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CASELLA Divertimento per Fulvia GHEDINI Concerto Grosso

This is such an attractive programme that it’s hard to credit that three of the works here are receiving their...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017

BRAHMS 4 Serious Songs. Clarinet Sonata No 1

Despite Detlev Glanert’s self-professed feeling for the melancholia and severity of north German music (he was born in Hamburg), his...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2017

BERNSTEIN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

A disc of two halves, for sure: a somewhat sober Jeremiah and a scintillating Age of Anxiety. Perhaps there is...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9

The Ninth at New Year is a Leipzig tradition instituted in 1918 by its music director, Artur Nikisch. The event...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

LISZT Piano Concerto No 2 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1

Khatia Buniatishvili, with her trademark slash of red lipstick and tumbling, thick black hair, is among the most charismatic of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

Either Jascha Horenstein (in 1954) or August Wenzinger (1950-53) are commonly cited as leading the first Brandenburg Concertos to be...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017

ALWYN Film Music

William Alwyn composed these film scores between 1941 and 1959, when a visit to the cinema was a twice-weekly event...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017

ALNAES Piano Concerto. Symphony No 1

Eyvind Alnæs’s Piano Concerto (1915) has charm aplenty. The Norwegian composer’s score is tuneful and opulently orchestrated, and the virtuoso...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017

Jamie Barton: All Who Wander

Anyone who watched Jamie Barton sail serenely to victory at 2013’s Cardiff Singer of the World competition will know what...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017

SCHUMANN Dictherliebe and other lieder

The Swiss tenor Mauro Peter has the kind of Dichterliebe voice I hear in my mind’s ear: fresh, youthful, evenly...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017

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