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SCHUMANN Symphony No 2. Overtures

There is no shame in reaching the age of 80 without ever having released a Schumann symphony on disc, but...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013

RESPIGHI Complete Orchestral Music Vol 3

The latest in Francesco La Vecchia’s series of Respighi orchestral music brings another generous haul of rarities and enjoys production...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2013

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1

It was a daring move on the 22-year-old Rachmaninov’s part to write a symphony in 1895, with Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

Strings – violins separated – are a trifle slender, woodwind too suave for instruments of the period. Timpani are intermittently...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2013

HINDEMITH Complete Viola Works Vol 1

In a short (edited) booklet interview, Tabea Zimmermann recounts the musical choice for recording Hindemith’s original, six-movement Konzertmusik, Op 48...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 25, 36 & 43

Thomas Fey can always be relied upon to do something unpredictable as his Haydn symphony cycle reaches its 20th volume....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2013

HAKOLA Guitar Concerto HOSOKAWA Voyage IX, Awakening

Seven years after issuing his hugely entertaining Clarinet Concerto (5/06), Ondine has released another big, exuberant concerto by Kimmo Hakola,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2013

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2. Solo Piano Works

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) left us with a body of concert works as individual and memorable as his more than 250...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6

Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony – the one he dubbed ‘Die Keckste’ (meaning cheeky, reckless, foolhardy) – seems to hail from the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2013

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Mario Venzago is a Bruckner revisionist, a man who poses fearless questions about what we think Bruckner’s music ‘ought’ to...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2013

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