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IRELAND A Downland Suite. The Overlanders (Yates)

Written as a test piece for the 1932 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, John Ireland’s A Downland Suite...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2018

HESKETH In ictu oculi

Kenneth Hesketh (b1968) is one of Britain’s finest composers and (at the Royal College of Music) teachers. His 50th birthday...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

DVOŘÁK Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Hemsing)

Try this disc in reverse order. Stephan Koncz has arranged Josef Suk’s Liebeslied for violin and orchestra, and it’s a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

STRAUSS Schlagobers DEBUSSY Jeux LIGETI Melodien (Nott)

In 1941 Richard Strauss devised five suggested ‘Programmes of my works’. Among them was a ‘light programme’ that included the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

DEBUSSY Jeux. Nocturnes (Roth)

Released as part of Harmonia Mundi’s Debussy centenary series, this superb disc from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles also to...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018

COPLAND Orchestral Works, Vol 4 (Wilson)

Whether or not Copland’s Third is ‘The Great American Symphony’, it’s definitely a tough nut to crack. Even Leonard Slatkin,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

BERNSTEIN Suite for Orchestra. Slava! Anniversaries. Fancy Free (Alsop)

Those disinclined to acquire Marin Alsop’s Bernstein edition in boxed form, handsome though it is, will welcome the release of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2018

BERIO Sinfonia BOULEZ Notations I-IV RAVEL La valse (Morlot)

In the documentary Voyage to Cythera, Berio makes it clear that the many musical references in the third movement of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

BEINTUS Le Petit Prince RIHM Das Gehege (Nagano)

Kent Nagano’s absence from the UK for two decades has been to others’ benefit – not least the Bavarian State...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2 & 7 (Jordan)

I’m not entirely sure why the name of the great early 20th-century Beethoven conductor Felix Weingartner came to mind as...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2018

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