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WALTON 'A Centenary Celebration' Façade. Henry V

The appearance of this Somm release marks 100 years since the premiere of the brilliant 19-year-old William Walton’s Façade. It...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2022

VIVALDI L’estro armonico JS BACH Keyboard arrangements

We’re so familiar with Vivaldi these days that it’s easy to forget what an impact his first set of concertos,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 (Noseda)

There is much to commend in Noseda’s account of this most extraordinary symphony – and I speak as one whose...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2022

NIELSEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Johan Dalene)

Johan Dalene’s Nielsen Concerto was, to some extent, a known quantity. The young Swede won the Nielsen Competition in 2019...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022

KORNGOLD Complete Incidental Music - Much Ado About Nothing. der Vampir

Four decades into the Korngold revival, it’s a pleasant surprise to be confronted with something completely unfamiliar. In this case,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2022

GUNNING Flute Concertino. Clarinet Concerto. Guitar Concerto

The reissue of Christopher Gunning’s Discovery releases on the Signum label continues with a trio of concertos to which Edward...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2022

GERSHWIN; RACHMANINOV Rhapsody (Martin James Bartlett)

I did not think Martin James Bartlett’s debut album for Warner Classics (6/19) showed him in the best possible light....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022

'Debussy Orchestrated'

For their latest album, Pascal Rophé and his Loire orchestra turn to music by Debussy originally written for piano but...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 (Thielemann)

It would be idle to pretend that this latest addition to Sony’s Bruckner cycle with Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2022

BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 'die Nullte' (Poschner)

The earliest of Bruckner’s three symphonies in D minor, No 0 or Die Nullte was written shortly after the composer’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2022

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