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BRAHMS Cello Sonatas SCHUMANN Fünf Stücke im Volkston (Christian Poltera)
Rob Cowan recently remarked that Casals and Horszowski make Brahms’s Second Cello Sonata ‘sound truly the Eroica of cello sonatas’...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 04/2024
Beethoven for Three
My colleague Andrew Farach-Colton ended his review of the previous volume, of the Pastoral and the Piano Trio Op 1...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Piano Concerto No 2 (Kirill Gerstein)
For such a starry orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic has a pretty threadbare Rachmaninov catalogue. Their only symphony cycle was with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
Neujahrskonzert 2024
Across the years the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna’s Musikverein has been conducted by the crème de la crème...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Metamorphosis
Edmund Finnis describes his Hymn (after Byrd) – an arrangement for string orchestra of the fourth movement of his First...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
YSAŸE Violin Concerto in E minor. Poeme concertant (Philippe Graffin)
Two world premieres from Eugène Ysaÿe might seem like a bonanza, but that’s what we have here: a full-scale violin...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
KALKBRENNER; TELLEFSEN Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)
There are lovely moments in Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen’s two piano concertos. The First (1847 48), Jeremy Nicholas tells us...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 (A Jansons)
Back in September 1971 I attended a concert at London’s Royal Festival Hall by what was then the Leningrad Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Chauhan)
Like the preceding volume (8/23), this further exploration of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral works and operas is a delight for the audiophile....
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2024
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
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