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BRUCH A Scottish Fantasy (Bell)

Joshua Bell was in his teens when he first recorded the Bruch G minor and Mendelssohn concertos with Neville Marriner...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 (Goerner)

Alpha is a label that gets ever more wide-ranging, as witness the discs of Shostakovich chamber music (see page 63)...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018

Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert

Claudio Abbado stepped down from his post as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 on the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Trio Op 11

The opening orchestral tutti seems to augur well for this new account of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. I do miss the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

CPE BACH Cello Concertos. Symphony (Queyras)

There can’t be many ensembles around as stylistically fleet-footed as Hamburg’s Ensemble Resonanz. I’m still thinking fondly back to their...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018

AULIN Violiin Concertos Nos 1-3

Tor Aulin (1866-1914) had a tough life. He was three when his father died, his mother was heartlessly strict, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

We, Like Salangan Swallows …

This panorama of visionary sound and process from Morton Feldman and contemporaries covers a period in American music when Feldman,...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2018

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring. The Firebird Suite (Bernard)

There was a time when The Rite of Spring put an orchestra through its paces, and the palpable effort of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018

KNEHANS Unfinished Earth. Tempest

There are many really fine American composers for orchestra at the moment, though few have the international presence of, say,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018

RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Corelli LISZT Paganini Etudes

Many pianists, I suspect, would envy the long résumé of recital dates, chamber music collaborations and teaching credits mentioned in...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018

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