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GIPPS Orchestral Works Vol 4 (Gamba)

Chandos completes its cycle of Ruth Gipps’s symphonies with this version of her Fifth and last, completed in 1982. Having...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 06/2025

EASTMAN Symphony No 2; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2 (Welser-Möst)

Franz Welser-Möst leads a refined, overwhelmingly lyrical performance of Tchaikovsky’s Little Russian Symphony on this live recording from the Cleveland...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2025

DOWLAND Lachrimae (Sempe)

Skip Sempé’s approach to the Lachrimae is to transfer it to what he calls a Renaissance Orchestra: two cornetti and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2025

CZERNOWIN Seltene Erde. Atara

She may get little UK exposure other than at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, but Chaya Czernowin has an extensive...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2025

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Wong)

This recording features the most recent (and almost certainly the last) performing version of the unfinished finale of Bruckner’s Ninth...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2025

BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 SCHUMANN Symphony in G minor (Savall)

Bruckner’s unnumbered D minor symphony, composed three years after the First Symphony, might not be as frequently performed as its...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2025

BEETHOVEN; LENTZ Violin Concertos (Arabella Steinbacher)

Arabella Steinbacher’s new Beethoven Violin Concerto pairing, supported by the Luxembourg Philharmonic and Gustavo Gimeno, is one with a bang...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2025

ADDISON; CANNON; CHAGRIN British Piano Concertos Vol 3 (Simon Callaghan)

It’s strange but true how very few 20th-century piano concertos by British composers have entered the regular repertoire. Nothing by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025

STRAUSS Salome (Gardner)

Salome is the earliest of Strauss’s operas to remain in the repertory. The most celebrated recording is still Georg Solti’s,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2025

Rare Birds

What happens when you invert the string quartet, replacing its tried-and-tested combination of two violins, viola and cello with two...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2025

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