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RÖNTGEN Piano Concertos Nos 3, 6 & 7 (Oliver Triendl)

The German-born Dutch composer Julius Röntgen was nothing if not prolific. In addition to some 25 symphonies and three concertos...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020

RAVEL Jeux de Miroirs (Javier Perianes)

Fine though it is, this disc suffers, perhaps, from being too self-consciously programmed. Using what is effectively a palindromic structure,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020

PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Fischer)

Thierry Fischer pairs two contrasting Prokofiev film scores in this Utah Symphony release: the gritty, rarely heard cantata Alexander Nevsky...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020

NORMAN Sustain (Dudamel)

Andrew Norman burst upon the scene a few years ago with the three-movement, 45-minute-long symphony Play (2013, rev 2016), which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Petrenko)

This is one of those discs that commands respect (this conductor is pretty much always a safe investment) without setting...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020

MOZART Youth Symphonies (von der Goltz)

The catalogue numbers may suggest otherwise, but this disc gathers the four earliest known symphonies by the young Mozart, along...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

IVES Symphonies 3 & 4 (Tilson Thomas)

‘Gloriously gut-punching’ was a San Francisco critic’s verdict on the live performance of Ives’s Fourth Symphony used for this disc....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2020

HANCOCK Raptures (Parikian)

With his stylistic roots in the scores of John Williams and Elmer Bernstein it seems hardly surprising that Stuart Hancock...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020

GINASTERA Harp Concerto. Variaciones concertantes (Sidsel Walstad)

There aren’t very many concertos for harpists to choose from – and even fewer of truly high quality – which...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

FINGER Music for European Courts and Concerts (Rawson)

It’s been a good year for Gottfried Finger, the Moravian-born composer who moved to London in the 1680s and made...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020

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