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HILLBORG Violin Concerto No 2. Liquid Marble (Eldbjørg Hemsing)

Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No 2 is a real head-scratcher, but after eight or nine listens I’m just about ready...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024

HARTMANN 'Rediscovered'

It might be construed as ironic were the music of Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) to achieve wider recognition as a...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2024

GERHARD Don Quixote. Suite from Alegrías. Pedrelliana (Mena)

Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) – a student of Granados, Pedrell and Schoenberg – left Spain after the civil war...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 7-9. Overtures (Bychkov)

There is, of course, a very real sense of ownership when the Czech Philharmonic play these pieces. Everything evolves so...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 1 (Eric Guo)

In October 2023 Toronto-born pianist Eric Guo, 21, won first prize in the Second Chopin International Competition on Period Instruments...

Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 (Welser-Möst)

Unlike his previous recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with the Clevelanders, which was filmed in concert in St Florian in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Roth)

Both of these recordings were set down in 2020 and have presumably been held back until now to coincide with...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024

CPE BACH; KRAFT Cello Concertos (Jean-Guihen Queyras)

Whereas cellists who record CPE Bach’s three cello concertos usually place them together on a single album, Jean-Guihen Queyras and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2024

French Opera Overtures By Auber, Planquette and Lecocq

The title is a little misleading. True, there are five 19th-century French overtures here, including three by Auber and one...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2024

BEETHOVEN 'The Middle Quartets' (Calidore Quartet)

Any new recording of Beethoven’s quartets will provoke argument. Preconceptions inevitably play their part. What cannot be denied is the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024

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