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Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems

Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Herreweghe)

These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

SCHMIDT Symphonies Nos 1-4 (Berman)

Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 (Noseda)

Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024

MUSTONEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3 (Mustonen)

It is a curious feature of Olli Mustonen the composer that, rather like Stravinsky, he has written relatively little for...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

MOZART Symphonies Nos 29 & 40 (Emelyanychev)

This account of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 follows Il Pomo d’Oro’s recording of No 41, the Jupiter (4/23); no doubt...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024

'Mozart 1791'

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is most commonly coupled on recordings with the Clarinet Quintet or with a complementary concerto by another...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 7 & 10 (Cummings)

The latest stop on Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated traversal of Mozart’s complete output for keyboard...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (Emelyanychev)

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Vänskä)

The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2024

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