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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 16. Eroica Variations SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy

Described as ‘a rising star’, the 19-year-old Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan has surely already risen, and it is greatly to...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015

JS BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier

It’s interesting that many harpsichordists purport to approach Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with scholarly authority, yet still come up with disparate...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015

The Argentinian Album

Piazzolla must be the most-arranged composer of recent times, a tribute to his compositions’ inherent strength as much as to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015

WALTON Cello Concerto

Here are two distinguished new versions of Walton’s still underestimated Cello Concerto. Both display heaps of eloquence and perceptive artistry...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

VILLA-LOBOS Symphony No 10

This is the fourth recording of Villa-Lobos’s enormous, magnificent, overblown, genre-melding Tenth Symphony (1952) I know of (those by Gisele...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015

TÜÜR Symphony No 5. Prophecy

Faced with the unusual commission for a large-scale symphonic work for orchestra and big band, Estonia’s leading symphonist decided to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Dennis Russell Davies doesn’t give us fast-lane Stravinsky. The Introduction to ‘The Adoration of the Earth’ approximates a slowly evolving...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015

STRAUSS Four Last Songs. Ein Heldenleben

Anna Netrebko gets star billing here together with a front-cover photo of her walking along a snow-strewn path and swathed...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 6

Having recorded the complete symphonies of both Haydn (Sony) and Bruckner (Arte Nova), Dennis Russell Davies is well placed to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015

RUDERS Nightshade Trilogy

The first of Ruders’s Nightshade Trilogy was composed in 1986 for the London-based Capricorn Ensemble, who here give it a...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015

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