Music reviews

These are heartfelt, brilliant performances of the two warhorses. The playing here is not lightweight but rather brooding, revealing the dark colours of Rachmaninov's music. Both orchestra and pianist perform the concertos impeccably.

First the good news: This Shostakovich album by Nelsons is better recorded than the previous releases in this set (symphonies 5, 8, 9 and...

Music Review: Alchemy / Jupiter String Quartet / Bernadette Harvey (piano) / Marquis This new release by Marquis features chamber...

This is a major new addition. Codebreaker is a 55-minute piece for choir, orchestra and soprano, composed by British composer James McCarthy and premiered...

Review: Bruckner Symphony 6 and 9, Wagner: Parsifal Prelude & Siegfried Idyll / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons (conductor) / Deutsche Grammophon

Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto can be described as sumptuous, lush, exotic. It is said that the composer himself was inspired by the Polish poet...

Nimrod Borenstein’s Violin Concerto is a substantial work cast in four movements. It resembles the style of Prokofiev, Barber, Glass and -dare I say-...

The expectations run high when there is a new Suzuki release with his Bach Collegium Japan. It is really hard to find a weak...

This is not yet another recording of the Four Seasons. More importantly, this is not your standard historically informed account. This is fresh, insightful,...

Mahler, Symphony 2 "Resurrection" Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vänskä (conductor)Sasha CookeRuby HughesMinnesota ChoraleBIS Records