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SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5, 6 & 7 (Hughes)

The final instalment in Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle features the composer’s last three symphonies, and very impressive performances they...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 & 11 (Rozhdestvensky)

I don’t think anybody would deny that there were times when Gennady Rozhdestvensky wore his craft so lightly, so casually,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 (Savall)

Schubert can hardly be thought to have become caught up in anniversary fervour but a generous production of symphonic recordings...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022

RAVEL Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (Trevino)

I think it’s fair to say that I greeted the inaugural Ravel collection from this source (7/21) with ‘modified rapture’....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Isle of the Dead (Wilson)

We might love Rachmaninov for his big tunes but he is also a great master of building epic spans from...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022

MOZART Piano Concerto No 23. Symphony No 40 (Chauvin)

Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge reprise the overture-concerto-symphony formula of their previous Mozart recording (1/22) with a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Bychkov)

The real pleasure here lies with the Czech Philharmonic – something individual, characterful and homespun in a world dominated by...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022

KHACHATURIAN The Concertante Works for Piano (Iyad Sughayer)

Khachaturian lost out to himself in the Stalin Prize stakes of 1940. His ambitious Piano Concerto looked like a sure...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022

ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 2, 3 & 7 (Poga)

This release concludes Ondine’s edition of the symphonies by Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) who, born in Latvia and educated in Paris,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022

HELLENDAAL 6 Grand Concertos

I am astounded that on this recording there are only two cellists and a single bassist in the orchestra of...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022

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