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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 17 & 25

Hot on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s vivacious K453 (complete with his own cheeky cadenzas) comes Uchida’s latest instalment in...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016

Music from the Motion Pictures; MORRICONE 60 Years of Music

Ennio Morricone attended the same high school as the director Sergio Leone, a handy link that stood them both in...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2016

MACMILLAN Violin Concerto. Symphony No 4

Now approaching 60, James MacMillan is surely the most recorded of contemporary British composers and this new Onyx disc couples...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2016

JONGEN Symphonie Concertante

Jongen’s friend Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that the Symphonie concertante might better be called a symphony for two orchestras, since...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016

HAYDN Symphony No 6. Cello Concerto No 1. Harpsichord Concrto

If I had heard these performances in concert I would doubtless have enjoyed them with few reservations. The 20-strong Australian...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016

GINASTERA Harp Concerto. Guitar Sonata

This centenary tribute to the Argentine composer Alfredo Ginastera is the brainchild of harpist Yolanda Kondonassis – an act of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016

GHEDINI Music for Orchestra

Little of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s orchestral music has appeared on disc, so Daniele Rustioni’s survey of four of his major...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016

COPLAND Appalachian Spring. Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Appalachian Spring is most frequently heard in the 1945 concert suite for full orchestra, which omits around nine minutes of...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016

CASTELLO Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Libro I

Dario Castello has in recent years turned into one of the stars of 17th-century instrumental music, a thoroughly deserved status...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016

BRUCKNER Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

Bruckner’s Second Symphony is arguably the most problematic of the canon in terms of textual matters. The critical edition published...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016

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