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HINDEMITH Kammermusic I-III. Kleine Kammermusik

There are two basic options for collecting the Kammermusik concertos (1921-27) on disc: either the set of all seven works,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

GOULD Symphonettes Nos 2-4. Spirituals for Orchestra (Fagen)

The ‘Symphonette’ was Morton Gould’s tongue-in-cheek updating of the ‘Sinfonietta’ to create smaller, American-style orchestral works in a lighter vein...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020

GERSHWIN Complete works for piano and orchestra (Cecile Licad)

If you want to hear Rhapsody in Blue with the percussion predominating, the opening clarinet glissando stretched out to infinity...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2020

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

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