Replay (December 2024): Edith Peinemann, The French Piano School, Géza Anda & Kolisch String Quartet
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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VANHAL Symphonies, Vol 5
This latest volume from Naxos devoted to the symphonies of the prolific Bohemian figure Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) fittingly bears...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2022
STRAVINSKY Ballets (Rattle)
Performing all three of Stravinsky’s early ballets in a single evening (I remember it well) was a tall order, even...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022
STRAUSS; KORNGOLD; SCHREKER "Metamorphosen"
While Metamorphosen may be the finest music here, lending its name to yet another distinctive album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
SCHNELZER A Freak in Burbank
Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) does a good line in clear musical imagery, responds with immediacy to clear ideas and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2022
SANTORO Symphony Nos 5 & 7 'Brasília'
As well as being one of the most significant Brazilian composers of the 20th century, Cláudio Santoro (1919 89) was...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022
RAVEL La valse & Other Works (Oramo)
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Ravel’s orchestral reimaginings of his piano originals is that both forms retain their own...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2022
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concertos. Capriccio Brillant (Lars Vogt)
Mendelssohn performed by a chamber orchestra and directed from the keyboard always looks like an enticing proposition. And so it...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Bychkov)
Whatever weight you place on Mahler’s Bohemian and Moravian connections, his discography contains surprisingly little that can be described as...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
COOPER Continuum
As society finally takes its first cautious steps towards a brave new post-pandemic world, more and more musicians are sharing...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2022
BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh is the first instalment in a new cycle of the symphonies being recorded by...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2022
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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