Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
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SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Alexandre Kantorow)
The prospect of a recording of any of Saint-Saëns’s works for piano and orchestra is always a delightful one. You...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
RIHM #39 & #40: Sphäre Nach Studie. Stabat Mater. Male über Male 2. Jagden und Formen
In our polystylistic age, has any major composer been more polystylistic than Wolfgang Rihm? On the turn of a dime,...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022
RAUTAVAARA Lost Landscapes: Works For Violin and Orchestra (Simone Lamsma)
Here we have ‘late-period Rautavaara’ – music written after the composer’s aortic dissection of 2004 and the extensive convalescence that...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022
PEJACEVIC Piano Concerto Op 33. Symphony Op 41 (Peter Donohoe)
Though not world-premiere recordings – both the Symphony in F sharp minor (1916‑17) and the Piano Concerto in G minor...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022
MOZART Piano Concertos, Vol 4 - K503; K466 (Anne Marie McDermott)
Anne-Marie McDermott reaches the fourth volume of her Mozart cycle with various conductors, offering the same concerto coupling as Jeremy...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 23 (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
The word ‘naturalness’ is such a cliché, yet it applies to every aspect of this release. Take the opening ritornello...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2022
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1. Piano Sextet (Yuja Wang)
Yuja Wang is clearly the star billing on this new release in DG’s recently launched Verbier Festival Gold digital-only series....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022
HENDRICKX; MOZART 'Flow' Clarinet Concertos (Annelien Van Wauwe)
During lockdown, while some of us got stuck into baking sourdough, clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe practised yoga and commissioned Flemish...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022
GUBAIDULINA Orchestral Works (Kalitzke; Klee)
This is a most interesting collection of three of Sofia Gubaidulina’s less-heard orchestral works. Pro et contra, from 1989, is...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Remember the Beethoven semiquincentennial? The 250th-birthday celebration which was squeezed, contorted, if not ignored all together, in the face of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Joan Sutherland: The Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Ashley hears the first instalment in a reissue of Joan Sutherland’s complete recordings
Review - Roberto Alagna: All’Opera
Mark Pullinger enjoys a survey of the ever-youthful tenor’s EMI recordings
Box-set Round-up: December 2024 (Poschner, Knappertsbusch, Schaller)
Rob Cowan listens to sets of Bruckner and Schubert symphonies, plus a pair of pianists
Review - Colin Davis in Amsterdam and London
David Gutman revisits the British conductor’s recordings with two major orchestras
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