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MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos 3 & 5 (Emelyanychev)

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024

MAHLER Symphony No 8 (Vänskä)

The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2024

LEIVISKÄ Orchestral Works Vol 1 (Stasevska)

The ever-inquiring BIS label begins another series devoted to the orchestral output of Helvi Leiviskä (1902 82). Variously composer, critic...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2024

KUUSISTO Symphony Op 39. Pictured Within. Birthday Variations for M.C.B

An odd coupling, but you can just about get on board with the idea of two large pieces celebrating a...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024

JÓHANNSSON A Prayer To The Dynamo

A Prayer to the Dynamo (2012) was commissioned by Matthew Patton of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s new music festival, who...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2024

JARRELL Orchestral Works

As on its previous album (BIS2482) devoted to the music of Michael Jarrell (b1958), BIS has paired two of his...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 5 (Poschner)

Markus Poschner’s recording of the 1877 version of the Second Symphony features a new edition by the Bruckner scholar Paul...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024

BRUCKNER Symphony No 0 (Nelsons)

With a conclusively established dating of its composition to 1869 – between Nos 1 and 2 – Bruckner’s first D...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Kreutzer Sonata (Nemanja Radulović)

Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024

CPE BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182 (Janiczek)

For inspired craziness no 18th-century composer, surely, can touch Emanuel Bach. When Baron van Swieten, of Haydn Creation fame, commissioned...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2024

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