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Chromosphere: Symphonic Colours of the Woodwind Orchestra

Subtitled ‘symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra’, Divine Art’s ‘Chromosphere’ is an engaging collection of attractive new works – all...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

Avi Avital 'Baroque Album'

If I hear a recording this year more guaranteed to put a spring in my step than this, then 2024...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 (Welser-Möst)

The Cleveland Orchestra recorded only one Tchaikovsky symphony with their longtime music director George Szell (the Fifth in 1959 for...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024

SUPPÉ Fantasia Symphonica; Orchestral Overtures; Preludes (Rudner)

The star attraction in this attractive Suppé collection is the Fantasia symphonica, a recent discovery by the conductor Ola Rudner,...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2024

STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann; James Ehnes)

Not so long ago, in the words of writer and broadcaster Michael Oliver, Stravinsky’s elegant Concerto ‘generally sounded very nasty...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2024

SIBELIUS Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkäinen (Mälkki)

BIS’s third recording of the four tone poems Sibelius based on the adventures of the hero Lemminkäinen from the Kalevala...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2024

SGAMBATI Sinfonia Festiva; Piano Concerto (la Vecchia)

It’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024

MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Morlot)

Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024

LALO Orchestral Works (Järvi)

Conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director for Life, in his native Tallinn, Neeme Järvi...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024

DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances (Brauner)

Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024

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