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RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead, Op 29. The Rock, Op 7. Symphonic Dances, Op 45

While it must be acknowledged that ominous, despondent images of mortality haunt The Isle of the Dead, this performance of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Violin Sonata Op 115

Prokofiev’s violin concertos have been strongly represented on disc since the mid-1930s when Joseph Szigeti and Jascha Heifetz took up...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013

PAGANINI Moto perpetuo, Op 11. Violin Concerto No 5. I palpiti, Op 13

Paganini’s Fifth Concerto, the last he composed, is preserved only in the form of a solo part, which, however, contains...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013

Mendelssohn_Violin Concertos

Despite the best efforts of Yehudi Menuhin in championing Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor, the youthful work has never caught...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 03/2013

KORNGOLD Much Ado About Nothing. Sinfonietta

Over the years there have been a number of recordings in various guises from Korngold’s incidental music to Much Ado...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2013

KHACHATURIAN Concerto-Rhapsody LYAPUNOV Violin Concerto Op 61

Most of the one-movement concerto-rhapsodies Aram Khachaturian manufactured in the 1960s are less familiar than the concertos he composed for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013

HOLST The Planets

Conceived in conjunction with a summer 2012 installation at London’s Science Museum, the Philharmonia’s ‘Universe of Sound Holst The Planets’...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013

HAYDN Symphonies 6 - 8 'The Day Trilogy'

Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three for which the Germans...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2013

GUNNING Concertos for Guitar, Clarinet & Flute

Anyone who has watched Agatha Christie’s Poirot on television will have heard the striking opening sequence, the work of Christopher...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2013

GOEHR Marching to Carcassonne. Pastorals. When Adam Fell

Alexander Goehr turned 80 last August and this programme, spanning nearly 50 years of his creative life, is as welcome...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2013

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