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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Sokhiev)

There’s a great deal to admire here. Some individual new thinking, too. In some ways the Tenth is the most...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2022

MARTINAITYTĖ Ex Tenebris Lux

Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b1973), a Lithuanian composer living in New York, has been building a considerable reputation for herself in recent...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022

MALIPIERO Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2. Per Una Favola Cavalleresca

Malipiero often appears to be a chameleon, as Naxos’s fine recordings of his work over recent years have demonstrated, but...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Piano Sonata (Alexander Ullman)

Not surprisingly for the winner of the Budapest 2011 and Utrecht 2017 Liszt Competitions, the British pianist Alexander Ullman, who...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022

IRELAND Orchestral Works (Wilson)

Anyone who invested in John Wilson’s admirable Ireland release with the Hallé (12/09) will naturally be wondering whether it’s worth...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2022

HAYDN Complete Symphonies, Vol 26 (Klumpp)

Pity poor HobI:107, aka Symphony ‘A’. Long thought to be a quartet (Op 1 No 5) rather than a symphony...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Poschner)

On completion in 2024, Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies will include all three versions of the Fourth Symphony....

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 WEBERN Concerto Op 24 (Pina Napolitano)

Reviewing Pina Napolitano’s first ‘Brahms the Progressive’ recording (7/18), I wrote how the pianist seemed more confident and commanding in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Blomstedt)

Herbert Blomstedt is a member of a much-respected senior ‘rostrum elite’ (Haitink, Boult, Böhm, Wand and the like) that over...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 STUCKY Silent Spring

Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven does not ‘speak for itself’, whatever that is supposed to mean. Indeed, this Pastoral delivers something to...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2022

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