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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

MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3

Concerto repertoire appears for the first time in DG’s series of live archival recordings with pianist Gregory Sokolov. In Mozart’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017

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

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