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GORDON Mythologies and Mad Songs

Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024

FAURÉ; SCHOENBERG Pelléas et Mélisande

Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

COATES Orchestral Works Vol 4 (Wilson)

Eric Coates is a composer to whom one returns in the sure knowledge that the spirits will be lifted, the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Roth)

What is at stake in Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, writes Volker Hagedorn in an excellent booklet essay, is nothing less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

BRUCKER Symphony No 3 (1877. Poschner)

The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition includes three full versions of the composer’s Third Symphony, all of which have now...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 DEAN Piano Concerto (Jonathan Biss)

In 2015 Jonathan Biss asked five stylistically diverse composers to write concertos that respectively responded to each of Beethoven’s five....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

ALBERGA Orchestral Works

There are not many successful works for string quartet and orchestra – the concertos by Martinů and Benjamin Lees; best...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

AHO Guitar Concerto. Quintet for Horn. String Quartet (Storgårds)

Kalevi Aho has over 40 concertos to his credit, for every standard orchestral instrument except piccolo, bass trombone, celesta and...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Mythos - Schubert & Loewe (Konstantin Krimmel)

The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel (b1993) has been quietly collecting excellent reviews in these pages ever since the release...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024

CHAKER Radio Afloat. Vigil

Drawing from numerous genres but free from many of their constrictions, the alt-classical-world-music-jazz pieces coming out of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2024

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