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TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty – A Dramatic Symphony (Järvi)

Sleeping Beauty – A Dramatic Symphony? Alarm bells start to ring. One of the greatest classical ballets in the repertoire...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021

SCHUBERT The Symphonies (Harnoncourt)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt has already left us memorable, norm-defying sets of Schubert symphonies with the Concertgebouw (Teldec, 12/93) and the Berlin...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Holliger)

Mere weeks after the appearance of René Jacobs’s recording of Schubert’s Second and Third Symphonies with the B’Rock Orchestra, the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2021

MYASKOVSKY Symphony No 21 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Petrenko)

What better coupling for Prokofiev’s familiar Fifth Symphony than the 21st by his closest friend? Myaskovsky’s melancholy three-part, one-movement score...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2021

LIEBERSON Songs of Love and Sorrow

In the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism, the six realms – three good and three evil – delineate a life cycle...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021

ELMAS Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

Hyperion keeps pulling obscure Romantic concertos out of the woodwork, this time with two by Armenian composer Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937)....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 (Thielemann)

This is the first release in a cycle of the Bruckner symphonies by Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, an...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2021

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Sunwook Kim)

Sunwook Kim’s second recording of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto in a little over three years, with the Staatskapelle Dresden and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021

BENNETT Psychedelia (Brophy)

When I first heard Ed Bennett’s music several years ago, I was intrigued to hear a composer so adept at...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Symphony No 7 (Lahav Shani)

Multitalented pianist, conductor and former Israel Philharmonic double-bass player Lahav Shani was just 29 when it was announced in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2021

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