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Franck by Franck

Mikko Franck and his French Radio Philharmonic turn to César Franck for their first recording for Alpha, coupling the Symphony...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020

MOZART; DU PUY; WEBER Bassoon Concertos

Bram van Sambeek extracts maximum characterisation from the two peaks of the Classical/Romantic bassoon concerto repertoire. Weber revised his 1811...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020

DOHNÁNYI The Veil of Pierrette (Matiakh)

What was it with the fin de siècle and sinister pierrots? Schoenberg had his moonstruck clown, Stravinsky his Petrushka; and...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020

BRANDL Symphony Concertante. Symphony in D major

Indentured between 1789 and 1806 as director of music to the court of an apparently unmusical and ungrateful prince in...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

BENNETT Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (John Wilson)

I love the analogy Richard Rodney Bennett made when describing his multifaceted career as ‘different rooms, albeit in the same...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2020

Beethoven Reimagined

Like Ravel and Stravinsky after him, Beethoven thought pianistically even when composing for the orchestra, and he wasn’t averse to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Divertimento (Järvi)

Paavo Järvi’s NHK Symphony Orchestra pride themselves on their Central European sound, particularly their cultured, rounded string tone, and perform...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-3 BARRY Piano Concerto

In a recent Gramophone interview (5/20), Thomas Adès conjured the image of Gerald Barry ‘prowling around rehearsals with a metronome...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Francesco Corti)

This is not announced as Vol 1 of a cycle, but Francesco Corti’s booklet note reveals that it is when...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020

The Cleveland Orchestra: A New Century

When Franz Welser-Möst’s contract next comes up for renewal in 2027, he will be the longest-serving music director in the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020

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