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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony (Manze)

Goodness, how spoilt for choice we are becoming in this repertoire! The fourth instalment in Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams symphony...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2019

STRAUSS Horn Concerto (Robert Langbein)

Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle give us early and late Strauss in this beautifully programmed set, recorded during concerts...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 8 (Abbado)

How Schubert’s Fifth is played (and heard) in concert depends heavily on where it’s placed (Sibelius’s Seventh is another symphony...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2019

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 3, 5 & 8 (Gardner)

Edward Gardner and the orchestra of which he was formerly principal guest conductor move backwards through the 19th century, from...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Isle of the Dead (Gourlay)

British audiences may best remember Jamaican-born Andrew Gourlay as assistant to Mark Elder at the Hallé or for his conducting...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2019

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4

You would surely expect an Italian to tap into the heat and ardour of Tchaikovsky’s fate-fuelled Fourth Symphony – but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

MENDELSSOHN Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra (Henry Raudales)

Mendelssohn never intended for his 12 string symphonies to be published. Composed from around 1821, when he was just on...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection’ (Vänskä)

Reviewing Vänskä’s recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (6/18) I once again raised the issue of subjectivity and objectivity in this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019

JÄRNEFELT Song of the Scarlet Flower

Mauritz Stiller is credited with discovering Greta Garbo but before he went to Hollywood he directed the first Swedish blockbuster,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 9, 65 & 67 (Antonini)

The seventh volume of Giovanni Antonini’s projected Haydn symphony cycle turns to works with theatrical connections. Poor old Symphony No...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019

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