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BRUCKNER Symphony No 3

Despite Wagner’s approval of ‘the symphony where the trumpet begins the theme’, Bruckner’s Third was something of a problem child,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2012

L BEDFORD Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale

Thirty-something British composer Luke Bedford (b1978) has a nice line in surrealistic titles. Of the five works on this disc,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012

BARTÓK Violin Concerto No 2 LIGETI Violin Concerto

Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs these three concertos by composers born in Hungary with her trademark panache and the recorded balance gives...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

The moment immediately following the arresting horn and trumpet fanfares at the start of the Fourth Symphony reveals a big...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2012

Le boeuf sur le toit

Le boeuf sur le toit is, of course, the name of a ballet by Milhaud, which in turn was adopted...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012

Leonard Shure in Concert at Jordan Hall

Who remembers Leonard Shure (1910-95)? Certainly his students, who often quaked under his critical savagery. I once attended a masterclass...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012

Xenakis in het Orgelpark

Now it has been scientifically proved that chaos keeps the world rational, anybody inhabiting that world, who is sensitive to...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 12/2012

ULLMANN Complete Piano Sonatas

Among the numerous composers to have been interred at the Terezín transit camp during the early 1940s, Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 12/2012

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 16. Wandererfantasie. Impromptus

The first instalment in Paul Lewis’s Schubert series (2/12) got the year off to a wonderful start and he ends...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2012

SAINT-SAËNS Complete Piano Works, Vol 3 – Character Pieces

Once, if briefly, known as the French Mozart, Saint-Saëns possessed a legendary facility, claiming he composed music ‘as an apple...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012

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