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MAHLER Symphony No 9

Michael Schønwandt’s own programme notes are candid and concise: an assignment taken at four days’ notice to replace an ailing...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2014

MACMILLAN From Ayrshire. Tuireadh. ...as others see us...

Despite its geographically Scottish title, the opening movement of From Ayrshire feels more akin to the pastoral Gloucestershire of Vaughan...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014

GREGSON Dream Song. Horn Concerto. Aztec Dances

Edward Gregson has a formidable standing as a brass band composer, and his links with that world are writ large...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

GOVES Just stuff people do

Although his House of Bedlam collective was behind the notable album Talking Microtonal Blues (1/14), this is the first disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

GODARD Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

With Vol 63 of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series we alight upon Benjamin Godard (1849 95), the French composer remembered...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Chopin’s two oft recorded piano concertos are here presented in the order of their composition (ie No 2 followed by...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014

BUSONI Violin Concerto STRAUSS Violin Concerto

Busoni’s Violin Concerto (1896 97), despite the success of the Second Sonata that shortly followed it, has never enjoyed much...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

The Percussion Universe of Axel Borup-Jørgensen

Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) will be a name unfamiliar to many, though this Danish composer left a substantial body of work...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

BIGHAM Culebra

Ned Bigham is a Scottish composer new to me, who eschews serialism and dissonant modernity, although he does not shirk...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5, Emperor

This is a Beethoven Fifth with a difference. First we get it as you’d expect it, with Katsaris taking the...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014

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