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MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. Song Without Words

Both of Mendelssohn’s splendidly assured cello sonatas and the Variations concertantes were composed for his brother Paul to play, and...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

HAYDN String Quartets

Big works, and written to be premiered in the Hanover Square Rooms during Haydn’s second London visit in 1794. Thus...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2011

'Made in Britain'

We have already heard John Wilson as a passionate exponent of English music directing a splendid new collection of John...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 8

The scene is the Royal Festival Hall, London. The occasion is a concert to mark the centenary of Vaughan Williams’s...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4 - 6

One man’s meat is another man’s poison, so I’d better state straight away that the visuals are not to my...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

Hot on the heels of Honeck’s ear-popping Mahler Third comes this fiery and impassioned Tchaikovsky Fifth. Clearly what’s happening in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2011

STRAVINSKY The Firebird

Les orientales was a potpourri of quasi-oriental dances assembled by Diaghilev (for, among others, Nijinsky and Karsavina) in Paris in...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011

LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra SIBELIUS Symphony No 5

Who is it for, this odd coupling drawn from two concerts given in 2008? Supporting the project is the Polska...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2011

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 12

With the Sixth and Twelfth Symphonies, the RLPO harnesses one of the most profoundly thought-out of Shostakovich’s conceptions to one...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2011

SAARIAHO Clarinet Concerto, D'om le vrai sens

As Kaija Saariaho approaches her 60th birthday, her music continues to extend in range and depth. Susana Välimäki’s moving note...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011

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