BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra (Dausgaard)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Thomas Dausgaard launch a series coupling contrasting works by Bartók, this first...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

KARLSONS Oremus: Sacred Choral Works

Latvian Radio Choir | Sigvards Klava | Sinfonietta Riga

Juris Karlsons is one of Latvia’s most distinguished composers, with an extensive output and having occupied some of the highest...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Shani)

Lahav Shani | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023

Reimann Medea

Michael Boder | Vienna State Opera Orchestra

A century after Richard Strauss’s Elektra crafted the definitive conjunction between musical modernism and ancient Greek drama, Aribert Reimann has...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/2011

Fall (Der) Fidele Bauer

Eugene Amesmann | Franz Suhrada | Laura Scherwitzl | Lehár Festivals Chorus | Roamana Noack | Robert Maszl | Rupert Bergmann | Thomas Zisterer | Vinzenz Praxmarer

It’s gratifying to find CPO looking beyond Lehár for 20th-century Viennese operettas. Hard on the heels of Oskar Nedbal’s admirable...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2011

Barenboim plays Chopin in Warsaw

This great musician and ambassador for music celebrated in 2010 the diamond jubilee of his public debut. He has just...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2011

Stephen Hough's French Album

Stephen Hough

Eh bien, voici un disque vraiment délicieux! Stephen Hough describes this album as ‘a sort of musical dessert trolley’. Come,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

BERLIOZ L’enfance du Christ

Alastair Miles | Robin Ticciati | Stephan Loges | Swedish Radio Symphony Chorus | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Véronique Gens | Yann Beuron

How remarkable it is that this perfectly formed 90 minute oratorio should have grown from such an unassuming seed –...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2013

BUXTEHUDE Complete Organ Works Vol 5

After decades of neglect by record companies, the music of Dieterich Buxtehude now seems almost in danger of swamping the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue:

Yulianna Avdeeva plays Chopin, LIszt and Mozart

Yulianna Avdeeva

Yulianna Avdeeva’s first prize in the 2010 Chopin Competition was not without controversy. Hearing her play Shostakovich last year in...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016