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SIBELIUS Violin Concerto SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No 2 (Lea Birringer)

There are so many available versions of Sibelius’s evergreen Violin Concerto (1903 05) that evaluating any newcomer against past competition...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Noseda)

The Eleventh occupies a curious place in Shostakovich’s symphonic journey. Once deemed to represent a lowering of critical sights, its...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Baiba Skride)

The commercial discography of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto has grown exponentially since the 1980s and for today’s younger players the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2025

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos (Yo-Yo Ma)

It was with Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto that Yo Yo Ma firmly established himself on the international scene and which,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Suite No 3 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol (Kochanovsky)

Stanislav Kochanovsky is a seriously good conductor. Born in St Petersburg, he’s conducted opera regularly at the Mikhailovsky and Mariinsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2025

Alexandre Tharaud: Concertos - Pécou, Lazkano, Nante

Few current pianists place such emphasis on their contemporaries as Alexandre Tharaud. This new release comprises three concertos that highlight...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2025

Boult’s Elgar: The Forgotten Recordings

Broadcast live on March 23, 1944, from the Corn Exchange in Bedford (the BBC SO’s wartime base), In the South...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2025

DVOŘÁK Symphonic Poems (Bolton)

These performances of three of Dvořák’s late symphonic poems are by no means the swiftest on record. In fact, compared...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2025

DVOŘÁK Romance. 4 Romantic Pieces MOZART Violin Concerto No 5 (Grace Park)

An odd coupling, you might think – two composers of different nationalities and different centuries. You might also have thought...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2025

DAUGHERTY Blue Electra

Blue Electra is a four-movement violin concerto inspired, composer Michael Daugherty (b1954) writes, ‘by the sensational life and mysterious disappearance...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2025

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