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Alison Balsom: Baroque Concertos

This programme of deftly configured trumpet adaptations of oboe and violin concertos fairly fizzes. Here we find that rare thing...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

G WILLIAMS Orchestral Works (Andrews)

When Grace Williams went to Caernarfon in 1969 to hear her contribution to the investiture of the Prince of Wales...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 11/2024

SUTTON Orchestral Works (Michael Seal)

Tony-nominated, Olivier-winning Adrian Sutton (b1967, Kent) is celebrated in the theatre world for his scores, the best-known of which are...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto (James Ehnes)

A veritable compendium of Sibelius’s writing for the instrument closest to his heart. There’s the big one, of course, but...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2024

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 6 & 9 (Rouvali)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali proves himself a persuasive Shostakovich conductor on this live recording, his first release of the composer’s music. His...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2024

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 8 (Emelyanychev)

The appointment of Maxim Emelyanychev to the principal conductorship of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was a bold and eye-catching move,...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

SCHOENBERG Pelleas und Melisande. Verklärte Nacht (Payare)

Following his well-received accounts of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (6/23) and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (4/24), Rafael Payare’s third recording for Pentatone...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2024

SCHARWENKA Piano Concerto No 1 (Jonathan Powell)

Scharwenka’s Piano Concerto No 1 is one of the greatest of all Romantic piano concertos. Completed in 1877, charming, full...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2024

PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear. Zlata Chochieva)

Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto sits uneasily between lush Romanticism and abrasive modernism. When he was still a daring young pianist-composer...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2024

MOZART Viola Concerto. Sinfonia Concertante (Diyang Mei)

There’s a fine performance of the Sinfonia concertante here. But the obvious selling point is Berlin Philharmonic viola player Diyang...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024

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