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Review of STEIBELT Piano Concertos Nos 3, 5 & 7

STEIBELT Piano Concertos Nos 3, 5 & 7

This is the second volume of Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series, one that was launched with Howard Shelley leading the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016

Review of SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

I doubt Hannu Lintu’s Sibelius would sound the way it does here had the conductor not been so deeply involved...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016

Review of SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concertos

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concertos

I like the idea of a CD where top billing passes from one star soloist to another. And I like...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016

Gramophone Classical Music Awards Winner
Review of RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances

The variably transliterated Dmitri Kitaenko, who recorded The Bells for Chandos in the 1990s (2/92), has recently completed a more...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016

Review of PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

PROKOFIEV Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

It’s the Shostakovich effect all over again. You might feel that what we need now are good modern recordings of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:

Gramophone Classical Music Awards Winner
Review of PETTERSSON Symphony No 13

PETTERSSON Symphony No 13

The Thirteenth Symphony (1976) is the largest of Pettersson’s later symphonies, second only in size to No 9, completed just...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016

Review of MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream

To Mendelssohn Thomas Dausgaard brings the qualities that have distinguished his cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, notably a spring...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 1. Blumine

MAHLER Symphony No 1. Blumine

The competition is formidable – that’s why it was sensible to find room for Blumine. Whether you choose to experience...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016

Review of LISZT; SCHUBERT The Sound of Weimar

LISZT; SCHUBERT The Sound of Weimar

With the notable exceptions of Immerseel/Anima Eterna, Roth/Les Siècles and Rohrer/Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the original-instrument crowd has largely avoided...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016

Review of LARSSON Symphony No 2. Variations

LARSSON Symphony No 2. Variations

If Larsson’s First Symphony (A/14) is something of a mash-up of different styles and influences, then its successor from 1936-37...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016

 

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