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WIRÉN Symphony No 3. Serenade. Sinfonietta

Completed towards the end of the Second World War, Dag Wirén’s Third Symphony acknowledges the starker ‘militaristic’ modalities of the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018

STRAVINSKY Music for Solo Piano and Piano & Orchestra

Peter Donohoe’s rapturous reception at the 1982 Moscow Competition (see his remarkable blog account) was sparked not least by his...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2018

STERNDALE BENNETT Piano Concertos Nos 1-3

These three concertos were composed in the early 1830s, while Bennett was still a teenager and a student at the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

SMETANA Má Vlast (Bělohlávek)

Omnivorous as Jiří Bělohlávek was in his repertoire choices, his greatest contribution as a conductor was to the music of...

Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2018

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 6. Sinfonietta (Järvi)

Estonia’s vexed relationship with Russian power echoes Shostakovich’s unavoidably equivocal world view. The composer spent time in the Baltic seaside...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018

SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Herreweghe)

It’s often said (with just cause) that the spirit of Mozart hovers over the 18-year-old Schubert’s Fifth Symphony. Not only...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems

Saint-Saëns’s symphonic poems are rarely gathered together on disc. From the UK, there are strong collections from Charles Dutoit and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No 1 (Camille Thomas)

Those familiar with Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto will know that there is no orchestral introduction. The soloist enters on the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018

Visions of Prokofiev

It was a nice idea to spice a logical Prokofiev concerto coupling with a trio of transcriptions, the musician who...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018

PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto. Danses polonaises

Dang Thai Son nearly shot to fame in 1980 by winning the 10th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the first...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018

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