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Dies irae: Liszt, Rachmaninov (Dmitry Masleev)

At first glance this would seem to be a relatively routine affair: three barnstorming repertoire staples, only two of them...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2025

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No 3 (Janes Ehnes)

There’s a wonderful anecdote about Paris-based Spanish violin virtuoso Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908) that was told by the wife of Fritz...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2025

KORNGOLD Violin Concerto STRAUSS Violin Sonata (Liya Petrova)

Readers of a certain age will remember when there were only two options for a recording of Korngold’s Violin Concerto...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025

KABALEVSKY; SCHUMANN Cello Concertos (Theodor Lyngstad)

A shrewd and compelling coupling for a debut album in the solo spot. Theodor Lyngstad is the principal cello of...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2025

HAHN Le Dieu bleu (Corlay)

When Serge Diaghilev commissioned Le Dieu bleu (‘The Blue God’), he was hoping to repeat the success Sheherazade had enjoyed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025

ELGAR Symphony No 1. In the South (Woods)

In its time the ESO has worked with many distinguished Elgarians. I will never forget seeing Michael Tippett in 1985,...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025

BUSCH Piano Concerto (Florence Millet)

Performer-originated concert music tends to land itself lukewarm press notices. Think of works by Klemperer, Kubelík, Bruno Walter, Weingartner, Furtwängler...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2025

BRIAN Agamemnon. Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 (Brabbins); Nos 29-31 (Fredman)

Even for ardent Brianophiles, Hyperion’s latest release will set pulses racing for its first recording of Agamemnon, the fourth –...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2025

BENNETT Orchestral Works Vol 5 (Wilson)

Poised as we are between the anniversary celebrations of Arnold Schoenberg in 2024 and Pierre Boulez’s centenary in 2025, there...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025

BEETHOVEN King Stephen, The Ruins of Athens. Leonore Prohaska (Equilbey)

This short album of Beethoven’s theatre music is a strange one. The overtures to Kotzebue’s 1811 plays Die Ruinen von...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2025

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