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WALTON Violin Concerto RESPIGHI Violin Sonata (Liya Petrova)

What a shrewd coupling: seemingly unlikely bedfellows united not just by dint of having both been written in Italy (the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

TAKEMITSU Spectral Canticle

These belles quarts d’heure follow a tried-and-tested recipe, coming out a little differently each time. On a blind tasting you...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Nézet-Séguin)

I would not have had Nézet-Séguin down as a natural Sibelian, and I would have been completely wrong. Too few...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 14. Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva (Storgårds)

With Shostakovich’s word-setting what happens between the words is, more than with any other composer I know (with the exception...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 15 (Noseda)

Noseda served part of his apprenticeship under Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre, and his concerts as principal conductor of the...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2023

PRICE Piano Concerto in One Movement. Symphony No 1 (Jeneba Kanneh-Mason)

It’s strange, but after decades of neglect the music of Florence Price seems uncannily familiar. The soulful themes with their...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 23 & 27 (Elizabeth Sombart)

'Pass over Sombart’ was Jed Distler’s verdict on the French pianist’s Beethoven concertos in December 2020. In the company of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2023

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Netopil)

The orchestra that brought Mahler’s Sixth into the world might indeed claim some historical kinship with his music – but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023

LIEBERMANN Violin Concerto. 2 Chamber Concertos. Air (Aiman Mussakhajayeva)

Blue Griffin’s ambitious programme of Lowell Liebermann world premieres is dominated by the immersive relationships the soloists develop with the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2023

KHACHATURIAN Symphony No 3. Gayaneh Suite No 3

If you’re going to play Khachaturian’s noisy Third Symphony (1947), with its 15 trumpet parts, you need to fully commit,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2023

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