Search the Reviews Database

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Fischer)

As Adám Fischer’s Düsseldorf Mahler cycle has evolved, a clearer picture has emerged of his choices and priorities. He’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

HOSOKAWA Lotus under the moonlight MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 (Momo Kodama)

This is a rather belated release of a live 2006 concert that pairs a new Mozart-inspired work, receiving its Japanese...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021

EÖTVÖS Alhambra Concerto STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps (Isabelle Faust)

There are many points of contact between Peter Eötvös’s Third Violin Concerto Alhambra (here receiving its premiere recording) and Stravinsky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

Orion Weiss: Piano Protagonists

I can offer two possible reasons why it took around seven decades for Korngold’s 1923 Concerto for the Left Hand...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 (Thielemann)

This second release in Christian Thielemann’s new cycle of the Bruckner symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic was recorded in the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Concertos (Gil Shaham. Liya Petrova)

Two fascinating releases, both of which utterly confound expectations. The high point, for me, is the slow movement of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Theatre Music, Vol 2 (Bosch)

The accepted view is that Beethoven’s heroic style died a heroic death in the drum-banging, flag-waving political projects he took...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Igor Levit; Xiaohan Wang)

In 2007 Naxos issued a set of live performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos stemming from that year’s Bonn...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

BARRY The Eternal Recurrence BEETHOVEN Symphonies 7-9 (Adès)

The blossoming rapport between Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia documented on the first two volumes of their Beethoven cycle...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2021

Mozart Momentum 1785

How inspiring that something so enriching should have come out of lockdown, for the three concertos and the Masonic Funeral...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021

---

 

Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews

Gramophone Guides

---

---

---

---

---

---