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POULENC Sinfoniettas (Slobodeniouk) Orchestral Works (Tovey)

These overlapping collections reflect persuasive if divergent ideas about programme-building and interpretation. Common to both is Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, written for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

MENDELSSOHN Orchestral Works (Biondi)

Unless I’m mistaken, aside from their 2018 account of Verdi’s Macbeth in its original 1847 version, Fabio Biondi and Europa...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Rattle)

In a matter of only weeks before this recording arrived for review I’d been privileged to witness two great (and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022

KABELÁČ Mystery of Time

The music of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-79, not 1891-1953 as the booklet’s biography has it) really should be far better known...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Solomon)

Haydn’s three ‘Times of Day’ Symphonies must be among the most-recorded of all the works of his very early period....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

GIPPS Orchestral Works (Gamba)

Although as a pianist she was virtuoso enough to play concertos by Brahms and Glazunov, the oboe was Ruth Gipps’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries (Rachel Barton Pine)

This is the 25th-anniversary reissue of Rachel Barton Pine’s groundbreaking album ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)

I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 (Dunedin Consort)

Remembering their recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (A/14) and violin concertos (4/16), what else are we to expect from John...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

ADÈS Märchentänze (Collon)

On first glance, you crave some meat here. Where’s the main course? If Nicholas Collon’s Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra can...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022

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