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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

GOMPPER Cello Concerto. Double Bass Concerto. Moonburst

Whereas on the previous disc of music by David Gompper (b1954) that I reviewed (3/19) the three works were all...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021

ELGAR; MOZART; TCHAIKOVSKY Serenades

The pandemic dampened many musical celebrations last year, but the Zurich Chamber Orchestra – or at least its string players...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021

CATOIRE Piano Concerto. Piano Quintet. Piano Quartet

A couple of years ago I was much impressed by an account of Catoire’s Piano Quintet led by Bengt Forsberg...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 8 (Nelsons)

First create your sound palette, then envision the whole. In this new account of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, Andris Nelsons and...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2021

BRUCKNER The Symphonies. The Story. The Film (Gergiev)

The 19-year-old Furtwängler made his professional debut conducting the Kaim Orchestra, forerunner to the Munich Philharmonic, in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Concertgebouw Orchestra)

One orchestra and nine conductors, and unlike the recent Bruckner cycle from Berlin (3/20), it’s remarkable how the Concertgebouw players...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021

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