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WINTERBERG Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Jonathan Powell)
Hans Winterberg (1901 91) was interned in Terezín by the Nazis. Unlike so many of his Jewish compatriots there, Winterberg...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Boult)
The veteran Adrian Boult at the helm of the orchestra he founded and painstakingly moulded into a top-class outfit –...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Järvi)
Paavo Järvi’s Tchaikovsky cycle with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra has come to an end. The last two symphonies, Nos 1...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2022
STRAUSS Three Tone Poems (Welser-Möst)
Strauss’s ‘unfailing mastery’, Franz Welser-Möst tells us in a booklet essay, ‘quite often leaves me speechless and with a wide...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2022
STILL Summerland. Violin Suite (Zina Schiff)
This grab-bag programme of works by William Grant Still (1895-1978) spans most of the composer’s long and distinguished career. His...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Payare)
Sonically speaking, this streamed offering from San Diego is right up there with the best we have – yes, even...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Sokhiev)
There’s a great deal to admire here. Some individual new thinking, too. In some ways the Tenth is the most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022
MARTINAITYTĖ Ex Tenebris Lux
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b1973), a Lithuanian composer living in New York, has been building a considerable reputation for herself in recent...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
MALIPIERO Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2. Per Una Favola Cavalleresca
Malipiero often appears to be a chameleon, as Naxos’s fine recordings of his work over recent years have demonstrated, but...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Piano Sonata (Alexander Ullman)
Not surprisingly for the winner of the Budapest 2011 and Utrecht 2017 Liszt Competitions, the British pianist Alexander Ullman, who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022
IRELAND Orchestral Works (Wilson)
Anyone who invested in John Wilson’s admirable Ireland release with the Hallé (12/09) will naturally be wondering whether it’s worth...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022
HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol 26 (Klumpp)
Pity poor HobI:107, aka Symphony ‘A’. Long thought to be a quartet (Op 1 No 5) rather than a symphony...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Poschner)
On completion in 2024, Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies will include all three versions of the Fourth Symphony....
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 WEBERN Concerto Op 24 (Pina Napolitano)
Reviewing Pina Napolitano’s first ‘Brahms the Progressive’ recording (7/18), I wrote how the pianist seemed more confident and commanding in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022
BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Blomstedt)
Herbert Blomstedt is a member of a much-respected senior ‘rostrum elite’ (Haitink, Boult, Böhm, Wand and the like) that over...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring
Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2022
JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Luks)
Following in Bach’s footsteps is never straightforward – few of the locations associated with him are quite what they seem....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022
FAURÉ Complete Songs (Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës)
Here’s a delicious treat that should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating. Complete sets of Gabriel Fauré’s songs are...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022
Jordan Bak: Impulse
For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2022
SUMMER Hamlet
The American composer Joseph Summer (b1956) is no stranger to opera, having written several comic operas early in his career,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
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