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NIELSEN Flute Concerto. Symphony No 3. Pan and Syrinx (Gardner)
A near-perfect combo of works spanning the length and breadth of Carl Nielsen’s life’s work. The tone poem Pan and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
HAYDN Symphonies Vols 28-31 (Klumpp)
Like a sprinter lurching forwards to breast the tape, Johannes Klumpp announces that last spring he recorded the remaining symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
FALLA El Retablo de Maese Pedro; STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite (Heras-Casado)
The best music effects a kind of time travel on the ear. Turn to the slow movement of the Harpsichord...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 (Inkinen)
Pietari Inkinen has been building an impressive career without the intense media scrutiny accorded some of his Finnish colleagues. While...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
DELIUS Hassan – Complete incidental music (Phillips)
Delius lovers will already cherish the Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan as extracted and edited by Thomas Beecham for use...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
BRITTEN Violin Concerto (Isabelle Faust)
Hot on the heels of Baiba Skride’s exhilarating account of Britten’s Violin Concerto comes this one from Isabelle Faust in...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
BERNSTEIN Serenade WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No 1 (James Ehnes)
I’ve always admired the modesty and truthfulness of James Ehnes as a player – and you can hear that modesty...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)
With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Divertimento. Romanian Folk Dances (Dausgaard)
Bartók was never fully content with The Wooden Prince and this final revision marks an end to his tinkering. It...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Violin Concertos (Leonidas Kavakos)
In the booklet notes, Leonidas Kavakos is clearly keen for us to know that he has experimented with playing on...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2024
CPE BACH 'Instrumental Theatre of Effects'
Emanuel Bach, second son of JS, was famous for his rhapsodising at the clavichord in his Hamburg home. As the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
ANDRES The Blind Banister
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the inquisitive, explorative and dynamic approach one hears in Timo Andres’s piano-playing also comes through in his own...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Études (Yunchan Lim)
Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
Velvet Brown. Tuba
The repertoire on Velvet Brown’s fourth recording for Crystal is of such absorbing interest and the playing of such high...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Bernard)
David Bernard and his dedicated amateur orchestra continue their recorded traversal of the standard orchestral repertoire with this set of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
ROSNER Orchestral Music Vol 4 (Palmer)
Arnold Rosner’s extraordinary Requiem (A/20) was my Critics’ Choice for 2020, the third volume of his orchestral works (5/19) my...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
KAYE Time is the Sea We Swim In
The compositional catalogue of New York-resident Debra Kaye runs to around 70 works, ranging from orchestral and instrumental works to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
BEACH; CORIGLIANO Violin Sonatas (Usha Kapoor)
The coupling is one of contrasts, much as an album of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky would present. While it’s perfectly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
Michael Spyres: In The Shadows
We’ve got used to the fact that Michael Spyres albums take us on unexpected journeys, often with unexpected diversions on...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2024
WAGNER Parsifal (Jordan)
Stage+ hosts the film of this Russian-prison Parsifal, directed (via Zoom) by Kirill Serebrennikov in Vienna in 2021. Anyone discomfited...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
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