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HALVORSEN Orchestral Works Vol 4

The previous releases in Chandos’s Halvorsen orchestral series juxtaposed shorter pieces with the symphonies and theatrical suites. Having run out...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012

GRIEG Piano Concerto Op 16. 4 Norwegian Dances Op 35. Lyric Suite Op 54

More Grieg from a German radio orchestra under a Norwegian baton. And, like Eivind Aadland’s recent work in Cologne (Audite,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012

GÁL Symphony No 4 SCHUMANN Symphony No 2

If there were an Olympic discipline for transparency of orchestration (not so fanciful a notion, since music formed part of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012

SAINSBURY; FOULDS Cello Concertos

It is a particular pleasure to welcome Lionel Sainsbury’s Cello Concerto, since many years ago by happenstance (it’s a long...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012

ELGAR Cello Concerto; Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 1-5

In the concert hall Paul Watkins has already shown himself to be an exemplary exponent of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, so...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

Daniel Barenboim is both the most inspiring and at times the most exasperating of interpretative geniuses. In Bruckner, whole paragraphs...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1

The last version of the 1866 ‘Linz’ edition of Bruckner’s First that I reviewed was Mario Venzago’s with the Tapiola...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012

BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1-4

The 100-year-old Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra is a modestly sized ensemble from southern Sweden which plays on modern instruments. Its work...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2012

BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Warmth and vitality are appropriate keywords for this coupling, a practical Bartók primer you might say, well played, persuasively interpreted...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012

C BALL Music for Cello

Christopher Ball (b1936) studied clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2012

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