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FALLA El Amor brujo. Fanfare pour une fête. El sombrero de tres picos

‘It must be very simple in expression, as if Mozart were playing in Spain’, Enrique Mazzola tells his players during...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 6 & 7. Othello

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is one of the busiest conductors on the international classical music circuit. Criss-crossing between Montreal and Rotterdam, Philadelphia...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017

DUTILLEUX Symphopny No 2. Timbres, espace, mouvement

Dutilleux’s Second Symphony (1957 59) has not quite achieved standard-repertoire status despite a fair number of commercial recordings. Its distinctive...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 WAGNER Parsifal: Good Friday Music

Since Furtwängler and the Vienna Philharmonic took the Romantic Symphony on a tour of Germany in the autumn of 1951,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto No 1

This latest issue on the Royal Concertgebouw’s own label is a celebration of its honorary conductor, Bernard Haitink. As a...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

BRAHMS Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Mark Elder sets the scene with great potency in the D minor First Concerto, conjuring a whole range of emotions,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017

Homage à Boulez

There were those who used the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s death in 2016 to reiterate the same-old-same-old narrative about the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2017

BLACKFORD Better Angels

Having made his reputation in film and television, Richard Blackford (b1954) later enjoyed success with several major choral works. Instrumental...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10

A highly original concept, the subtext: music and dictatorship. As Michael Sanderling himself implies in a persuasive preface to the...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3. Fidelio Overture

Discreetly attentive to detail yet exalted in expression, a Festival Hall Pastoral from this team last January raised expectations that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

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