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SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy. Prometheus (Yevgeny Sudbin)

Not even Breaking Bad-style blue meth – so I would imagine – can rival Scriabin’s mind-altering explorations of the celestial...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2022

SCHUMANN Symphony Nos 1 & 2 (Alsop. Re-orch. Mahler)

A piece of music (or indeed any work of art) exists on two temporal planes: as an artefact of its...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

ROTT Symphony No 1 (Hrůša)

Hans Rott was 19 when he composed the first movement of his Symphony for a competition at the Vienna Conservatory...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022

POULENC Sinfoniettas (Slobodeniouk) Orchestral Works (Tovey)

These overlapping collections reflect persuasive if divergent ideas about programme-building and interpretation. Common to both is Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, written for...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

MENDELSSOHN Orchestral Works (Biondi)

Unless I’m mistaken, aside from their 2018 account of Verdi’s Macbeth in its original 1847 version, Fabio Biondi and Europa...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Rattle)

In a matter of only weeks before this recording arrived for review I’d been privileged to witness two great (and...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022

KABELÁČ Mystery of Time

The music of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-79, not 1891-1953 as the booklet’s biography has it) really should be far better known...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 6-8 (Solomon)

Haydn’s three ‘Times of Day’ Symphonies must be among the most-recorded of all the works of his very early period....

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022

GIPPS Orchestral Works (Gamba)

Although as a pianist she was virtuoso enough to play concertos by Brahms and Glazunov, the oboe was Ruth Gipps’s...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022

Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries (Rachel Barton Pine)

This is the 25th-anniversary reissue of Rachel Barton Pine’s groundbreaking album ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022

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