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BRAHMS Double Concerto. Symphony No 4

Both of these performances were recorded live during Pinchas Zukerman’s final season as music director of the Orchestra du Centre...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2016

Bel canto amore mio

Various bizarre happenings surround this creditable new release: a contemporary review of unparalleled savagery from a French online source, an...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016

Stokowski Transcriptions

Bach purists should look away now. Leopold Stokowski’s 1927 orchestration of the D minor Toccata and Fugue calls for double...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

MOSZKOWSKI Piano Concerto SCHULZ-EVLER Russian Rhapsody

Listening to the extended orchestral opening that launches this disc, darkness shot through with piercing piccolo, you might be hard-pressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2016

GÁL Piano Concerto MOZART Piano Concerto No 22

If there is a happier 20th-century piano concerto than Hans Gál’s of 1948, I don’t know what it is. Playing...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2016

ELGAR Piano Quintet. Sea Pictures

It’s a brave soul who decides to reorchestrate Sea Pictures, one of Elgar’s most miraculously scored, ineffably touching and entrancingly...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2016

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 8 SUK Serenade

Mariss Jansons’s first recording of Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony (made with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1992 for EMI) conveyed an admirable...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2016

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 MOZART Symphony No 34

With the exception of the Firebird Suite, which he never recorded commercially, these live performances feature works central to Böhm’s...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2016

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. MOZART Quintet. SCHUMANN Phantasie

It may seem brave (or perhaps foolhardy) for a relatively new ensemble and a youngish soloist/director – Sebastian Bohren (b1987)...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2016

Martha Argerich: Live from Lugano 2015; Piano Duos and Concert

‘As you can see, Martha and I are not alone,’ announces Daniel Barenboim to a packed Teatro Colón as three...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

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