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PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos (Maria Milstein)

Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No 2. Symphony No 2 (Andrei Korobeinikov)

Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023

NIELSEN Symophonies Nos 2 & 6 (Luisi)

The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3-5 (Gottfried von der Goltz)

That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 24 & 25 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023

MASKATS Accordion Concerto. Tango. Cantus Diatonicus; My River Runs To Thee

One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023

DURANTE Concerti per archi

‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023

1923 - Le Miroir de Jésus; The Wild Sound of the 20s: Bartók; Krenek; Toch; Weill

‘The Wild Sound of the 20s’ is the subtitle that Bavarian Radio has given a programming strand celebrating the year...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023

BORENSTEIN Piano Concerto. Shirim. Light & Darkness

This album provides an excellent opportunity to hear three recent works by the Israeli-French-British composer Nimrod Borenstein, all of which...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023

BARTÓK The Wooden Prince. Dance Suite

I’ve yet to see a staged double-bill of Bartók’s symbolist ballet The Wooden Prince and his allegorical operatic masterpiece Duke...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023

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