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GÁL Symphony No 2 SCHUMANN Symphony No 4

This is the third of a projected series of four discs setting the symphonies of Schumann alongside those of Hans...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013

d'ERLANGER Concerto Symphonique

German father, American mother, born in Paris, naturalised British (he lived most of his life in London), Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013

SCHUMANN; DVOŘÁK Piano Concertos

This is the second disc of this unlikely coupling to come my way in the past two years. Martin Helmchen...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013

MOZART Symphony No 39 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4

Here’s another irresistible helping of Sir Georg Solti and his dazzling Chicagoans from the BBC archives, this time a colour...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

CASELLA Italia. Sinfonia (Symphony No 3)

Good news: Vol 3 in Chandos’s Casella series effortlessly maintains the exalted artistic and technical standards of both its predecessors...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

BRITTEN Violin Concerto

Britten’s own recording of his Violin Concerto with Mark Lubotsky towers over the field but that has not stopped others...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2013

BRAHMS Symphony No 1

‘Johannes Brahms 1874-1951’ reads the back cover, suggesting a sloppiness that, happily, is not reflected either in the cultured response...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 7

It has long struck me that Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies make an ideal coupling. Though they cross the traditional...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9

Mahler has been the mainstay of the San Francisco Symphony’s releases on its own label and this performance of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 HAYDN Cello Concerto No 1

Few young conductors treading the current circuit tick as many boxes as does Gustavo Dudamel, what with his obvious charm,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013

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