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OQUIN; PARKER; ROUSE Organ Concertos (Paul Jacobs)

Set down piecemeal over four and a half years, this collection straddles boundaries but certainly merits a hearing. Its common...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2024

MOZART Clarinet Concerto. Symphonies Nos 29 & 33 (Forck)

The Berlin Academy of Ancient Music’s sound is defined by its violins – slightly tart, vibrato-lite, with a pronounced ‘tick’...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2024

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream (Savall)

>Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their record label Alia Vox with Mendelssohn’s...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2024

MACDOWELL Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Wilson)

Scarcely a month passes, it seems, without a new release from John Wilson. Whether in the role of sorcerer, illuminating...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2024

KAPUSTIN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 6 (Frank Dupree)

Frank Dupree here continues his cycle of Kapustin concertos with Nos 2 and 6, plus a sprinkling of fillers, nicely...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2024

STRAUSS Don Quixote IBERT Le Chevalier Errant (Szeps-Znaider)

First on this recent Channel Classics release the rare and hugely enjoyable four-movement suite from Jacques Ibert’s ‘choreodrama’ with chorus...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2024

FRANCK Symphony in D minor FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande (Barenboim)

On the surface of it Daniel Barenboim and the César Franck Symphony in D minor seem like natural bedfellows. If...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2024

DVOŘÁK Legends & Rhapsodies (Netopil)

We don’t hear enough of Dvořák’s Slavonic Rhapsodies and I think I know why. Listen to the opening of the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2024

Americascapes 2: American Opus - Walker, Crumb, Revueltas

My heart sank a bit when I saw George Crumb’s A Haunted Landscape (1984) on this programme. Much as I...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2024

BOWEN; WALTON Viola Concertos (Diyang Mei)

Viola player Diyang Mei is only 30 years old but already principal viola of the Berlin Philharmonic. His first concerto...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024

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