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STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (Rouvali)

The headline that I take away from this performance is beauty over brawn. Rarely has the iconic bassoon solo of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2025

SIBELIUS Symphony No 5. Two Serenades (Collon)

This is outstanding. The longest sunrise in music emerges through crisp clean air in Nicholas Collon’s wonderfully lucid account of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2025

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (Shokhakimov)

In an impossibly distinguished field the young Uzbek conductor Aziz Shokhakimov has an ease and certainly a ‘nose’ for this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2025

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 (Yunchan Lim)

This is the official commercial release of a live performance that has already acquired almost legendary status. For those who...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2025

MOZART Clarinet Concerto K622 (Wenzel Fuchs)

What splendid gifts Mozart bestowed upon clarinettists – especially the Concerto, which can barely have any equal in terms of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2025

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 (Shani)

What a refreshing release this is: Mendelssohn played like Mendelssohn (and not heavyweight Mahler); a dynamic range that is not...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2025

LALO; STRAUSS Tides of Dance (Franziska Pietsch)

Back in April in the context of reviewing Renaud Capuçon’s album of Strauss’s violin music (DG, 4/25), having commended Jascha...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2025

KALABIS Deuttina. Chamber Music. Diptych

The Czech composer Viktor Kalabis was prolific but his output remains under-represented on record. Kalabis was married to the eminent...

Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 07/2025

GLASS Violin Concerto No 1 (Anne Akiko Meyers)

Of the 13 or so concertos written by Philip Glass over a period of nearly 40 years, his first, for...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2025

BRUSTAD 'Ylg, hof, Udjat! - Concerts For Soloists And Orchestra

Karsten Brustad (b1959) started out in the 1980s as a classical guitarist. Composition, however, slowly occupied a larger and larger...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2025

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