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WALTON Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Karabits)

If memory serves, Martyn Brabbins was the last to pair both these masterworks on a single disc (with the BBC Scottish SO...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017

WALTON Viola Concerto BRUCH Kol Nidrei

When it comes to Walton’s Viola Concerto, surely the finest and most original of his string concertos, perhaps Markus Poschner’s Bamberg opening...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty

If you ever doubted that, beneath his steely gaze, Vladimir Jurowski has a keen sense of humour, skip immediately to...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concertos. Piano Sonatas

What a sensible idea to programme both of Shostakovich’s concertos with the two piano sonatas, with the early First Sonata getting...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017

SCRIABIN Symphony No 2. Piano Concerto

While Scriabin’s Second Symphony is arguably the most conventional of his five from a melodic and harmonic standpoint, it’s not a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

Soave e virtuoso

One would be hard-pressed to find a flautist whose music-making is as broad as Alexis Kossenko’s. Active on both modern...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

SAINT-SAËNS Organ Symphony. Carnival of the Animals

Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and The Carnival of the Animals are rarely paired together on disc. Hugely different in scale, they...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé. Une barque sur l'océan

It’s unfortunate, perhaps, that Gustavo Gimeno’s new Pentatone recording of Daphnis et Chloé should appear so soon after François-Xavier Roth’s...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017

WEINBERG Symphony No 5 PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5

Why re-record Weinberg’s Fifth? Well, it is certainly a standout piece in his output of 26 symphonies, constantly astonishing by its...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2017

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No 2. Violin Sonatas

At the heart of this curiously planned miscellany is Prokofiev’s G minor Violin Concerto, one of the last scores he completed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2017

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