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EISLER Ernste Gesänge. Piano sonata Op 1

It is difficult to imagine a cause less fashionable than that of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), the Schoenberg pupil who struggled...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013

HOLST Hymn of Jesus DELIUS Sea Drift

There can be few more raptly compassionate statements in all music than Delius’s 1903 04 Whitman setting Sea Drift, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013

CHARPENTIER Motets and Sacred Music

French Baroque specialist Edward Higginbottom writes eloquently about Charpentier’s neglect in the shadow of more favoured contemporaries, and it seems...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

The appetite for evolving performance practices in Bach’s St Matthew Passion appears undiminished as we have gradually shifted, over the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013

JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

Two new Christmas Oratorio recordings in time for Christmas, and both from forces that give regular concert presentations of the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 4

The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev...

Reviewed in issue 11/2013

ARNOLD Concerto for 2 Violins JENKINS Sinfonietta

This recording offers an unusual variety of British works for string orchestra played by the Chamber Ensemble of London, directed...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2013

REINECKE; NIELSEN Flute Concertos

The adjective ‘great’ in the title of this disc perhaps needs some qualification in one or two cases but without...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013

TOMASI; PLANEL; JOLIVET Trumpet Concertos

French trumpet concerto literature was largely generated by a flamboyant generation of great indigenous soloists, led by the irrepressible Maurice...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013

Birth of the Symphony: Handel to Haydn

From its origins in the operatic overture, the symphony evolved from an entertainment to be chattered or munched through to...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013

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