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GÁL; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Cello Concertos

Both these composers were forced from their homelands by Nazism, a big enough upheaval for anyone to come to terms...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 (Haitink)

It’s pleasing to see Haitink still including Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in his concert programmes, even if it doesn’t feature as...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Symphony No 2 (Dausgaard)

Once again, we face the familiar conundrum: a work that has overcome ‘pathos and Faustian conflicts’ and ‘extends its warm...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2 STRAUSS Burleske

Here’s the latest addition in Joseph Moog’s fast-growing discography, recorded in 2016 when he was 28. He has already impressed...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018

Now and Then: MADERNA Transcriptions BERIO Chemins V

Its title may evoke that of an album by The Carpenters in their heyday but this disc offers a welcome...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos (Goebel)

A new set of the Brandenburgs from Reinhard Goebel? One’s mind immediately goes back to the 1980s, when his first,...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2018

MIGNONE; ALBENIZ Piano Concertos

Don’t let the strange cover photo put you off (conductor looking into camera, soloist looking in a completely different direction)....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 BARBER Adagio for Strings

Shostakovich’s music abounds with ambiguities and coded references that beckon to us to read between the lines. In the Fifth...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018

PENDER Music for Woodwinds

Florida-born, DC-resident Scott Pender (b1959) is nothing if not a composer for the recording age. And a prolific one, at...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018

MOZART Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Cotik; Israelievitch)

The joyful virtuosity and stylish musicianship that Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin brought to their superb cycle of Schubert’s violin-and-piano...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018

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