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STENHAMMER Serenade. Excelsior!

Wilhelm Stenhammar has never really had his due. Overshadowed by his Nordic contemporaries Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius, his productivity hampered...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite. The Wood-Nymph

Four Legends (from the Kalevala), Lemminkäinen Suite, Lemminkäinen Legends – none of the popular titles for this tetralogy better Sibelius’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7

I was at The Bridgewater Hall last October for the performance captured here on disc (the recording makes use of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies No 6

It was an inspired idea to couple two great Sixth Symphonies that inhabit, respectively, the 19th and 20th centuries, both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

STRAUSS Metamorphosen SCHNYDER Krisis. Psalm

Numerous composers (American and otherwise) have penned tributes to those who died as a result of 9/11, though Daniel Schnyder...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014

NØRGÅRD Symphonies Nos 1 & 8

There is a gulf of some 55 years between Nørgård’s first and latest symphonies. The one nails its colours to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

Brüggen mirrors Mozart’s love of clarinets in the balance at the beginning of No 39, the reverberation of Rotterdam’s De...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2014

MOZART Violin Concertos Nos 3 - 5

In the booklet accompanying this issue, Arabella Steinbacher writes: ‘These concertos have been with me since early childhood…I feel they...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

The last version of Mendelssohn’s First that I listened to featured Thomas Fey and the Heidelberg Symphony (Hänssler), a rugged,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014

MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music

Riccardo Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and his soloist, Israeli pianist Saleem Ashkar, give us an ideal, new-minted view of Mendelssohn....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

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