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BERLIOZ Les nuits d'été. Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Love Scene

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati have already demonstrated their glowing credentials in Berlioz with last year’s release of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013

The Red Piano

Ever since New York Times critic Harold Schonberg panned the Yellow River Concerto in 1973 as a ‘rehash of Rachmaninov,...

Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 05/2012

75 Years of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition

The international violin competition in Brussels, founded as a result of the friendship between Ysaÿe and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium,...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Toronto-born Peter Oundjian (a prize-winning pupil of Manoug Parikian and former first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet) took over...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2012

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. Firebird Suite

The languid opening bassoon solo, which in this instance more evokes a humid rainforest than an unforgiving patch of pagan...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012

SPOHR Symphonies Nos 7 & 9

A depiction of Winter that opens Symphony No 9 probably exemplifies why Beethoven said of Spohr, ‘He is too rich...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2

Moscow-born Andrei Korobeinikov, only in his mid-20s, offers highly competitive accounts of the two Shostakovich concertos. Colourful, agile, sensitive, imaginative...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2012

SCHOENBERG Pelleas and Melisande

No composer-conductor is more sensitive than Pierre Boulez to the divergent responses to Wagner’s Tristan that can be traced in...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

The Rhapsody kicks off at a real allegro vivace, full of intent and purpose but with less sense of an...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 11 - 13

Andrea Bacchetti is a pianist possessed of poise and elegance, attributes mirrored by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2012

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