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BIZET Symphony No 2 GOUNOD Petite Symphonie (Leleux)

François Leleux’s first album with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra flanks Gounod’s Petite Symphonie for nine wind instruments with Bizet’s Symphony...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020

BERNSTEIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Lindberg)

Whenever I listen to the First Symphony I am mindful of how dramatically Bernstein started as he meant to go...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Symphony No 7 (Barenboim)

Here’s a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto that conveys a palpable sense of occasion – and with good reason, as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 2 GRIEG Holberg Suite

Martha Argerich returns for the umpteenth time to Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, a work she has championed throughout her career...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Steven Hough)

It is a tribute to the quality of Stephen Hough’s musicianship that the new cycle’s most memorable performance should be...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020

JS BACH; VIVALDI Double Concertos for Violin and Cello Piccolo

This disc will divide listeners. There are many who, no doubt, will find the performances exciting. Certainly, at no point...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020

ADAMS Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?

This makes for an intriguing listen straight after DG’s American recording of Thomas Adès’s new Piano Concerto – not least...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020

Piotr Beczała: Vincerò!

Readers may recall reports of an amusing incident at the Wiener Staatsoper back in 2016 when Jonas Kaufmann was ‘stood...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020

SORABJI Sequentia Cyclica

‘Because it’s there’ was George Mallory’s response as to why he was climbing Everest, yet it might equally apply to...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete piano sonatas (Konstantin Lifschitz)

Konstantin Lifschitz is the latest pianist to offer a Beethoven cycle to tie in with the composer’s 250th-anniversary year. These...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020

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