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STRAUSS Lieder; Eine Alpensinfonie

Although he lived well into the 20th century, Richard Strauss ignored the new modernistic styles of aggressive dissonance and atonalism....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 1-3

With over 80 minutes of music and demonstration sound to boot, Shostakovich’s first three symphonies make for a compelling disc....

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 8

Andris Nelsons seems to have conducted every major European orchestra since he became chief conductor of the CBSO in 2008....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2012

SCHUMANN Piano Concerto Op 54

Another month, another Schumann Piano Concerto. It’s always exciting when an artist of Angela Hewitt’s stature takes on such central...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012

SAINT-SAËNS Orchestral Works

The core of this CD is formed by Saint-Saëns’s four symphonic poems, Le rouet d’Omphale, Phaëton, Danse macabre and La...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2012

SAINT-SAËNS (La) Muse et la Poete. Cello Concerto No 1. Symphony No 1

La muse et le poète for violin, cello and orchestra is, compared with the other two works on this disc,...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2012

NIELSEN; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos

Vilde Frang’s compelling, individual performance of the Tchaikovsky compares most interestingly with Ray Chen’s recent recording. Her volatility, her extravagant...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 21

Jan Lisiecki’s Chopin concerto recording with Howard Shelley received justified plaudits in 2010 and he now joins another pianist-conductor for...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012

MESSIAEN Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Olivier Messiaen wrote several orchestral works while still in his early twenties, and the pair of those compositions included here...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2012

MAHLER Symphony No. 5

It is unfortunate for Jonathan Darlington and his Duisburger Philharmoniker that their well-intentioned but rather faceless account of Mahler’s Fifth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2012

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