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MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings. Octet Op 20

Mendelssohn’s Octet can present a problem of balance should the players not be careful enough about dynamic levels, and if...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013

MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 Op 25

Sony gives Martin Stadtfeld more prominent billing than the composer, whom they somewhat perversely refer to by his baptismal name...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Like all great musicians, Vladimir Jurowski trusts his own instincts implicitly, and on the whole I do, too. But there...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013

LUTOSŁAWSKI Symphonies 1 -4

Part new release, part reissue, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Lutosπawski symphony cycle provides a refined but often exciting take on an impressive...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013

LALO Symphonie Espagnole Op 21. Namouna Suites 1 & 2

The performance of Symphonie espagnole is billed as departing from the way it’s generally played in the direction of being...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013

d'INDY Orchestral Works Vol 5

The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s invaluable survey of d’Indy’s orchestral scores here reaches Vol 5 and one of those few works...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013

HAYDN Concertos for Cello and Orchestra Hobs VIIb:1 & 2

Pedestrian collaboration hampers Jian Wang in most of the First Concerto. Muhai Tang binds the music to the bar-line; and...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2013

Swedish Concertos for Saxophone

When John-Edward Kelly first heard the name of Anders Eliasson – via another composer featured here, Sven-David Sandström – it...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2013

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Jamie Walton’s latest anthology for Signum once again shows him to be a impressive performer in terms of technical acumen,...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013

G COATES At Midnight

During the early 1960s Gloria Coates discovered the glissando. No big deal there, you might think. Xenakis had already determined...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013

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