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Martin Owen Plays Strauss, Schumann & Weber

Is Schumann’s Koncertstück for four horns the most life-affirming work in the repertoire? Perhaps not. But as you’re listening to...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2023

SCHUBERT Symphonies 8 & 9 (Janowski)

Marek Janowski and his Dresdeners immediately score over virtually all the competition by offering the Unfinished and Ninth on a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos. Paganini Rhapsody (Yuja Wang)

Make no mistake, this is a classy release. Hardly surprising that, given the artists involved, but I headline the cliché...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023

MOZART Serenades (González-Monjas)

The peal and clatter of D major, resplendent with horns and trumpets and the bright resonance of open strings, resounds...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5 (Robert Levin)

Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated push to complete their recording of Mozart’s entire output for keyboard...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Santtu)

Like so much of what I’ve heard of Santtu’s work of late, this Mahler Symphony No 2 is decidedly hit...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023

LOCATELLI Il virtuoso, il poeta

Locatelli recordings often come in the form of complete opus numbers, so it makes a nice change to encounter a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2023

VAN KLENAU Concertos. Symphony No 8 (Graf)

Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) was a Danish composer who went from writing like Bruckner to writing like Schoenberg, living much...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023

HISAISHI A Symphonic Celebration

Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams – director-composer pairings among whom writer Michael Beek nominates as co-companions Hayao Miyazaki and...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023

HANDEL 'Water and Fire'

These are spirited, uplifting performances of the most popular of Handel’s orchestral works, played on period instruments about a semitone...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2023

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