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WEBER Clarinet Concerto (Ottensamer)

The title ‘Blue Hour’ is meant to convey that post-sunset glow before nightfall and might well conjure up a mood...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2019

Celebrating John Williams (LAPO/Dudamel)

This pair of CDs was recorded live earlier this year to celebrate the music of John Williams and the centenary...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2019

STRAUSS Violin Concerto (Tasmin Little)

The four concertante works that feature on this recording under the direction of the clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins include...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2019

CP STAMITZ Ten Symphonies

Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745-1801) was the scion of a Bohemian musical family that reached its peak in the mid- and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

GLIÈRE; SAINT-SAËNS; SCHUMANN Works for Horn and Orchestra

Markus Maskuniitty began his orchestral career as first horn in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Since then, he’s served as principal...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

SCHUBERT Early Symphonies and Stage Music

Pentatone returns to Schubert’s youthful symphonic output just a matter of months after its issue of the B’Rock Orchestra’s disc...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No 2. Symphony in F (Fischer)

Why do Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies get such a bad rap? Even Roger Nichols apologises more than is necessary for Urbs...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

RANDS Piano Conerto (Jonathan Biss)

It’s weeks since I reviewed the last disc of orchestral music by Bernard Rands. No, I hadn’t heard of him...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. The Isle of the Dead (Jurowski)

The Isle of the Dead might be regarded as the makeweight here but it has long been a Jurowski speciality...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 1 (van Keulen)

Having recorded Prokofiev’s complete works for violin and piano with Ronald Brautigam (Challenge Classics, 5/13), Isabelle van Keulen might have...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019

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