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NIELSEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

It’s Colin Davis’s rotten bad luck that his versions of Carl Nielsen’s Second and Third symphonies should appear only a...

Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 05/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 12 - 14

Mozart’s reality isn’t necessarily ours. Scores he adapted for strings only, or strings one-to-a-part, probably augmented his cause and discouraged...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2013

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 25

In the concert hall, the still small voice of the fortepiano demands radical aural adjustment. On CD, microphone placing and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2

Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, his penultimate symphony, was preceded by the Italian (No 4) and succeeded by the Scottish (No...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2013

MAHLER Symphony No 9

This double album is billed as Gustavo Dudamel’s first CD with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has been conducting a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013

MAHLER Symphony No. 1 RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Op 45

The games composers play: inviting us to join the fun and think about them is a strong suit for Sir...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2013

LUTOSŁAWSKI Orchestral Works Vol 4

Lutosławski’s First Symphony (1941 47) may be stylistically impure, with, for instance, some barely assimilated Roussel in the opening Allegro...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2013

KULAKOWSKI Piano Concerto. Sketches for Jazz Trio and Orchestra

The new music scene in Poland has diversified apace these past two decades, with the jazz scene in particular taking...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2013

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 26, 27 & 42

Haydn’s Symphony No 42 is a remarkable work. Dating from 1771, at the height of the composer’s infatuation with Sturm...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2013

Michelangeli - The Early Recordings Vol 3

Michelangeli remains an ultimate musical enigma. One minute stiff and unyielding – a veritable Prussian officer of the keyboard (much...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2013

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