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TABAKOVA String Paths

Bulgarian-born and resident in London for the past two decades, Dobrinka Tabakova (b1980) brings together several of the facets that...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2013

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Symphonies of Wind Instruments

When he heard Herbert von Karajan’s 1963 Rite of Spring with the Berlin Philharmonic, Stravinsky – who made several offish...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 'Leningrad'

Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle continues to garner critical plaudits and no one collecting the series need feel short-changed by this...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2013

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1. Sonata for Cello and Piano Op 40

Emmanuelle Bertrand is nothing if not a gutsy player. The close-up recording captures her every breath and every rasp of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2013

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherezade Op 35

Best here is the sequence from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which is generally well played, especially...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 4

No doubt critics have been sharpening their pens in anticipation of Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninov concerto cycle, which is bound to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6. Lieutenant Kijé Suite.

Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony may or may not be his finest orchestral work but its unique instrumental texture and curious, elusive...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2013

PENDERECKI Piano Concerto 'Resurrection'. Flute COncerto

Penderecki reminds me of the late Kenny Ball, the British trumpeter who played jazz for people who weren’t remotely interested...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos

Did Joseph II say to Mozart ‘There are simply too many notes’? Or was this dramatic licence from Peter Schaffer?...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2013

MOERAN Cello Concerto. Serenade in G

Moeran conceived the wistfully lyrical Cello Concerto (arguably his supreme achievement) in 1945 for his wife, the Irish cellist Peers...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013

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