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The English Concert

This disc is designed as a concerto showcase for four of The English Concert’s regular members, and does a very...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

A ZIMMERMANN Symphonies (Ehrhardt)

Silesian-born Anton Zimmermann (1741 81) spent much of his short life as director of the court orchestra in Pressburg (now...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018

WEINBERG Symphony No 13. Concertino

The premiere recording of the Thirteenth Symphony is a major event for Weinbergians. After this there are only three symphonies...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker (Dudamel)

’Tis the season to roast your Nutcrackers by the fire. A year on from my mammoth survey of available recordings...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY; SCRIABIN Piano Concertos (Xiayin Wang)

Kirill Gerstein was the first to record the Tchaikovsky B flat minor using a new critical edition of the score...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018

STRAVINSKY Petrushka. Jeu de Cartes (Gergiev)

Bold local colours are pretty much a given for Petrushka with this orchestra and this conductor in this location. But...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018

STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben. Burleske (Albrecht)

It’s been a decade since Marc Albrecht last released a disc of Strauss orchestral music on Pentatone. That was an...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 (Korstick)

There is enough explosive playing on this disc to trigger a red-level threat warning. Is it riveting? Intermittently, yes. Does...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 15 & 16 (Bavouzet)

The third volume of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s survey of the piano concertos completes his recordings of the six concertos composed for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 6 (Currentzis)

Anyone who thrilled (as I did) to Teodor Currentzis’s Tchaikovsky Pathétique will find distinct parallels here. The impulse, the imperative,...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018

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