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MARTHINSEN Snapshot Symphony

Niels Marthinsen’s Snapshot Symphony (2009) follows its predecessor, Monster (1995, 10/06), by 14 years and equal blithe disregard for Classical...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012

LISZT Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 WAGNER A Faust Overture

Personally, I have never been swept away by Barenboim’s Liszt. While I stand in awe of his accomplishments as a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012

KALKBRENNER Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

Friedrich (Frédéric) Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) is remembered – if at all – as the figure who famously offered to...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2012

HEROLD 4 Concertos for Piano and Orchestra

Despite the implausible name of the booklet writer, C Content, I am not at all happy with the rudimentary liner-notes...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012

HAYDN Violin Concertos Hob VIIa, Nos 1-3

Haydn’s concertos do not count among his most popular works and it’s perhaps not difficult to see why. Composed during...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 90 & 92

Familiar feelings of anticipation and trepidation on unwrapping the latest recording from Thomas Fey quickly turned to dread on remembering...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012

GUBAIDULINA Orchestral Music

Sofia Gubaidulina’s music ranges wide, often beyond conventional instruments and instrumental groupings, and plunges deep, both technically and into ideas...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2012

GERSHWIN Piano Concerto. Rhapsody No 2

If we have to have yet another recording of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, there are things to admire in this one....

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 05/2012

FALLA Nights in the Gardens; El sombrero de tres picos

As Chandos’s informative and evocative notes tell us, we have Grieg (an unlikely source, though, like Falla, a devoted nationalist)...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012

DVOŘÁK Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op.104

Dvořák wrote his masterly Cello Concerto in 1894-95, at the end of his American period, during which he was director...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2012

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