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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Inbal)

You would expect a seasoned Mahlerian such as Eliahu Inbal to offer an emotive response to this extraordinary symphony but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

RÓZYCKI; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos (Janusz Wawrowsk)

The press release for this disc reads like a wartime thriller. A violin concerto, composed during the summer of 1944...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2021

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Rouvali)

These days Finnish or Finnish-trained conductors come in all shapes and sizes. That said, the boisterous physicality of Santtu-Matias Rouvali...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2021

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Fischer)

As Adám Fischer’s Düsseldorf Mahler cycle has evolved, a clearer picture has emerged of his choices and priorities. He’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

HOSOKAWA Lotus under the moonlight MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 (Momo Kodama)

This is a rather belated release of a live 2006 concert that pairs a new Mozart-inspired work, receiving its Japanese...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021

EÖTVÖS Alhambra Concerto STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps (Isabelle Faust)

There are many points of contact between Peter Eötvös’s Third Violin Concerto Alhambra (here receiving its premiere recording) and Stravinsky’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2021

Orion Weiss: Piano Protagonists

I can offer two possible reasons why it took around seven decades for Korngold’s 1923 Concerto for the Left Hand...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 (Thielemann)

This second release in Christian Thielemann’s new cycle of the Bruckner symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic was recorded in the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Violin Concertos (Gil Shaham. Liya Petrova)

Two fascinating releases, both of which utterly confound expectations. The high point, for me, is the slow movement of the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN Theatre Music, Vol 2 (Bosch)

The accepted view is that Beethoven’s heroic style died a heroic death in the drum-banging, flag-waving political projects he took...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2021

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