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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 (Jansons)

What you might call the Mahlerisation of Shostakovich continues its grim march onwards. Forty and fifty years ago, it was...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020

SERKSNYTE Orchestral and Choral Works

Lithuanian new music is coming into its own, an impressive release of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (5/19) now followed by one of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2020

SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 5 (Lortie)

Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos have been well served on disc in recent years, not least by Bertrand Chamayou’s double Gramophone Award...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020

RÖNTGEN Piano Concertos Nos 3, 6 & 7 (Oliver Triendl)

The German-born Dutch composer Julius Röntgen was nothing if not prolific. In addition to some 25 symphonies and three concertos...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

RAVEL Jeux de Miroirs (Javier Perianes)

Fine though it is, this disc suffers, perhaps, from being too self-consciously programmed. Using what is effectively a palindromic structure,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020

PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Fischer)

Thierry Fischer pairs two contrasting Prokofiev film scores in this Utah Symphony release: the gritty, rarely heard cantata Alexander Nevsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020

NORMAN Sustain (Dudamel)

Andrew Norman burst upon the scene a few years ago with the three-movement, 45-minute-long symphony Play (2013, rev 2016), which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Petrenko)

This is one of those discs that commands respect (this conductor is pretty much always a safe investment) without setting...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020

MOZART Youth Symphonies (von der Goltz)

The catalogue numbers may suggest otherwise, but this disc gathers the four earliest known symphonies by the young Mozart, along...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

IVES Symphonies 3 & 4 (Tilson Thomas)

‘Gloriously gut-punching’ was a San Francisco critic’s verdict on the live performance of Ives’s Fourth Symphony used for this disc....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2020

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