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GORDON Dystopia. Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Best known for his work with ensembles (not least in Bang on a Can), Michael Gordon is no slouch when...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
GALLAGHER Symphony No 2
Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Jack Gallagher studied composition, counterpoint and orchestration with Elie Siegmeister (1909 91). In his booklet-note...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015
EÖTVÖS Concertos
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s recording of Peter Eötvös’s seven (2006) made a strong impression (Recording of the Year in the 2013 Awards)...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2015
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance. Sonatina
The Austrian violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, together with his Czech colleagues, achieves here some inspiring results. Benefiting from crisp, beautifully...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
DUBOIS Symphony No 2. Messe Pontificale
The first bars of this set are so startling that you momentarily suspect that there must have been a mistake....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
O DAVIS Flight. Voyager. Airborne Dances
Mainly set down in one session, Oliver Davis’s ‘Flight’ is a loose concept built around the violin-playing of Kerenza Peacock....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
CASTIGLIONI La Buranella. Altisonanza
Three facets of Castiglioni’s homage to the past are represented on this disc from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, joined...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
BRUCKNER Symphony No 3
To recap: in Gramophone’s March 2015 issue, I nominated Bruckner’s Third Symphony as his most problematic score and suggested that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015
BRIAN Symphonies Nos 9, 19 & 27
This disc is something special. It features some of Brian’s most attractive scores – including one of my very favourites,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
BRAHMS; BRUCH Violin Concertos
Apart from bearing the title ‘Timeless’ and including several moody photos of David Garrett, this issue has no links to...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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