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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

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

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