DOHNANYI String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

Aviv Quartet

It is 50 years since Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song for piano and orchestra was heard frequently in concert...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012

Bowen Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

York Bowen was just 18 and a composition pupil of Frederick Corder at the Royal Academy of Music when he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2011

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Isle of the Dead (Gourlay)

Andrew Gourlay | Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra

British audiences may best remember Jamaican-born Andrew Gourlay as assistant to Mark Elder at the Hallé or for his conducting...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2019

Robert Henry: As the Songbird Sings

Robert Henry

Although Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces hardly lack for world-class recordings, Robert Henry’s generous and big-boned yet lyrically informed pianism...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017

R LOMON Shadowing

Eileen Hutchins | Katherine Winterstein | Patrick Owen | Scott Woolweaver

Ruth Lomon (b1930) is Canadian-born and, after studying at the Conservatoire de Québec and McGill University, continued at the New...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

'Not Now, Bernard' and other stories

Alexander Armstrong | Orchestra of the Swan | Tom Hammond

David McKee’s children’s story Not Now, Bernard is wonderfully double-edged, attractive to youngsters because of the monster who eats children...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020

Jan Michiels: Bach-Busoni

Jan Michiels

Jan Michiels previously recorded four of Busoni’s Bach chorale prelude transcriptions and Busoni’s Fantasia contrappuntistica for a 2010 release on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

FUCHS Point of Tranquility

Adam Williamson | Greg Case | Jeffrey Renshaw | United States Coast Guard Band

Let me say right from the outset that this disc is as engaging, well performed and brightly recorded a programme...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020

LIANG A Thousand Mountains, a Million Streams

Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Chien-Kwan Lin | Gao Hong | Gil Rose

Lei Liang (b1972) was born in China then in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, but left to study in...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos (Lisiecki)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Jan Lisiecki

The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki has been accorded a distinct honour by DG, the company for whom he has recorded...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2019