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MAHLER Symphony No 7 (Jansons)

I barely recognise the symphony I know and love as being wild and wonderful, elemental, fantastical, startling, from this beautifully...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Roth)

On the reverse of the accompanying booklet (of which more anon) much is made of the Gürzenich Orchestra’s association with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018

British Violin Concertos

All three composers were (or are) career academics, but it’s notable how Paul Patterson’s concerto of 2013 wants most to...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018

GREENWOOD Water MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik

ABC’s press release puts it neatly on the line: ‘The Australian Chamber Orchestra and ABC Classics present the first Australian-produced...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018

PENDERECKI Symphony No 2 DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7

Don’t approach Krzysztof Penderecki’s Christmas Symphony expecting sleigh bells and festive frolics. It’s a dark, sombre work, more ‘Four Horsemen...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2. STRAUSS Der Bürger als Edelmann

The recordings on this two-CD set originate from a concert at the Salzburg Festival celebrating Riccardo Muti’s 75th birthday. Both...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2018

ELGAR; BRUCH Violin Concertos

Sir Neville Marriner, who was originally to have conducted this recording, had a connection to Elgar’s Violin Concerto, as he...

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

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Argerich)

Seiji Ozawa is 82 and Martha Argerich is 76, yet they go at Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto like a pair...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

BARTÓK Piano Concerto No 3. Concerto for Orchestra

Late, late, Bartók – the pair of masterpieces that could and would have turned his fortunes around during his final...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

CPE BACH Piano Concertos WQ1, 45 & 15

This is a disc to reinforce my feeling that Emanuel Bach’s keyboard concertos are notoriously hard to bring off on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2018

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