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The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Collection

There’s definitely something to be said for having a musician select a personal choice of favourites among his or her...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

WORDSWORTH Orchestral Music No 1

Toccata’s heartening excavation of music by the fringe but principled figure of William Wordsworth (1908 88) comes with a frank...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie (Orozco-Estrada)

This is the third Richard Strauss release from Andrés Orozco-Estrada and his Frankfurt orchestra on Pentatone. I enjoyed their Heldenleben...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

SIBELIUS King Chistian II Suite. Finalndia (Søndergård)

We are still awaiting Symphonies Nos 3 5 in Thomas Søndergård’s BBC NOW Sibelius cycle but in the meantime comes...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 (Urbański)

It was ‘the worst of times’. In his excellent booklet note, conductor Krzysztof Urbański recounts the background to Shostakovich’s Fifth...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 (König; Jansons)

Rendering (1988 89), a late instalment in Berio’s long-term engagement with the music of the past, now exists in more...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW18

SCHNELZER Tales from Suburbia

The Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) attracted a modicum of attention in the UK when his Tim Burton tribute A...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances (Ashkenazy)

This final instalment of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s latest live Rachmaninov retrospective offers more generous playing time than its companion discs but...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW18

PÄRT Tabula Rasa. Spiegel im Spiegel (Järvi)

Immutable, austere, impassable – the strength of Arvo Pärt’s music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW18

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 (Manze)

Andrew Manze completes his Mendelssohn cycle with the sprawling but oddly lovable cantata-symphony Lobgesang. This may be the triumph of...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018

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