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VASKS Viola Concerto (Maxim Rysanov)

Most works by Vasks present, in one form or another, a journey towards the light – that of political emancipation...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020

SØRENSEN Concertos (Skalstad)

Concerto form has provided Bent Sørensen with staging posts along his career beginning with his breakthrough violin concerto Sterbende Gärten...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

Diehard LSO mavens won’t need reminding that their orchestra has collaborated with many of the Fifth’s most celebrated advocates. These...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos (Ibragimova)

If there’s one factor above all that sets these performances apart it’s the osmosis between soloist and conductor. There’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2020

SCHOENBERG Erwartung. Pelleas und Melisande

You would be hard-put to know from listening to Pelleas und Melisande, even from following the score, that Schoenberg really...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

ROSE Orchestral Works

Although his prowess as a choral conductor has long been recognised (his performances with Singcircle of Stockhausen’s Stimmung resonate 35...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2020

MUSSORGSKY Pictures RAVEL La Valse (Roth)

At just over 44 minutes, this new album from Les Siècles could be considered short measure, but the performance of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

HINDEMITH Kammermusic I-III. Kleine Kammermusik

There are two basic options for collecting the Kammermusik concertos (1921-27) on disc: either the set of all seven works,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

GOULD Symphonettes Nos 2-4. Spirituals for Orchestra (Fagen)

The ‘Symphonette’ was Morton Gould’s tongue-in-cheek updating of the ‘Sinfonietta’ to create smaller, American-style orchestral works in a lighter vein...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

GERSHWIN Complete works for piano and orchestra (Cecile Licad)

If you want to hear Rhapsody in Blue with the percussion predominating, the opening clarinet glissando stretched out to infinity...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2020

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