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MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto. Octet

Born in Hilversum of Russian-Jewish heritage, Liza Ferschtman is not a predictable player. Insisting that she would not record the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Jansons)

With a Mahler tradition stretching back to the days of Rafael Kubelík, it was probably inevitable that this great orchestra...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017

LISZT A Faust Symphony

Writing of Martin Haselböck’s Liszt recordings in a previous Gramophone context I remarked how ‘the period-instrument Vienna Academy Orchestra…takes us...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017

HOLT a table of noises

These three scores by Simon Holt, composed between 2005 and 2008, are all evocations of the fantastical and the visionary....

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2017

Haydn 2032 – No 3, Solo e pensoso; No 4, Il distratto

Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico once again come up trumps in their seemingly haphazard selection of symphonies from during...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2017

ELGAR Symphony No 2. Carissima. Mina. Chanson de matin

Back in May 2015 I reviewed Petrenko’s interpretation of Elgar’s First Symphony and Cockaigne, remarking on the rhythmical dynamism of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2017

ELGAR Symphony No 1. Introduction and Allegro

With each new disc that arrives it becomes clearer and clearer that Edward Gardner is evolving into something really special....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9

‘One that loved not wisely but too well.’ Othello’s self-assessment could apply to Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s account of Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017

CZERNY The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol 71

Patience can be a virtue. When I reviewed Rosemary Tuck’s version of Czerny’s A minor Piano Concerto, Op 214, last...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

CHOPIN Works for Piano and Orchestrra

Ignoring the booklet’s avowal that the works featured on this album are ‘generally something of a blind-spot for music lovers...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017

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