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MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 (Seong-Jin Cho)

Seong-Jin Cho talks in the booklet interview about how much Mozart means to him and that conviction is apparent in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 9 (Netopil)

‘Very good’ with reservations, was Rob Cowan’s verdict (6/17) on the Essener Philharmoniker’s Asrael under its director since 2013, Tomáš...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018

HAYDN Symphonies Nos 49 & 87 (Christophers)

With this recording of Haydn’s Symphony No 87 (1785), Harry Christophers and his Boston band are now five-sixths of the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019

GOLDMARK Symphonic Poems, Vol 1

Karl Goldmark seems to be having a bit of a moment right now, and so too – to judge from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019

ELLER Violin Concerto. Symphony No 2 (Baiba Skride)

We’ve had slices of atmospheric Heino Eller from Neeme Järvi and Tõnu Kaljuste before (and Toccata’s survey of the composer’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2019

ELGAR The Wand of Youth Suites. Salut d'Amour (Elder)

Childhood, that most enduring of Victorian inventions, played an important role in Elgar’s life as a composer. We find it...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2018

ELGAR; FINZI Violin Concertos (Ning Feng)

The way Ning Feng shapes the opening phrases of the Elgar Concerto, I’m fairly certain he’s given careful study to...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2019

CUTLER Elsewhereness

Following his arresting debut ‘Bartlebooth’ (9/08) and the ‘Drempel’ miscellany as co-director of Noszferatu (1/11), ‘Elsewhereness’ is Joe Cutler’s second...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019

BRUCH; STENHAMMAR Violin Concertos (Svarfvar)

Christian Svarfvar muses poetically over the opening solo of the Bruch Concerto. He’s hardly alone in disregarding the composer’s instruction...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/19

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Antonini)

Back in September 2010 I remarked how the Fifth and Sixth symphonies ‘really swing’ under Giovanni Antonini, and now his...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2019

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