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BRITTEN Winter Words

Nicholas Phan’s debut recital recording in an all-Britten programme initially seems strategically quixotic. Though American singers do justice to Britten,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012

BACH Cantatas and Arias

There are four extant cantatas that Bach composed for solo alto voice. Three were recorded by Andreas Scholl in collaboration...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012

Danças Brasileiras

Those aware of the international orchestral protests surrounding conductor Roberto Minczuk might be surprised at seeing a new release from...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012

VIVALDI Concertos for Lute, Strings and Continuo

It’s striking just how vividly Vivaldi’s instrumentation – which dictates harmonic voicing and texture and melodic shape and compass –...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue:

VAN DER AA Up-Close

Michel van der Aa’s enterprising synthesis of sound and vision continues with a work which transcends its hybrid nature in...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5, Op.64 SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture, Op 96

One of the more striking of the slew of Tchaikovsky symphony performances over the last few years came from this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue:

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 5

Osmo Vänskä’s revelatory first Sibelius symphony cycle, made with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s (reissued last year) formed...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue:

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos Nos 1 and 2

Though Mstislav Rostropovich may still rule the roost in ‘his’ concertos, none of his recordings can boast modern sound, let...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012

RUDERS Symphony No 4. Trio Transcendentale. Songs and Rhapsodies

Ruders’s Fourth is an organ symphony in name and also in fact. It is certainly not a concerto – the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2012

NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 6

More fiery and dramatic Nielsen from Sir Colin Davis and the LSO in the second instalment of their cycle of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2012

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