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TÜÜR Mythos

It’s almost an indulgence to put three such significant, non-concertante orchestral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, played by a virtuoso orchestra,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No 1 (Baiba Skride) TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

A cultivated rather than hell-for-leather Tchaikovsky Fifth was the first audio-only recording project of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO years (Orfeo, 10/09)....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (Storgårds)

Each time I hear the opening of this symphony – in filmic terms a long slow pan across the frozen...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020

POULENC Piano Concerto. Concert champêtre

The incomparable Mark Bebbington, to whom British music owes more than a tip of the hat, turns his attention to...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24 (Richard-Hamelin)

In these unworldly times of enforced social lockdown it’s interesting what gives emotional succour. I’d been revelling in the discovery...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 23 (Ben Kim)

Ben Kim (b1983, Portland, Oregon) studied with Leon Fleisher and has been a protégé of Martha Argerich. His recording activity...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2020

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Netopil)

Here’s a Mahler Sixth that comes with its own historical context. Unlikely as it may now seem, Essen was where...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020

MACMILLAN Symphony No 5. The Sun Danced (Christophers)

To Mahler’s well-known remark that the symphony must be like the world, containing everything, James MacMillan appears to be finding...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2020

GOEHR After The Waking MATTHEWS Postludes

The past decade has seen contemporary music accorded much greater presence on Wigmore Hall programmes, the three pieces featured here...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020

FARRENC Symphony No 1 (König)

Though Louise Farrenc’s chamber music, much of it long neglected, has gradually been restored to the repertory in recent years,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2020

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