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HADLEY Tone Poems and Overtures

Boston-born Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937), sometimes known simply as Henry Hadley, is a figure of some importance in American musical...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

FOSS Complete Symphonies

‘Foss came to neo-classicism late,’ the booklet-notes accompanying this first survey of all four Lukas Foss symphonies tell us, to...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015

FITZENHAGEN Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848 90), remembered for his bold, not to say high-handed revision of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

JANÁČEK Sinfonietta DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9

On grounds of sound alone, Anima Eterna’s new all-Czech coupling is something of a revelation. Jos van Immerseel has seen...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2015

DUTILLEUX Métaboles

I would imagine Ludovic Morlot and Karl-Heinz Steffens are thrilled – in a Gore Vidal ‘a little part of me...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015

CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

This latest release from the very proactive Fryderyk Chopin Institute pairs live recordings of the two concertos. Common to both...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015

CHAPLIN Modern Times

The American Film Institute selected Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times as a cinematic milestone in its list of 100 films of...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2015

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5

This release completes Simone Young’s Bruckner cycle, one of only a handful to include the two early symphonies in F...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2015

BRUCH Violin Concerto No 2

Ulf Wallin gives a dramatic, passionate reading of Bruch’s Second Concerto, aided by a fine, spacious recording and strong, well...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015

BRITTEN; DELIUS Violin Concertos

New recordings of Delius’s raptly songful, beautifully proportioned Violin Concerto are always welcome. Philippe Graffin’s version with David Lloyd-Jones certainly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2015

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