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MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Vänskä)

Positives first. This is a fine-sounding Mahler Third – up there with Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh account in the sonic stakes...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

ILLEAN arcing, stilling, bending, gathering

Lise Illean was born in Australia but is now based in the UK. Her compositions draw on landscapes that are...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

HAYDN Cello Concertos (Cameron Crozman)

Performances of Joseph Haydn’s two cello concertos always seem to be about the fast outer movements, but these recordings by...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2024

GORDON Mythologies and Mad Songs

Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024

FAURÉ; SCHOENBERG Pelléas et Mélisande

Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024

COATES Orchestral Works Vol 4 (Wilson)

Eric Coates is a composer to whom one returns in the sure knowledge that the spirits will be lifted, the...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Roth)

What is at stake in Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, writes Volker Hagedorn in an excellent booklet essay, is nothing less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

BRUCKER Symphony No 3 (1877. Poschner)

The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition includes three full versions of the composer’s Third Symphony, all of which have now...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 DEAN Piano Concerto (Jonathan Biss)

In 2015 Jonathan Biss asked five stylistically diverse composers to write concertos that respectively responded to each of Beethoven’s five....

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024

ALBERGA Orchestral Works

There are not many successful works for string quartet and orchestra – the concertos by Martinů and Benjamin Lees; best...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

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