BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1. Serenade. Romance

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Jack Liebeck | Martyn Brabbins

One couldn’t help wondering, when Jack Liebeck launched his exploration of Bruch’s violin works last year, why he began with...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Roth)

Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | François-Xavier Roth

François-Xavier Roth’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh is the first instalment in a new cycle of the symphonies being recorded by...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022

ARENSKY Chamber Symphony TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade

Amsterdam Sinfonietta | Candida Thompson

Robin Holloway remarked that everything in Tchaikovsky’s work truest to his genius ‘aspires to the condition of ballet’: a perception...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019

Loewe; Schumann Auf Einer Burg

Young Dutch baritone Henk Neven has an exceptional voice –perfectly controlled, ideal for German Lieder. It is hardly an exaggeration...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2011

Bartók Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Two Portraits

Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Maurizio Pollini | Shlomo Mintz

Maurizio Pollini’s hard-hitting approach works best in the First Concerto, where the Chicago players circle the pianist like a street...

Reviewed in issue 9/1999

STRAUSS Josephslegende (Bollon)

Staatskapelle Halle

Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024

SCHMITT La Tragédie de Salomé. Chant élégiaque

Alain Altinoglu | Ambur Braid | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024

Furtwängler Symphonic Concerto

Alfred Walter | David Lively | Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice

Furtwangler was the performing musican who, more than any other, provided the criteria by which Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, the...

Reviewed in issue 12/1991

Bach Keyboard Concerto No 1, BWV 1052; Transcriptions

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Hélène Grimaud

Hélène Grimaud presents an intruiging mix of solo Bach, concerted Bach and transcribed Bach that partly achieves unity by the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 2/2009

Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2

Daniel Barenboim

Multi-faceted musician and now courageous political figure, Daniel Barenboim’s star burns more brightly than ever, and never more so than...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2005