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GERSHWIN; RAVEL Piano Concertos (Pascal Rogé)

This Oehms two-disc set from the pianist Pascal Rogé, who turned 70 this spring, combines the Ravel G major and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2021

Nicola Benedetti: Baroque

What a difference a decade makes. Over recent years I’ve become so used to Nicola Benedetti’s concerto releases covering repertoire...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021

FAGERLUND Nomade. WaterAtlas

We’ll get to the cello concerto later because the main event here is Water Atlas, the final part of Sebastian...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2021

Blaž Šparovec: Clarinet Concertos; Joséphine Olech: Flute Concertos

One of the recent developments in the history of the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition is that the winners of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2021

COLL Violin Concerto (Patricia Kopatchinskaja)

Earlier this year, Francisco Coll appeared as composer/conductor on an Alpha album featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta and the chamber...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1. Waltzes Op 39 (Emmanuel Despax)

Emmanuel Despax offers a heartfelt tribute to his recording team and fellow musicians in this new recording of Brahms’s First...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021

BEETHOVEN; SCHNITTKE Violin Concertos (Vadim Gluzman)

First let me pose a question regarding the function of oddball concerto cadenzas, when and where to use them. Outstretching,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Medea. A Hand of Bridge (Rose)

A monodrama, a ballet and a mini-opera. Three faces of Samuel Barber ‘in camera’. One might expect a unique offering...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2021

Sueye Park: Journey Through a Century

This is sensational! In welcoming Korean violinist Sueye Park’s BIS album of the complete Paganini Caprices back in January 2018,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021

Kinga Augustyn: Turning in Time

Heritage and training play significant roles in Kinga Augustyn’s remarkable recording of unaccompanied violin works by 20th- and 21st-century composers....

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2021

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