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Thomas Zehetmair plays Ravel & Debussy

Starting as the impassioned solo violinist in a smoky, seductive performance of Ravel’s Tzigane, Thomas Zehetmair then conducts the Orchestre...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin. Rapsodie Espagnole. Boléro

During his tenure at the helm of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève brought his natural exuberance and taste...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

‘The most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today joins forces with “magician-maestro” Gustavo Dudamel,’ trumpet the critics,...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Another take on Mussorgsky’s Pictures – and it would seem that the Slovak Peter Breiner (b1957) doesn’t do things by...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 19, 20, 23 & 27

Even in an age when Mozart’s final concerto seems to be shedding its valedictory associations, Ronald Brautigam’s approach to the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014

MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Mendelssohn performed in Birmingham several times during the 1830s and ’40s – Elijah was composed for the Birmingham Festival –...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014

LIGETI Violin Concerto. San Francisco Polyphony

The arrow-driven harmonic certainties of Jonathan Nott and the Berlin Philharmonic (in Teldec’s Ligeti Project, 8/02 – nla) get straight...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014

KENDLINGER Symphony No 1, 'Manipulation'

Little known in the UK, Matthias Georg Kendlinger (b1964) enjoys a significant profile in parts of Western and Central Europe...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2014

HAYDN; HUMMEL; NERUDA Trumpet Concertos

To release a disc of the three ‘standard’ and, let’s face it, only chromatic Classical-period trumpet concertos requires some kind...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014

HANDEL Six Keyboard Concertos, Op 4 HWV289-94

For some of us, Handel’s Organ Concertos Opp 4 and 7 are among music’s greatest pleasures. What, though, do they...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014

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