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SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto. Symphony No 2

The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017

SCHULHOFF Forbidden Music

Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

REGER Violin Concerto

This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

PINTSCHER Bereshit. Uriel. Songs from Solomon's Garden

I’d read chatter on the internet talking up Matthias Pintscher’s 2012 Bereshit, his 30-minute composition for large ensemble, as a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake

Pictures at an exhibition grace the cover of this Pictures at an Exhibition, the result of a collaboration between Gustavo...

Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 02/2017

MAHLER Symphony No 2 (Casadesus)

In November 2016 Mahler’s manuscript score of the Resurrection sold for the highest sum ever paid for such a document....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017

GURETZKY Cello Concertos

The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen is no joking matter. Named after the musicians that gave London’s first public concerts...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017

Sol Gabetta: Live

Sol Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto (1930 55), which over a 25 year period grew from a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9. The Noon Witch

With this live recording of the Ninth, Marcus Bosch is close to concluding his Dvořák cycle for Coviello. As in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017

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