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STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring MAHLER Symphony No 1

The Australian World Orchestra is effectively a gathering of Aussie clans – a grand reunion of native musicians based both...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2014

LARSSON Symphony No 1

At the start of his otherwise commendable booklet essay, Christoph Schlüren lists all the dominant Swedish composers of Lars-Erik Larsson’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

R HARRIS Symphony No 4. Cello Concerto

New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) studied with Douglas Lilburn and taught at the Victoria University in Wellington. Since 2004 he...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1 GRIEG Piano Concerto

What immediately strikes you about this recording is not the execution of the familiar opening pages of the Tchaikovsky but...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

FOSKETT Dinosaur

As Christopher Austin points out, an assessment of Ben Foskett’s composing this past decade needs to take into account his...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014

FIBICH Symphonic Poems

Zdeněk Fibich’s tone-poems are roughly contemporaneous with Smetana’s and precede D Dvořák's Erben-inspired late masterpieces by a number of years....

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

FASCH Quartets and Concertos

This recording should send Baroque music lovers clamouring for more. Although a violinist, Johann Friedrich Fasch wrote ingeniously for wind...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2014

ELGAR Symphony No 1. Cockaigne Overture

Here’s a welcome companion issue to Sakari Oramo’s account of Elgar’s Second Symphony (9/13). If the Finn’s view of its...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 6. American Suite

The opening bars of the symphony signal something quite out of the ordinary, the perfect balance of horns and violas,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014

Dvořák – In Love?

This documentary by the great Tony Palmer was first shown in 1988 on ITV’s South Bank Show. Its questioning title...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014

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