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DOVE A Brief History of Creation. Gaia Theory

Master of musical pragmatism, Jonathan Dove is also capable of thinking on a large scale – hence his settings of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT Symphony No 5 BRAHMS Serenade No 2 (Gardiner)

With an economy of means that would serve him well in years to come, the 26-year-old Brahms wrote a single,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

BERG Violin Concerto. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 (Nelsons)

Following a two-year interregnum, the tenure of Andris Nelsons as the 21st Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra was officially inaugurated...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4 (Lu)

In the world of the rebooted Leeds Piano Competition the prize means management and a recording contract. And while many...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Bernardini)

Anyone miffed that Zefiro’s recent Bach Orchestral Suites (4/17) didn’t contain the famous B minor work for flute and strings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

Bailar Cantado; Musica Nova (Hespèron XXI)

Both these releases from Hespèrion XXI are revisitings of repertoire they have explored before, but in neither is there the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018

Nadine Sierra: There's A Place For Us

Why does everything nowadays have to be marketed with an angle, a message? There are no more recital discs, just...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

Requiem: The Pity of War

‘How’, Ian Bostridge asks in a booklet note for ‘Requiem: The Pity of War’, ‘might one reflect the experience and...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018

The Liberation of the Gothic

Given the seeming reluctance of continental ensembles to tackle early Tudor polyphony, one must applaud Graindelavoix for taking on a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018

Himmelsmusik

L’Arpeggiata are the ensemble with the curl in the middle of their forehead: when they are good they are very,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018

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