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TROTIGNON 'Anima'

For those unfamiliar with his name, Baptiste Trotignon emerged during the first decade of this century as one of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022

RAVEL Orchestral Works (Wilson)

John Wilson is on a mission to bring his restorative ear to bear on Ravel’s orchestral catalogue, so expect more...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2022

MOZART; STRAUSS Oboe Concertos (Cristina Gómez Godoy)

The Spanish oboist Cristina Gómez Godoy (b1990) was a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra for many years, as well...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

MOZART Symphonies Nos 38 & 39 (Manze)

Andrew Manze follows up his live Hanover recordings of Symphonies Nos 40 and 41 (4/19) with their two numerical predecessors,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022

MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral music Vol 3 (Hobson)

André Previn once said to me that ‘just because a composer likes to write a sound that ravishes the ear...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

MARTINAITIS Seasons and Serenades - Works For String Orchestra

Lithuania’s senior composers are little heard outside their Baltic environs – not least Algirdas Martinaitis (b1950), whose music has not...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022

ĶENIÑŠ Symphonies Nos 5 & 8. Aria (Poga)

After his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies from Ondine and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, here we have the Fifth and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022

ENESCU Violin Concerto. Phantasy For Piano & Orchestra (Ruzicka)

Here we have two fascinating early works by Enescu not previously recorded. Enescu was already a graduate of the Vienna...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2022

ELIASSON Symphonies Nos 3 & 4. Trombone Concerto (Christian Lindberg)

Rather like Per Nørgård in Denmark, Anders Eliasson spent much of his career in Sweden pursuing and researching a compositional...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022

DOHNÁNYI Concertos; Variations on a Nursery Song

Spoiler alert. If you don’t know the opening three or four minutes of Variations on a Nursery Theme, skip this...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022

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