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RAVEL Orchestral Works 2

During his years with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra from 2005 to 2012, Stéphane Denève devoted much of his recording...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Sinfonietta

This is the second release in Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, opening with the modernistic Second (1924 25) in a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015

MOZART Horn Concertos Nos 1 - 4. Horn Quintet

In the Norris household, and doubtless in many others, Mozart’s horn concertos = Dennis Brain with the Philharmonia Orchestra and...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015

KOPPEL Marimba Concertos 1 - 4

When Anders Koppel (b1947) was part of the rock band Savage Rose I doubt he – or anyone else –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015

JONGEN Violin Concerto. Adagio Symphonique

To those of us who know the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) chiefly though his organ music (the Sonata eroica...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015

GOUNOD Symphonies Nos 1-3

By no means mainstream repertoire, Gounod’s two completed symphonies nevertheless fully merit the finesse and joie de vivre that these...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015

GLASS Symphony No 4, "Heroes"

If Philip Glass’s Symphony No 2 is his ‘Beethoven’ symphony (its ending almost quotes the famous theme from Beethoven’s Fifth),...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015

L GLASS Symnphony No 3. Summer Life

Louis Glass (1864-1936) was a close contemporary of his fellow countryman Carl Nielsen and, like the slightly better-known Rued Langgaard,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015

ELLIS Concert Music. September Threnody. Vale Royal Suite

Born in Liverpool in 1933, David Ellis was a prize-winning composition student of Thomas Pitfield at Manchester’s Royal College of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending. Violin Concerto

The comparative rarity here is the Violin Concerto, which shows Vaughan Williams toying with fashionable 1920s neo-classicism. His reference point...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015

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