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WIDOR Symphony No 1. Violin Concerto. La Nuit de Walpurgis

Widor’s ubiquitous Toccata from Symphony No 5, in spite of being his defining work, is by no means representative of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015

VIVALDI La Stravaganza

The exquisite chaconne from the final concerto of Vivaldi’s La stravaganza may be worth the entry price alone. But this...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5. Romeo and Juliet Overture

Captured live at Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony serve up a Tchaikovsky pairing of...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015

STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica

It’s taken nearly a decade for Pentatone to release a follow-up to its first Strauss disc with Marek Janowski, a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

SIBELIUS Kuolema. King Christian

This is the first in a new series of six CDs from Naxos devoted to lesser-known Sibelius works and featuring...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015

SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 4

Svetlanov, Muti and Ashkenazy have all, perforce, included the First Symphony in their complete Scriabin symphony surveys, but otherwise it...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9

‘Lean of tone and impetuous’ is how Richard Wigmore described Antonello Manacorda’s coupling of Schubert’s Third and Eighth symphonies with...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015

SCHUBERT Complete Symphonies. Masses Nos 5 & 6

Between 2003 and 2006, the Berlin Philharmonic devoted two concerts each season to what was in effect a Harnoncourt Schubert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015

SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto

‘Spiritual and not sentimental, intellectual and not emotional’ were Schoenberg’s performance values, according to the conductor Hermann Scherchen, and by...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015

SCHMIERER Zodiaci Musici, Orchestral Suites

Johann Abraham Schmierer (literally ‘scribbler’) was discharged from Augsburg cathedral choir in 1680, but it was in the same city...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015

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