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FINZI Cello Concerto (Paul Watkins)

Recordings of Gerald Finzi’s imposing Cello Concerto (premiered at the Cheltenham Festival under John Barbirolli in 1955, the last full...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018

BRUCKNER String Quintet. Overture (Schaller)

The scale and richness of Bruckner’s String Quintet have encouraged a number of arrangements for string orchestra over the years,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2018

BRONSART; URSPRUCH Piano Concertos

The astounding thing about Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series is that, at Vol 77, it’s still going strong and that...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018

BRAHMS Symphonies and Serenades (Venzago)

Mario Venzago’s recordings of Bruckner symphonies with the Tapiola Sinfonietta and other chamber orchestras raised eyebrows and furrowed brows. I...

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

BRAHMS Symphony No 3 (Dausgaard)

More muscular, immediate Brahms here from Thomas Dausgaard’s Meiningen-sized Swedish Chamber Orchestra but, where the previous two instalments (the first...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

BIZET Symphony; DEBUSSY Fantaisie (Villaume)

Opinions differ about Debussy’s Fantaisie, his only work for piano and orchestra, completed in 1890. Self-critical as always, Debussy himself...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

BERNSTEIN 'Broadway to Hollywood'

For its Bernstein centenary tribute, Somm’s historical label Ariadne has released a series of previously unavailable NDR broadcasts from Hanover...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos (Marcin Świątkiewicz)

Świątkiewicz was the harpsichordist who in 2015 shone an attractively characterful and joyous light on the little-known keyboard concertos of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW18

Calidore String Quartet: Resilience

The cover of this new release from the Calidore Quartet has the four players standing in sunglasses in a Manhattan...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

Poetical Humors

At first sight, the young accordionist Vincent Lhermet and veteran viola da gamba player Marianne Muller seem the oddest of...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2018

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