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MARTIN Violin Concerto. Esquisse (Svetlin Roussev)

Among Frank Martin’s more recorded works, his Violin Concerto (1951) has seldom been revived in concert; a pity, given its...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021

A LLOYD WEBBER 'Symphonic Suites'

The symphonic suite has quite a pedigree, from those seeking to bask in the drama and hit tunes of favourite...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2021

GUIDO; VIVALDI The Four Seasons (2 CD + DVD)

You can always count on the Château de Versailles team to come up with an eminently classy-feeling musical bundle and...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021

FARRENC Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Equilbey)

Louise Farrenc’s three symphonies represent a double triumph: over sexual prejudice, in an age when female creative artists suffered from...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021

DOHNÁNYI Tante Simona. American Rhapsody. Suite WEINER Serenade

Talk about coincidental musical similarities. The opening of the overture to Dohnányi’s one-act opera buffa Tante Simona (1911 12) is...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2021

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2. Four Scherzos (Seong-Jin Cho)

My immediate reaction to the opening track – the first of the Four Scherzos – was ‘fast, furious, fantastic fingers,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Mena)

This recording was made under studio conditions a month before Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic performed the symphony at...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

BOËLLMANN Symphony. Variations Symphoniques. Quatre Pièces Brèves

Léon Boëllmann’s Suite gothique has long been a staple of the organ repertoire and a number of his chamber works...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021

BEETHOVEN Overtures. Wellington's Victory (Bosch)

Past a sonorous first chord, the rhetorically moulded opening to Egmont may take the unwary listener by surprise, but the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2021

ANDRÉ Musica Viva

Mark Andre (b1964) waited a long time before composing his first string quartet, iv 13 (Miniaturen). A clear reference is...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 10/2021

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