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BLOCH Schelomo DVOŘÁK Klid. Cello Concerto

While not wishing to mislead with excessive praise, Marc Coppey’s 2016 account of the Dvořák Concerto more reminded me of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017

COPLAND Symphony No 3. 3 Latin American Sketches

Copland described his Third Symphony (1946) as an ‘end-of-war piece – intended to reflect the euphoric spirit of the country...

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

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Schaller)

Recent advances in understanding of Bruckner’s work on the unfinished finale of his Ninth Symphony, including the recognition that the...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 (Thielemann)

What a difference six days makes. That’s the amount of time between Thielemann’s performance of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on this...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1. 3 Pieces for Orchestra

Should a composer’s final thoughts be considered definitive? It’s a question that often arises in connection with the works of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017

BRAHMS Symphony No 2 SEGERSTAM Symphony No 289

Conductor-composers tackling Brahms symphonies on disc aren’t exactly thin on the ground: think of Bernstein, Furtwängler, Gielen, Klemperer, Kubelík, Walter...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 JOST Fanfare

Set in the grounds of a grand Schloss on the plains of Lower Austria, the Grafenegg Festival does well by...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2017

BEASER Guitar Concerto

The American composer Robert Beaser has the happy knack of writing orchestrally yet idiomatically for solo classical guitar. Just listen...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017

ANTHEIL A Jazz Symphony. Piano Concerto No 1

Antheil sometimes plagiarises so unashamedly that listening to his music with real enjoyment demands a suspension of disbelief. His First...

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

The Fraternity - The Requiem Mass sung in plainchant

Decca has the Cistercian monks of Heiligenkreuz and the nuns of Notre-Dame-de-L’Annonciation, ClassicFM has the Ampleforth monks, Deutsche Grammophon the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2017

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