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WALTON Symphony No 2. Viola Concerto

This latest Nimbus...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2015

VIEUXTEMPS Cello Concertos YSAŸE Meditation

The sixth volume of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Cello Concerto’ series lights upon two works by the celebrated 19th-century Belgian violinist Henri...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015

READ THOMAS Music for Strings

The association between Augusta Read Thomas and Nimbus reaches a fourth volume devoted largely to her music for strings. The...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Till Eulenspiegels

Less than a year since the release of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO recording of Also sprach Zarathustra (Orfeo, 7/14; Philip Clark’s...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015

SOLBERG Orchestral, Choral and Organ Music

Norwegian composer, conductor and organist Leif Solberg celebrated his 100th birthday on November 18 last year and this CD, recorded...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 7

Disappointing. Part of the problem here is the chilly ambience of BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff and the fact that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14

With its twin themes of death and resistance, Shostakovich’s symphony of sorrowful songs is as potent and pithy and defiant...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8. STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Winds

Writing for the Warner Icon box of Berglund’s EMI recordings, David Nice remembers the ‘awful numbness’ of the Eighth Symphony’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015

SCHUMANN Violin Concerto. Piano Trio No 3

Isabelle Faust brings her flawless technique and peerless intelligent musicianship to two works from a period during which Schumann’s sanity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2015

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Bracing and genial by turns, I guess you might characterise these symphonies as Nielsen’s most companionable. The first and second...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015

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