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TINOCO The Blue Voice of the Water

Anyone who has spent time on the Algarve knows how rich and varied its maritime life is. In expanding upon...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW18

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Quixote (Weigle)

Sebastian Weigle and his Frankfurt orchestra here reach the sixth volume of their survey of Strauss orchestral works. In doing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2018

RUBINSTEIN Piano Concerto No 4. Caprice Russe (Shelest)

A one-time concert staple, Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto virtually disappeared from the repertoire in the West by the mid-20th...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 SIBELIUS Symphony No 2

In an ideal world there should be no need for a special orchestra that selects musicians on the basis of...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018

MOZART Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 (Blomstedt)

Mozart’s late symphonic music is nowadays so much the province – almost the property – of the period-instrument brigade that...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto (Siranossian)

Chouchane Siranossian and Anima Eterna present not the familiar versions of these two evergreen masterpieces but instead go back to...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018

LINDBERG Violin Concerto No 2 (Zimmermann)

Magnus Lindberg wrote his Violin Concerto No 2 (2015) for Frank Peter Zimmermann. Whether or not the German’s thick-set tone...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

HOLST The Planets (Batt)

Why, you may rightly ask, has it taken fully 25 years for this set of Holst’s The Planets to see...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

HERSCH Violin Concerto. end stages (Kopatchinskaja)

Michael Hersch’s Violin Concerto (2015) immediately hurls us into a wrenching scene. Trumpet and horn yelp a distressed fanfare as...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

GIPPS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4

‘That’s the best piece of classical music you’ve played to me’, quipped my 10-year-old daughter on hearing Ruth Gipps’s Second...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018

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