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BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances SCHUBERT Rondo

This interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto could be considered ‘old school’ by today’s standards. Indeed, if you’ve heard Manze’s sinewy account...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017

RAMEAU Pygmalion. Les fêtes de Polymnie – Suite

According to the Mercure de France, Rameau composed Pygmalion (1748) in less than eight days, responding rapidly to an urgent commission...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017

Mari Samuelsen: Nordic Noir

Mari Samuelsen is joined by her cellist brother Håkon and the Trondheim Soloists for an album which hangs off the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

La flûte norvégienne

This is as much a celebration of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra’s principal flute chair as it is a snapshot of...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017

Vladimir Jurowski: 10 Years

Unlike many of his colleagues, Vladimir Jurowski has always been a records man. The Russian-born conductor freely admits to Andrew...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2017

WEINER Serenade. Five Divertimentos

I demand to know what Neeme Järvi has for breakfast! At 80 years old, with nearly 500 recordings under his belt, he...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 7. Concerto for Two Pianos

Here’s the final instalment in the Vaughan Williams symphony cycle launched so propitiously all those years ago by Richard Hickox...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 2, ‘A London Symphony’

Martyn Brabbins masterminds a superbly involving account of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its first published edition from 1920. Clocking...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra MAHLER Totenfeier

Those familiar with Vladimir Jurowski’s Strauss from the concert hall will have some idea of what to expect from his...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2017

PROKOFIEV Peter and The Wolf RAWSTHORNE Practical Cats

>Presenter, actor and singer Alexander Armstrong is probably best known to children as the voice of CBBC’s Danger Mouse, and he...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017

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