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RESPIGHI Roman Trilogy (Falletta)

It’s now some 10 years since JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic gave us their first Respighi disc, a programme...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

REGER Piano Concerto (Becker)

Markus Becker’s love affair with Reger’s piano oeuvre first manifested itself on CD with the complete solo piano music, initially...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019

NEPOMUCENO Symphony in G minor

Although virtually unknown outside his native land, Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920) is one of the luminaries of Brazilian music. He composed...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

MYSLIVEČEK Keyboard Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Clare Hammond)

Josef Mysliveček (1737 81) was 26 years old when he left his native Prague for Italy, where he studied with...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 10 (Storgårds)

Erwin Stein’s arrangement of the Fourth set the precedent for attempts to compress and deconstruct Mahler that have more recently...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019

Jaakko Luoma: Bassoon Concertos

Pity the poor bassoon, imprisoned in the depths of the woodwind section, usually let out only for brief comedy turns,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

HAYDN Seven Last Words of Christ of the Cross (Minasi)

One of Haydn’s oddest commissions came from a church in Cádiz for a sequence of orchestral ‘sonatas’ depicting each of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019

GIORNOVICH London Concertos (Čičić)

Giovanni Giornovich (1747-1804) was perhaps born at sea, definitely baptised in Palermo, probably held a French passport and certainly appeared...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2019

ELGAR Enigma Variations. In the South (Petrenko)

Vasily Petrenko directs an admirably trim, affectionate and cannily paced Enigma, free of fussy intervention and marked by superb orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2019

DVOŘÁK; TCHAIKOVSKY Serenades for Strings (Piovano)

It’s difficult to imagine an album coupling these two works not being an enjoyable listen. And so it proves with...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019

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