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WEIGL Symphony No 1. Pictures and Tales (Bruns)

Born in 1881, Karl Weigl received lessons from Zemlinsky as a teenager, studied alongside Webern at the University of Vienna,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2019

The Film Music of Gerard Schurmann

Three cheers to Chandos and their house team of conductor Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic for flying the flag...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2019

RICHTER The Four Seasons Recomposed

Max Richter’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons may not have been met with unanimous critical approval when its premiere...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

SAINT-SAËNS; WIDOR Organ Symphonies (Jacobson)

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony has long been a showcase both for engineering prowess and for the capabilities of one’s hi-fi kit....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019

MOZART; PHIBBS Clarinet Concertos (van de Wiel)

Mark van de Wiel is principal clarinettist of the Philharmonia but here he steps out of his usual seat to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019

MARX Romantic Piano Concerto. Castelli Romani (David Lively)

Joseph Marx is little more than a footnote today, though Naxos is trying to put that right, bringing back to...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Blomstedt)

School of Barbirolli. That was my first thought as the faltering pulse of the opening bars ushered in the warm...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019

KABALEVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Ang)

Overshadowed by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and other luminaries of 20th-century Russian music, Dmitry Kabalevsky nevertheless composed at least one work in...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2019

HOLBROOKE Symphony No 3 (Griffiths)

Apparently ‘the cockney Wagner’ Josef Holbrooke was neither a cockney (born in Croydon, settled in Haringey) nor a Wagnerian (more...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

GOODYEAR Callaloo. PIano Sonata GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

The curtain rips apart with brash glissandos, followed by syncopated bitonality that cries out ‘Busoni in Trinidad!’, only to morph...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019

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