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SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 1. Carnival of the Animals (Fischer)

Saint-Saëns was just 15 when he wrote his A major Symphony (1850), and while it’s not notably inventive, the workmanship...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 80, 81 & 99. L'Impatiente

Can it really be only four years since Haydn’s Symphony No 81 finally appeared in a period-instrument recording? And can...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020

HAAPANEN Flute Concerto (Yuki Koyama)

Among the most prominent of younger Finnish composers, Perttu Haapanen (b1972) now has a substantial catalogue and this Ondine release...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

ELLER Symphonic Poems

Ondine’s traversal of orchestral music by Heino Eller (1887-1970), in the company of Olari Elts with the Estonian National Symphony...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

DVORÁK; KHACHATURIAN Violin Concertos (Rachel Barton Pine)

I wasn’t expecting Rachel Barton Pine to be such a persuasive advocate for Khachaturian’s much-maligned Violin Concerto. She’s not a...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

DEBUSSY Nocturnes (Elder)

Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Debussy recordings for the orchestra’s own label have, until now, been centred round Colin Matthews’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Rattle)

What a wonderful symphony this is, its mood not unlike that of some blustery day in the high hills when...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2020

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 1 (Lars Vogt)

For decades it’s been fashionable for pianists, or pianist-conductors, to lead the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven from the keyboard,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Janowski)

Beethoven represents the greatest challenge, said Marek Janowski in a recent interview: quite a claim for an 80-year-old conductor with...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Egmont. The Creatures of Prometheus (Segerstam. Lee)

The ‘Beethoven 2020’ compilers at DG have made a left-field choice in their inclusion of the Egmont music from Claudio...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

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