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BRIAN Symphonies Nos 3 & 17 (Pope)

There is a good case for considering Havergal Brian’s Third Symphony (1931 32) his first symphonic masterpiece. Beautifully balanced, dramatic...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022

BRAHMS; SCHUMANN 'Lyrical Echoes'

This is the second volume in a series exploring, as Alexander Shelley puts it, ‘the closely intertwined personal and artistic...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Furtwängler)

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022

AUCOIN 'Orphic Moments'

Not long turned 30, Massachusetts-born composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is easily (perhaps too easily) pigeonholed as the Thomas Adès of his...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022

LECLAIR; LOCATELLI; VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Théotime Langlois de Swarte)

I’ll start by getting all the bad things about this album out of the way. We are told that Théotime...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022

Pauline Kim Harris: Wild at Heart

The American musicologist Raymond Erickson has documented more than 200 versions of JS Bach’s Chaconne, ranging from the original for...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2022

D WHITE Complete Organ Music (Daryl Robinson)

David Ashley White’s solo organ works comprise what the composer calls a ‘small but indispensable’ part of his extensive catalogue...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2022

PERSICHETTI Organ Works (Iain Quinn)

This is an intelligently programmed album, representing about half of the music Vincent Persichetti (1915 87), who was a church...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022

MOZART 'Post Scriptum' (Sergei Kvitko)

Embellishing Mozart’s works for piano and orchestra is nothing new, yet Sergei Kvitko goes the extra mile throughout the three...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

BRIDGE Piano Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Sonata No 2 (Sally Pinkas)

The piano sonatas of Shostakovich (his Second) and Frank Bridge are respectively dedicated to friends lost in war, and make...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2022

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