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Bologna 1666

Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017

Azul

The Knights, an ensemble of orchestral dimensions but flexible enough to perform repertoire drawing on a wide range of contemporary...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2017

WHITLEY I Am I Say

If not an unknown quantity, Kate Whitley (b1989) is still little known on the wider UK music scene and this...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017

WAGNER Symphony in C

Wagner’s would-be Beethovenian Symphony in C major is tolerably well known. Though a student work, the composer retained a soft...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017

STRAUSS Don Juan. Ein Heldenleben

These two discs present two prolific but very different conductors with orchestras they each took over at the start of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017

SHORE Mythic Gardens. Ruin & Memory

He may be best known as having written scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, and those...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

Imagine if you’d never heard a Rachmaninov concerto in your life. Listening to this new recording of Nos 2 and...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2. Variations on a Theme of Corelli

The London-trained Italian pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell has conspicuous musical (and even more conspicuous photogenic) talent, and for a young...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017

PETTERSSON Symphony No 14

Allan Pettersson never heard his Fourteenth Symphony (1977 78). Premiered 17 months after his death in June 1980, it has...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017

MOZART Posthorn Serenade. Serenade No 13 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik’'

The term ‘serenade’ evidently meant diffrerent things to Mozart at different times. The Posthorn is a Salzburg work, composed in...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2017

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