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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 8-10 (Petrenko)

Recorded during lockdown, this trio of Shostakovich symphonies chimes quite dramatically with the mood of that time and speaks volumes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Liss. Wilson)

John Wilson’s new Rachmaninov album with the Sinfonia of London opens with a monstrous crash in the first few seconds,...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2023

PUTS The City. Marimba Concerto. Moonlight (Alsop)

Kevin Puts wrote his Marimba Concerto (1997, rev 2021) while a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Welser-Möst)

I hope readers who only listen to CDs will not miss out on this fine, but digital-only, recording. Franz Welser-Möst...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2023

NORDHEIM The Tempest: Suite From the Ballet

When reviewing the first recording of Arne Nordheim’s then very new Suite from his ballet The Tempest (1979), recorded for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023

MYASKOVSKY Cello Concerto (Raphael Wallfisch)

Myaskovsky’s concertante and duo sonata works are not numerous, and those with cello fit snugly on to a single CD....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2023

MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles... (Fischer)

The Utah Symphony has enjoyed something of a golden era under the direction of Thierry Fischer, and this latest release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Bychkov)

The character of this reading – and it does not, alas, confound expectations – is clearly established at the outset:...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2023

ÍSÓLFSSON; VIÐAR Icelandic Works for the Stage (Gamba)

While Jón Leifs was flitting between Reykjavik and Berlin there were Icelandic composers who stayed put – or at least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023

GOMES Opera Overtures and Preludes

Born in Campinas, Brazil, Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836 96) studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro before a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023

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