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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

ELGAR Enigma Variations HOLST The Planets (Litton)

Edward Gardner and Vasily Petrenko have been taking their Norwegian orchestras through plenty of Elgar in concert while recording the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019

ELGAR The Spanish Lady. Organ Sonata (Yates)

It was in the late summer of 1932 that Elgar began jotting down ideas for The Spanish Lady, a ‘Grand...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019

DEBUSSY Nocturnes etc (Shui)

The Singapore Symphony’s Debussy first impressed me with an excellent La mer under Lan Shui in an imaginatively programmed 2007...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

CHÁVEZ Symphony No 2 COPLAND Symphony No 3 (Prieto)

These performances were recorded live at the opening concerts of The Orchestra of the Americas’ 2018 European tour. Overall, the...

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

BRAUNFELS Orchestral Works Vol 4

According to Michael Haas’s invaluable Forbidden Music (Yale UP: 2013), Walter Braunfels chose mental rather than physical emigration after the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019

BRAHMS Complete Symphonies (Zehetmair)

Brahms visited Switzerland frequently. In August 1856 he met the music publisher Jakob Melchior Rieter-Biedermann on the first of 14...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

ADAMS Become Desert

Edgard Varèse, Peter Sculthorpe, Michael Finnissy, Steve Reich – several composers have written music that has drawn inspiration from the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019

BACH FAMILY Cantatas (Meunier)

Bach’s pair of first cousins once-removed, Johann Christoph and Michael, have long been acknowledged as key influences in Johann Sebastian’s...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2019

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