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WILSON Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Macdonald)

Born to British parents in the USA in 1927, Thomas Wilson moved to the United Kingdom as an infant and...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2021

TCHAIKOVKSY Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Nelsons)

The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

SCRIABIN Symphony No 2. Le Poème de l'Extase (Katayenko)

For some years Dmitry Kitaenko has been revisiting his core repertoire, often in the company of the Gürzenich Orchestra, which...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021

RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez (Jacob Kellermann)

‘Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object’, wrote William Hazlitt. Gusto defines these performances – better than...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2021

Marco Albonetti: Romance del Diablo - The Music of Piazzolla

Piazzolla never employed the saxophone in any of his own various tango ensembles, most likely because its reedy tone would...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021

MOZART Violin Concertos Vol 1 (Aisslinn Nosky)

The first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos from Aislinn Nosky turns out to be two-thirds reissues, the Third Concerto and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021

D MATTHEWS A Vision of the Sea (van Steen)

David Matthews continues to build on the rich British symphonic tradition, offering a principled alternative to those 20th-century styles that...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2021

LOCATELLI Il labirinto armonico: Three Violin Concertos (Ilya Gringolts)

Bergamo-born violin virtuoso Pietro Locatelli once described in a 1711 letter how, to improve his violin-playing, he used to practise...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2021

LISZT Hungarian Fantasy (Goran Filipec)

The Croation pianist Goran Filipec – whose contributions thus far to the Naxos Liszt series include sets of the Paganini...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

LINDBERG Liverpool Lullabies. Waves of Wollongong (Lindberg)

Given his prowess as trombonist and abilities as conductor, Christian Lindberg could hardly be called a ‘jack of all trades’...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2021

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