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LACHENMANN My Melodies

Lachenmann’s title is a playful tease in the spirit of the toy frogs who pop up in his 1983 ensemble...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2024

HOWARD Orchestral Works (Seal)

There has not previously been a release devoted to Dani Howard (b1993). Fluent across the broad range of genres (witness...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2024

HAYDN 'Haydn 2032, Vol 15: La Reine' (Antonini)

Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024

GORDON 'The Impermanence of Things'

Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024

ELFMAN Percussion Concerto. Wunderkammer (Colin Currie)

Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024

DVOŘÁK; SCHUMANN; SCHREKER 'Eastbound'

Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony Nos 1 & 7 (Poschner)

The latest releases in Capriccio’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies feature a new edition of the Seventh Symphony by Paul...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2024

BRONSART; HENSELT Piano Concertos (Paul Wee)

The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024

BRITTEN Spring Symphony. Sinfonia da Requiem. The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Rattle)

For all his skill as an operatic composer and word-setter, Britten was not a natural symphonist. The two larger works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024

BLOCH Schelomo BRUCH Kol Nidrei DOHNÁNYI Konzertstuck

Tim Posner’s name may be new to many readers but this young British cellist’s credentials are impressive, his current hats...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024

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