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Bracing Change

The title is deliberately ambiguous. ‘Bracing Change’ can mean both ‘a refreshing change’ and the notion of nurturing and supporting...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017

CZERNOWIN Wintersongs

In Chaya Czernowin’s music the natural world is frequently present and ever enigmatic. Nature here is not domesticated and anthropomorphised;...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2017

CARBONELLI Sonate da Camera Nos 1-6

Of the crop of Italian violinist-composers who successfully made London their home in the early 18th century, Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017

BRITTEN; PURCELL Chaconnes and Fantasias

My first port of call for comparisons in the Britten was the Belcea Quartet, initially in the first movement of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017

Triptych

Surely the best music here is by Clara Schumann, the Andante slow movement of her G minor Trio suggesting Brahmsian...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017

Bach Stories

‘A new way of thinking about classical music and improvisation’ and ‘historical music practice in a contemporary form’ is the...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017

VILLA-LOBOS Symphonies Nos 8, 9 & 11

These symphonies, composed between 1950 and 1955, are fascinatingly paradoxical. All three are lavishly orchestrated and teem with activity, yet...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto (Esther Yoo)

I happened to miss Esther Yoo’s DG debut disc of Sibelius and Glazunov concertos. On the basis of this all-Tchaikovsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 1 (Gimeno)

It’s more than 10 years since Pentatone issued a recording of Shostakovich’s First Symphony, a distinguished effort from Vladimir Jurowski...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 1 & 7

Tugan Sokhiev has impressed me in the past – his Tchaikovsky Fourth with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2017

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