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MAHLER Symphony No 6

In December 2014 Daniel Harding stepped in to conduct this very work with the Berlin Philharmonic, a high-profile engagement in...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

MAHLER Symphony No 1

Because Leonard Bernstein made his only studio recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in London, the first American ensemble to set...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2015

KUULA South Ostrobothnian Suits Nos 1 & 2

Leevi Madetoja described his friend and associate Toivo Kuula as ‘a man who knows what he wants and is confident...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

KRAGGERUD Equinox

There’s a lot going on here. Henning Kraggerud’s four concertos (‘Afternoon’, ‘Evening’, ‘Night’ and ‘Morning’) of six movements are reflections...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2015

KLUGHARDT Symphony No 4

I had never come across August Klughardt (1847-1902). There is a statue of him in Dessau, where he spent most...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

HADLEY Tone Poems and Overtures

Boston-born Henry Kimball Hadley (1871-1937), sometimes known simply as Henry Hadley, is a figure of some importance in American musical...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

FOSS Complete Symphonies

‘Foss came to neo-classicism late,’ the booklet-notes accompanying this first survey of all four Lukas Foss symphonies tell us, to...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015

FITZENHAGEN Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848 90), remembered for his bold, not to say high-handed revision of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015

JANÁČEK Sinfonietta DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9

On grounds of sound alone, Anima Eterna’s new all-Czech coupling is something of a revelation. Jos van Immerseel has seen...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2015

DUTILLEUX Métaboles

I would imagine Ludovic Morlot and Karl-Heinz Steffens are thrilled – in a Gore Vidal ‘a little part of me...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015

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