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HAYDN Symphonies Nos 43 & 49 (Podger)

Rachel Podger trails her assumption of the role of Principal Guest Director of Tafelmusik this autumn with a pairing of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

ELGAR; WALTON Cello Concertos (Gautier Capuçon)

A dream team in the making, I suspect. Capuçon and Pappano may be collaborating here for the first time but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (Benedict Kloeckner. Raphaela Gromes)

It must be a rare cellist who doesn’t feel deeply about Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, that lyrical cello song wrapped in...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2024

DALE Night Seasons

Composer Rebecca Dale (b1985) first came to the wider concert-going and record-buying public’s attention with her large-scale, heartfelt Materna Requiem...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Jurowski)

Other than the brief Symphonisches Präludium (Pentatone, 11/17), Bruckner has been absent from Vladimir Jurowski’s discography until now. The symphonies...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Eschenbach)

What a difference a conductor makes. Where the Bamberg SO’s 2022 recording of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony under its current Chief...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2024

BRITTEN the Prince of the Pagodas

Having just said a very fond farewell to Mark Elder as Music Director after nearly a quarter of a century...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

BRAHMS Piano Concertos (Igor Levit)

Igor Levit has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most intellectual of pianists – a ‘thinking virtuoso’ (David Fanning,...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024

RAVEL Complete Works with Piano (François-Xavier Poizat)

Apparently 2025’s Maurice Ravel 150th-anniversary festivities are starting well in advance, with François-Xavier Poizat at the front of the line....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Tallā Rouge: Shapes in Collective Space

For further evidence of the porous borders that lie between classical, contemporary, folk, pop and non-Western musics, look no further...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2024

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