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BOLCOM Trio For Horn, Violin and Piano. Suite No 2 For Solo Violin
The two works on this album, appearing on record for the first time, are typical of the stylistic versality of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2022
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 10, 11 12 & 14 (Ehnes Quartet)
This is big, traditional playing, expressive and full-bodied, with plentiful vibrato and where each quartet member enters into a communal...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2022
TELEMANN Viola Concertos, Overtures & Fantasias (Antoine Tamestit)
Some nice moments almost tie together the performance of the Ouverture burlesque on this all-Telemann album. The Akademie für Alte...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2022
STAMITZ Four Symphonies (Willens)
Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) is not the most historically famous composer in his family – that would be his father Johann,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Complete Symphonies & Fragments (Gaigg)
This set of Schubert’s symphonies arrives just in time for the 225th anniversary of the composer’s birth. While a good...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
RÖNTGEN Symphonies Nos 7, 11, 12, 14, 22-24 (Porcelijn)
Here’s a tale of two Röntgens. On the first CD, we have the Seventh of the composer’s 24 symphonies, composed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
RESPIGHI, STRAUSS; SCHOENBERG 'Métamorphoses Nocturnes'
Something of a revelation, this disc, this programme – and, for the creator of Appassionato, Mathieu Herzog (late of the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2022
NESET 'Manmade'
Marius Neset (b1985) has now emerged among the leading jazz practitioners, and this release with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Fischer)
As this final chapter of Adám Fischer’s distinctive, occasionally inspired Mahler cycle draws to a close, dare I say that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2022
LIEBERMANN Frankenstein
Within just five years of its publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel inspired a stage play that became...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 02/2022
JANÁCEK On An Overgrown Path (Karsko)
How good is your French? The two parts of Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path – the 10 pieces published in...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
HINDEMITH Clarinet Concerto. Clarinet Quartet. Clarinet Sonata (Sharon Kam)
Israeli-born, Hanover-resident Sharon Kam (b1971) studied with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. In a successful global...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
HAYDN 'Haydn 2032' Vol 11: Symphonies 2, 24, 82, 87 (Antonini)
Eleven volumes and 35 symphonies down, Giovanni Antonini now reaches a third of the way through his Haydn cycle with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
EISLER Couplets. Ballads. Orchestral Suites 2-4. Die Letzte Nacht
This double-CD set offers a valuable and absorbing selection of Hanns Eisler’s songs and shorter orchestral works from across his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2022
BRIDGE. ELGAR Cello Concertos (Gabriel Schwabe)
Following the solo cello’s emotional declaration at the opening of Elgar’s Concerto, the violas begin a quietly doleful, lilting tune...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
BRAHMS Symphony No 1, Violin Concerto (Stéphanie-Marie Degand)
We’ve had a bumper crop of historically informed recordings of the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
AUBER Overtures Vol 5 - Zanetta, Zerline (Salvi)
Readers of Jules Verne will remember that among the treasures of human civilisation that Captain Nemo assembled in the library...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6-9 (Savall)
Chapeau to Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations. The pandemic delayed the completion of their Beethoven symphony cycle but...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2022
Georges Cziffra: 1956‑1986 The Complete Studio Recordings
The life and legend of Georges (originally György) Cziffra (1921 94) could not have been invented by the most creative...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2022
Mariss Jansons: The Edition
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is the youngest of the great German symphony orchestras, founded under Eugen Jochum’s direction in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2022
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