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PARRY Symphony No 4 (Gamba)

Three most welcome additions to the Parry discography, all enjoying a new lease of life thanks to the indefatigable musicological...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018

PROKOFIEV; NIELSEN Violin Concertos (Petrova)

Liya Petrova and Jiyoon Lee shared first prize in the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. Lee’s terrific recording of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 3 (Fischer)

Eight unison horns dramatically announce Mahler’s pantheistic hymn to the natural world. And if the opening bars of Adám Fischer’s...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018

HOLST Orchestral Works (Davis)

Initiated years ago by the late Richard Hickox and continued splendidly with Vol 3 by Andrew Davis (12/13), this latest...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2018

HAYDN Concerti per Esterházy (Beyer)

Haydn’s violin concertos do better on disc than in concert and period-instrument recordings appear surprisingly often. The C major and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018

GLAZUNOV The Seasons TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade (Kitayenko)

It’s hard to imagine any new recording of Glazunov’s The Seasons being anything other than a pleasure. It’s not that...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018

FOX Topophony

Calling a composition Topophony might suggest an emphasis on musical mathematics and acoustics. But the full title, ‘Topophony for orchestra,...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2018

ELGAR Short Orchestral Works (Lloyd-Jones)

Two of the last century’s greatest symphonists, though disparately placed in so many respects, had one thing in common: both...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018

DOVE A Brief History of Creation. Gaia Theory

Master of musical pragmatism, Jonathan Dove is also capable of thinking on a large scale – hence his settings of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

SCHUBERT Symphony No 5 BRAHMS Serenade No 2 (Gardiner)

With an economy of means that would serve him well in years to come, the 26-year-old Brahms wrote a single,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

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