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BLACKFORD Niobe (Gernon)

I’d trust the violinist who wedded works by Roy Harris and John Adams on one the most absorbing concerto discs...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

TURNAGE Shadow Walker BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

In Turnage’s double concerto Shadow Walker, Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are often entwined in canons or reflective gestures but...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

BENNETT Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Wilson)

This is the second volume of John Wilson’s ‘celebration’ (for that’s what this series surely is) of Richard Rodney Bennett’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Zander)

Much as I admire Benjamin Zander’s gifts as a musical proselytiser and polemicist, I approached the two discs’ worth of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

BEETHOVEN; SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies No 5 (Sanderling)

Michael Sanderling leads a spick and span Beethoven Fifth. The long streams of quavers in the first movement line up...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018

JS BACH Keyboard Concertos Nos 1,2,4 & 5 (Bonizzoni)

There is a pleasing quality to Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos, which achieves the difficult task of...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2018

AHO Piano Concerto. Timpani Concerto

Kalevi Aho’s stated aim in his 2016 Timpani Concerto was, as in his much-loved Percussion Concerto (2011), to have the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

BIZET The Pearl Fishers (Bloch)

Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers was much maligned for years. Writing in Le Figaro after its 1863 premiere, Benjamin Jouvin dismissed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2018

VIVALDI Concerti for strings. Concerti for viola d'amore

Happily for Vivaldi lovers, the long-stalled Naïve Edition is now back on track, complete with those chic cover portraits mingling...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2018

BYRD One Byrde in Hande

A joyous upwards flourish opens Richard Egarr’s Byrd recital, added by him to the beginning of a 50-second Prelude for...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018

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