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PÄRT Tabula Rasa. Spiegel im Spiegel (Järvi)

Immutable, austere, impassable – the strength of Arvo Pärt’s music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW18

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Manze)

Andrew Manze completes his Mendelssohn cycle with the sprawling but oddly lovable cantata-symphony Lobgesang. This may be the triumph of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018

LISZT Piano Concertos (Beatrice Berrut)

This interesting new recording of Liszt concertante works with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under Julien Masmondet is the orchestral...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW18

LACHNER Symphony No 3. Festouvertüre (Schmalfuss)

Franz Lachner (1803 90) is probably best remembered for his important position in the musical life of Munich, where he...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

DH JOHNSON Orchestral Music Vol 2

David Hackbridge Johnson’s vigorously dark Tenth Symphony (2013) is in a single, imaginatively scored movement running for some 33 minutes....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18

HOWARD; KERNIS; TOVEY Violin Concertos (Ehnes)

There’s some entertaining, dazzling, smile-inducing, toe-tapping music here but I can’t give you a cast-iron promise that there’s much more....

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 88, 92 & 94 (Bernstein)

Bernstein the conductor may be best remembered for his championing of Mahler and the American composers of his own time...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018

FUCHS Piano Concerto, ‘Spiritualist’

The song-cycle Poems of Life (2017) is the heart of this well-played, sumptuously scored programme. Setting 12 poems by Judith...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18

DUSSEK Piano Concertos (Howard Shelley)

Howard Shelley’s new recording with the Ulster Orchestra of three of Jan Ladislav Dussek’s concertos is a sequel to their...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW18

BERNSTEIN Symphony No 2, 'The Age of Anxiety' (Rattle)

A few words of introduction from the man himself (Bernstein in conversation with Humphrey Burton) preface this performance of perhaps...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW18

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