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Our Gilded Veins

Reflections ‘on memory, loss and healing’ by composers ‘with strong links to Scotland’ – which perhaps explains the involvement of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Alfia Bakieva)

Just when you think that the well of new angles on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has truly run dry, along comes...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024

SILVESTROV Symphony for Violin & Orchestra 'Widmung' (Lyndon-Gee)

Composed in 1984, the Postludium for piano and orchestra was among the first scores to bring Silvestrov’s name to listeners...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Nézet-Séguin)

Writing on Nézet-Séguin’s recording, with the Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (12/15), David Gutman commented: ‘As followers of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024

RAVEL Complete Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Morlot)

All three works on this inaugural disc in Ludovic Morlot’s complete cycle of Ravel’s orchestral works with the Barcelona Symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2024

PAYNE Visions and Journeys

Anthony Payne was born in 1936, the same year as Richard Rodney Bennett, and comparisons yield some obvious, deeply rooted...

Reviewed in issue 09/2024

MOZART Symphonies Nos 35, 36 & 40 (Peltokoski)

At the age of 24, Tarmo Peltokoski has already secured an impressive number of appointments. He is Music Director of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2024

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 1 SINIGAGLIA Romance. Rapsodia piemontese (Noah Bendix-Balgley)

This violin-and-orchestra-shaped encounter between one of musical history’s forgotten names and one of its … well, Mozart, represents the launch...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024

MOZART; POULENC Double and Triple Concertos (Nagano)

This pleasing programme highlights the gifts of a rather special musical family, one that recalls the similarly gifted Busch/Serkin, Menuhin...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (von Steinaecker)

It’s always fascinating to hear an approximation at least of how this music might have sounded in Mahler’s day (as...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2024

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