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SHAPERO Orchestral Works (Rose)

Hearing the opening selection without knowing the composer’s identity, one might venture to guess Stravinsky in regard to the bold...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020

SAINT-SAENS Carnival of the Animals (The Kanneh-Masons)

If you’re looking for a musical stocking-filler for the under-12s in your life, relax: you’ve found it. Here, bright-eyed and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020

PROKOFIEV; STRAVINSKY 'Silver Age' (Daniil Trifonov)

Daniil Trifonov rightly describes Russia’s Silver Age as ‘an increasingly fractured social, political and intellectual environment – a cocktail of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2020

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 - 3 (Litton)

This is the final instalment of Andrew Litton’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, one of the most sonically sophisticated in the lists....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2020

PÄRT Lamentate. Piano Works (Onute Grazinyte)

This is a wondrously thought-provoking anthology of Pärt’s work. It begins with the non-concerto for piano and orchestra Lamentate, the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2020

MOSZKOWSKI Orchestral works Vol 2 (Hobson)

Moszkowski is best known for his myriad short piano pieces. Great pianists of the past from Rachmaninov to Horowitz had...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020

MESSIAEN Turangalîla Symphony (Soddy)

The Turangalîla discography is now so extensive that any addition needs to offer something distinctive. Recorded live in Mannheim, this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020

HINDEMITH Kammermusik (Eschenbach)

Unlike the three concertos on the first volume of Eschenbach’s survey (7/20), those on its successor, Nos 4-7, tend to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020

HAYDN Symphony No 100. Nelson Mass (Christophers)

Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston present a neatly turned-out Military Symphony, closer to the urbanity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020

DELIBES Balet Suites (Järvi)

‘Swan Lake is mere rubbish in comparison with Sylvia’, Tchaikovsky wrote to Nadezhda von Meck in 1877, having just heard...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020

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