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AHO String Quartets Nos 1-3 (Stenhammar Quartet)

Listen blind to Kalevi Aho’s String Quartet No 1 and you might presume you were hearing some lost neoclassical Grieg,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2025

Matilda Lloyd: Resonance

Mieczysław Weinberg’s wryly acerbic Trumpet Concerto (1967) has fared well on records, with notably fine interpretations by Selina Ott (Orfeo)...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2025

Daniil Trifonov: My American Story - North

There is much to love in Daniil Trifonov’s salute to his adopted US (a second volume celebrating Latin America will...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2025

The Golden Age of the Horn; Auf der Jagd Romantik

Horns often hunted in pairs during the 18th century. The presence of a number of horn-playing duos in Europe’s major...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2025

TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Philharmonia’s Principal Conductor, seems to relish Tchaikovsky’s three ballets, programming selections from them in concerts that have...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025

SCHUMANN Cello Concerto (Christian-Pierre La Marca. Kian Soltani)

Schumann’s Cello Concerto – or, if we’re being really accurate, his Konzertstück for cello with orchestral accompaniment – represents a...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2025

SCHREKER Complete Orchestral Works Vol 2

CPO has long been at the forefront of making the music of Franz Schreker accessible to listeners, four of his...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2025

RIES Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Nisonen)

It’s too easy, of course, to chide Beethoven’s loyal friend and one-time pupil Ferdinand Ries for what he was not....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2025

PROKOFIEV; SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos No 1 (Ning Feng)

Ning Feng emerges from the dreamlike haze of strings at the beginning of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto with a hint...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2025

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 19 & 23 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Kristian Bezuidenhout embarked on his series of Mozart piano concertos with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in 2012. By that time,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2025

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