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PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto. Danses polonaises

Dang Thai Son nearly shot to fame in 1980 by winning the 10th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the first...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Jansons)

I barely recognise the symphony I know and love as being wild and wonderful, elemental, fantastical, startling, from this beautifully...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Roth)

On the reverse of the accompanying booklet (of which more anon) much is made of the Gürzenich Orchestra’s association with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018

British Violin Concertos

All three composers were (or are) career academics, but it’s notable how Paul Patterson’s concerto of 2013 wants most to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018

GREENWOOD Water MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik

ABC’s press release puts it neatly on the line: ‘The Australian Chamber Orchestra and ABC Classics present the first Australian-produced...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018

PENDERECKI Symphony No 2 DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7

Don’t approach Krzysztof Penderecki’s Christmas Symphony expecting sleigh bells and festive frolics. It’s a dark, sombre work, more ‘Four Horsemen...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2. STRAUSS Der Bürger als Edelmann

The recordings on this two-CD set originate from a concert at the Salzburg Festival celebrating Riccardo Muti’s 75th birthday. Both...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2018

ELGAR; BRUCH Violin Concertos

Sir Neville Marriner, who was originally to have conducted this recording, had a connection to Elgar’s Violin Concerto, as he...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Argerich)

Seiji Ozawa is 82 and Martha Argerich is 76, yet they go at Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto like a pair...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

BARTÓK Piano Concerto No 3. Concerto for Orchestra

Late, late, Bartók – the pair of masterpieces that could and would have turned his fortunes around during his final...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

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