Music reviews

Underrated. Skrowaczewski was an underrated conductor in his lifetime. Yes the press would review the CDs he would release on smaller record labels but...

Review: Khatia Buniatishvili, Schubert Sonata D960 & Impromptus D899 / Sony ClassicalIf you like the art of piano interpretation this album is for you. As...

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...

There were times that I found the changes of tempo distracting, as in the Second Concerto which needed more energy and less thinking...

Music Review Mahler Symphony 9 / Osmo Vänskä / Minnesota Orchestra / BISThis is indeed an exceptional rendition of Mahler's 9th, distinguished, in large...

Rachmaninov, Piano Concertos 2 & 4 Daniil Trifonov (piano) The Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) Deutsche Grammophon, October 2018 When a piece of music is among your favourite works of...

Music Review Destination Rachmaninov - Arrival (Piano Concerto 1 & 3) - Daniil Trifonov / The Philadelphia Orchestra / Yanick Nézet-Séguin / Deutsche GrammophonThe...

Review - Nimrod Borenstein, Concerto for Piano & Orchestra (Op. 91), Light and Darkness (Op. 80), Shirim (Op.94) / Clélia Iruzun (piano) / I...

BR Klassik’s output lately consists of first class performances. Like its recent Haitink Mahler 3, this Mahler 5 with the Bavarian RSO and Mariss...

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