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TANGUY Clarinet Concerto. Violin Concerto No 2

Currently, the Presto Classical database lists some dozen albums of the music of Éric Tanguy (b1968), but only one other...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

SCHUMANN Complete works for cello (Ella van Poucke)

Born in Amsterdam in 1994, educated at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the recipient of a clutch of musical prizes,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 3. Urbs Roma (Kantorow)

By all rights, Urbs Roma should be Saint Saëns’s Second Symphony – or even, if one counts the delightfully precocious...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021

SAINT-GEORGES Symphonies Concertante (Halász)

The life-story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges reads like an Alexandre Dumas tale. Born on Christmas Day 1745 to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

ROMBERG Cello Concertos Nos 4 & 6 (Raphael Wallfisch)

It drives me insane when a CD booklet does not list the orchestral players by name. How am I to...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2021

PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Sonata for Solo Violin (Tianwa Yang)

These are imaginative performances, well worth sampling even if the coupling is far from unique. In the 1990s Tedi Papavrami...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2021

IVANOVS Symphonies Nos 15 & 16 (Kuzma)

Time was that the fabled name of Jānis Ivanovs (1906 83) was uttered, if at all, only after slightly less...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021

HAYDN Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 4 STRAVINSKY Divertimento (Rosanne Philippens)

This is Rosanne Philippens’s first album with The Vondel Strings, a new ensemble which she founded last year during the...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Poschner)

Previous recordings of the Bruckner symphonic canon have sometimes included the unnumbered F minor and D minor entries in the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Thielemann)

Few performances thought worthy of being preserved on record are without merit. There are occasions, however, as in this account...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2021

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