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ELGAR; FARR Cello Concertos (Sébastien Hurtaud)

Three of Gareth Farr’s great-great-uncles fought and died in the First World War. The New Zealand composer’s rhapsodic, darkly coloured...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

COPLAND Clarinet Concerto STRAUSS Duet-Concertino

The four works on this release, two of them showcasing the talents of the late Ernst Ottensamer, were all composed...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto after Op 25. Haydn Variations

Mindful of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1937 orchestration of Brahms’s Op 25 Piano Quartet, Austrian composer Richard Dünser was initially ambivalent about...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Joseph Moog)

Joseph Moog, Nicholas Milton and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie follow up their distinctive recording of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto (2/18)...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Janowski)

Listening to this new Beethoven symphony cycle alongside Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s (Profil, 6/19), it’s difficult to believe one’s hearing the same...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 4-6 BARRY Conquest of Ireland (Adès)

I found Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia’s interpretations in the first volume of their Beethoven cycle (7/20)unrelentingly hard-driven, so...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Symphonic Dances (Nézet-Séguin)

There can be no underestimating the extraordinary legacy surrounding Rachmaninov and Philadelphia. That he composed the Third Symphony and Symphonic...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021

The Singing Guitar

Conspirare’s new recording featuring the Austin-based choral group and three guitar quartets bookends impressive large-scale works by Nico Muhly and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 01/2021

CERVETTI Mortal Dreams

Sergio Cervetti (b1940) turned 80 last year (his birthday fell on November 9) and remains as active as ever, evident...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2021

Duo Stephanie & Saar: Cavatine

The late Leon Fleisher encouraged Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia to explore Beethoven’s string quartets in four-hand arrangements for performing...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

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