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Le Paris des Romantiques

The premise of this fascinating disc is that all three composers knew, worked with and respected one another in the...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2

Pletnev has always been respectful of the classicism, the formal ‘correctness’, so often downplayed in Tchaikovsky performances – but here,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2012

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No 1

After two hearings, this disc provoked two contradictory responses. My initial notes concluded that Trifonov was blessed with fabulous fingers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012

STANDFORD First Symphony 'The Seasons'. Cello Concerto

Yorkshire-born Patric Standford (b1939) was a pupil of Edmund Rubbra and Norman Del Mar at the Guildhall School of Music,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012

SPOHR 4 Concertos for Clarinet

Louis Spohr made no concessions to technical limitations in the concertos he wrote for clarinettist Simon Hermstedt, who didn’t ask...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

Paavo Berglund set down three Sibelius symphony cycles (with the Bournemouth Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras, both for EMI, and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012

The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol 13 – Schumann

Anthony Marwood has an enviable reputation as a Schumann-player (among those of us who envy such things, at least). His...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

Geraint Lewis, in his recent Gramophone Collection on Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony, quoted Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s views on the much-maligned composer’s orchestration...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

David Zinman and his expert band give predictably athletic, tightly disciplined performances of two contrasting early Schubert symphonies: the blithe,...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5; Concert Overtures

Hackle-raising stuff from Michi Gaigg. She offers resourceful thinking about the Fifth Symphony – or distasteful re-thinking that destroys a...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012

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