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Annelien Van Wauwe: Belle Époque

Think of La belle époque and I’m not sure Johannes Brahms necessarily springs to mind. Nevertheless, his First Clarinet Sonata,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Leila Schayegh)

If you are a fan of The Four Seasons – and its popularity certainly doesn’t stop it from being a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2019

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra (Chailly)

Four years ago, Riccardo Chailly conducted a series of Strauss tone poems in his final London concerts with the Leipzig...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 1, 3 & 8 (de Vriend)

It barely feels as long ago as February that the first volume in Jan Willem de Vriend’s Schubert symphony cycle...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019

SAWER Rumpelstiltskin

David Sawer describes his Rumpelstiltskin – referencing the typically macabre and moralistic Grimms’ fairy tale of that name – as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2019

SAARIAHO Circle Map, Neiges. Graal Théâtre

Kaija Saariaho (b1952) has come a fair way since the works that established her reputation in the mid-1980s, where the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos 1 & 3 "Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival"

Trifonov’s Rachmaninov is unlike anyone else’s. Whether that’s down to wilfulness and self-regard or individuality and integrity is open to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 24 (Shaham. Hochman)

The G major and C minor Piano Concertos were last paired on disc by Lang Lang and Nikolaus Harnoncourt in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019

MAHLER Sympony No 6 (1971 & 2013, Gielen)

Summing up Wilhelm Furtwängler’s wartime concerts in Berlin (5/19) I found reason to refer to Michael Gielen’s valedictory appearance at...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Nelsons)

How refreshing that Andris Nelsons comes to the Beethoven symphonies with no discernible interpretative axe to grind. He seems unconcerned...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019

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