINSKY Petrushka (Mäkelä)

Petrushka comes home. To Paris if not the Théâtre du Châtelet. Following on from Klaus Mäkelä’s handsome coupling of Stravinsky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024

CHIN Orchestral Works (Rattle)

Unsuk Chin follows John Adams in getting the full Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings treatment while still alive, and rest assured the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Skrowaczewski)

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died in February 2017 at the age of 93, was a master conductor and much-loved musician whose...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 1872; Symphony No 3 1889 (Poschner)

Although Bruckner revised his Second Symphony several times after its initial composition in 1872, there’s much to be said for...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2024

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