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MOZART Piano Concertos (Tryon)

It’s good to be reminded just how much fun Mozart’s works involving multiple pianos are. The concertos for two and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018

MOZART; MYSLIVEČEK Flute Concertos (de la Vega)

For all his protestations about how he detested the flute, Mozart nevertheless gave flautists two of the founding works of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018

Polish Music (Kaspszyk)

It is over 10 years since I first encountered Emil Mynarski’s music, with his marvellous Second Violin Concerto played by...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

F & F MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream (excs)

‘Humans like this music. It entertains them’, Iván Fischer writes, with quizzical humour, in a booklet note for his recording...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018

MARTINŮ Double Concertos for Violin and Piano

Here we have Martinů’s piano and violin double concertos performed by two pairs of sisters, which is less gimmicky than...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Gatti)

After his disappointingly urbane account of the Resurrection Symphony, the twilit, childlike world of the Fourth would, on paper, seem...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018

LINDBERG Steppenwolf

When not playing the trombone (as scintillatingly as anyone else on the planet) or championing Pettersson’s symphonies from the podium,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018

Haydn 2032 – No 6, Lamentatione

Giovanni Antonini’s thematically grouped survey of Haydn’s symphonies continues with a pair of works from his Sturm und Drang period...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018

ELGAR Symphony No 2. Serenade (Gardner)

The opening movement of Elgar’s Second Symphony has brought great diversity of approach over the decades. How to interpret that...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018

EGGERT Muzak. Number Nine VII: Masse

Little has been heard in the UK by Moritz Eggert (b1965) during those two decades since he came to prominence,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2018

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