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DEBUSSY La Mer. Images. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which has been associated most recently on disc with its series of Rachmaninov symphonies coupled with...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014

DALLAPICCOLA Works for Orchestra

As Christoph Schlüren points out in his informative booklet-note, orchestral music occupies a limited place within Dallapiccola’s output – making...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

CLEMENTI Piano Concerto No 3. Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

The single extant piano concerto of Clementi is this C major Concerto, and it survives only in a copy in...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

Ivor Bolton makes a convincingly grand case for Bruckner’s First as a work of innovative maturity, with no less experience...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a more or less exemplary account of Beethoven’s Second Symphony. The outer movements are swift-moving...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014

DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp TAKEMITSU And then I knew 'twas Wind

Debussy’s extraordinary work used to be found in collections of chamber music by his contemporaries and immediate successors. Ravel, Guy...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014

Taracea: Seldom Sene

The subtitle suggests a spanning of ‘five centuries’; I make it six, perhaps even seven. Be that as it may,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014

SCHNITTKE; WEINBERG; KURTAG; PENDERECKI String Trios

Here is a worthwhile survey of string trios that are more usually heard as part of composer compilations. The Ensemble...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014

USTVOLSKAYA Sonata. Trio. Duet

The belated recognition of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) as a figure of importance tailed off once the limited extent of her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014

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