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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4-6 (Mäkelä)

What we have here is a telling snapshot of Shostakovich’s symphonic journey with all its socio-political implications. With the Fourth...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2024

REINECKE Symphony No 2. Overtures (Raudales)

A student of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) was a prominent fixture in Leipzig musical life for four...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW2024

PROKOFIEV Symphony No 6 (Welser-Möst)

Shostakovich may or may not have been kidding when he composed his non- (or is it anti-?) heroic Ninth Symphony...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2024

MULVEY The Tyndall Effect

No one familiar with Gráinne Mulvey (b1966) would accuse her of taking the path of least resistance. Here, the legacy...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

LINDBERG Viola Concerto. Absence. Serenades

Now in his 60s, Magnus Lindberg is a prolific and resourceful contributor to spectral music, where ‘spectral’ has little or...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2024

HOLST 'Discovering Imogen'

This very welcome album provides a valuable overview of Imogen Holst’s music across a period of 30 years between her...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: AW2024

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 99-101 (Fischer)

As always with Adám Fischer’s Haydn, there’s much to delight and plenty to argue with here. Trademark Fischerisms abound: tempo...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 43, 44 & 47 (Mortensen)

Taking his cue from Haydn’s Esterházy forces in the early 1770s, Lars Ulrik Mortensen opts for chamber-scale readings based on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2024

GUBAIDULINA Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Bayan. Rejoice! (Manze)

Her 93rd birthday imminent, Sofia Gubaidulina continues undaunted upon her compositional journey. This release features the first outing for her...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Järvi; Poschner )

Capriccio’s release of the first and last of Bruckner’s symphonies sees the completion of the cycle conducted by Markus Poschner,...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2024

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