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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Haselböck); 5 & 7 (Manze)

For the final instalment of the ‘Resound Beethoven’ series, recorded in Viennese venues that survive from the composer’s day, Martin...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 2 & 5 (Bezuidenhout)

One of the choicest offerings thus far this celebratory Beethoven year is the powerfully compelling collaboration of Kristian Bezuidenhout and...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2020

ABRAHAMSEN; PESSON; STRASNOY Contemporary Concertos

Alexandre Tharaud has been nothing if not enterprising over his choice of repertoire, and this is equally evident in the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2020

CHOPIN Piano Concertos (Benjamin Grosvenor)

I haven't been this struck by the orchestral expositions to Chopin's concertos since Jun Märkl with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2020

Buzz Brass: Inspirations

Buzz Brass’s previous recordings have included a version of The Planets for an expanded ensemble including organ and ‘Preludes and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

A Black Birch in Winter: American and Estonian Choral Music

Voces Musicales are an Estonian chamber choir founded in 1999. Their only other disc currently available in Presto Classical’s database...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020

REALE Caldera with Ice Cave

In an absorbing album of music written since the turn of the century, Paul Reale displays his Prospero-like command of...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2020

MASLANKA Symphony No 10, 'The River of Time'

When David Maslanka died on August 7, 2017, barely five weeks after his wife and three weeks shy of his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2020

Amy Yang: Resonance

On paper, the idea of Bach’s Fourth Partita and Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze bookending the recorded premiere of Caroline Shaw’s 14-minute Gustave...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2020

Maija Kovalevska: Majesty

The Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska first came to prominence in 2006 when she won Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition, which led...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020

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