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GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No 2

After 20-year-old Benjamin Grosvenor’s astonishing Decca solo debut album (10/11) comes his first concerto disc, giving us one of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012

FUCHS Atlantic Riband; American Rhapsody; Divinum Mysterium

This is the third CD of Kenneth Fuchs’s orchestral music arising from the enthusiastic partnership of JoAnn Falletta and the...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2012

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8

When reviewing Claus Peter Flor’s Malaysian Philharmonic recording of Dvořák’s Seventh (8/12), I mentioned its close proximity, in climate if...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2012

DELIUS Piano Concerto. Orchestral Works

Delius aficionados will need no reminding from me that this is not the first recording of his Piano Concerto in...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

BRAHMS; BERG Violin Concertos

This is a fine recording, with excellent balance. The instruments of the Vienna Philharmonic blend with particular smoothness and the...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos WWV 1052,1056,1041 arr for Mandolin

Israeli-born, Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital’s repertoire extends from Baroque and Classical music written for mandolin through to adaptations and arrangements...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2012

PERGOLESI Opera Arias

A pupil of the same Neapolitan conservatory that trained Jommelli and Traetta, Pergolesi packed a lot into a top-flight career...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2012

MOZART La finta giardiniera

Triumphantly premiered during the Munich carnival season early in 1775, La finta giardiniera (‘The pretend gardener-maid’) is a typical...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Created for Paris in 1973, then for Milan in 1980 (there’s an Arthaus DVD of a 2006 revival under Gérard...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012

LEVINAS La Métamorphose

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s unnerving tale of man transformed into a cockroach, is a gift to a composer as imaginative...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012

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