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STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben MAHLER Rückert-Lieder (Payare)
This somewhat unlikely concert-derived programme kicks off with an orchestral work whose discography stretches back to Willem Mengelberg’s pioneering New...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024
SMETANA Má Vlast (Bychkov)
There are precious few orchestras in the world with a sound and an identity as distinctly their own as the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024
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
BRAHMS; BUSONI Violin Concertos (Francesca Dego)
Italian-born Francesca Dego returns to the successful formula of her debut concerto disc (DG, 2/18), pairing an Italian rarity with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024
William Youn: Boulanger, Fauré, Hahn
Lovers of French rarities will enjoy this stroll down the boulevard of belle époque Paris featuring Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
BACEWICZ; ENESCU; YSAŸE Music for Strings
Three string-playing composers who hailed from the same Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy – this album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Rattle)
The autumn of Simon Rattle’s illustrious career continues to deliver in abundance. This deeply impressive account of Mahler’s harrowing Sixth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024
Kay Kyung Eun Kim: Soundscape
The Korean pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim, a champion of contemporary works and innovative keyboard techniques, offers pieces by three...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
SIMON Tales - A Folklore Symphony
‘Tales is an exploration of African American folklore and Afrofuturist stories’, Carlos Simon writes in the booklet note for this...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
REALE 'American Mosaic'
Out of an opening cry and terse introduction, Kim Cook rises magnificently in Paul Reale’s Cello Concerto against a landscape...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2024
American Counterpoints
So many composers have been neglected in concert halls and opera houses due to prejudice that devoted musicians have decided...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024
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