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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 12 (Meister)

There is only the most tenuous connection between the two main works on this disc: Russia pre- and post-Revolution. Both...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 (Nelsons)

We’ve come to expect a clear-sighted brilliance and technical excellence from this series. It’s become something of a benchmark in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2019

RANDS Chains Like the Sea

Opening this orchestral portrait of the American-British composer Bernard Rands is a Latino dance with a difference. There is no...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos Nos 1, 3 & 4 (Kholodenko)

Compared alongside the fast and faceless performances in Vol 1 of the Kholodenko/Harth-Bedoya/Fort Worth Prokofiev concerto cycle (3/16), Vol 2...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019

PRICE Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

In addition to the harvest of death, disenfranchisement, pain and suffering inflicted by societies locked into institutionalised racism, there is...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019

MOZART Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 (Manze)

Mozart’s last two symphonies were composed virtually simultaneously in 1788 and make a common coupling on disc. Few recordings, though,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Roth)

Too often ‘Spring marches in’ to Mahler’s Third with a scowl and the weight of the world already on his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019

KARŁOWICZ Symphony in E Minor, Op. 7 'Odrodzenie'

‘Romantic-nationalist’ is the description usually applied to Mieczysław Karłowicz's only symphony; but in fact the ‘Rebirth’ of its title relates...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019

IBERT; MASSENET; SAUGUET French Music for Ballet (Järvi)

Browsing in a second-hand shop a dozen or so years ago, I found an ancient Chant du Monde LP of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019

HAYDN; VIVALDI Cello Concertos (Christoph Croisé)

This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire:...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019

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