Erik Levi
Recent articles by Erik Levi
Songs of Fate
The Passenger
Schmidt: Symphonies Nos 1-4 etc
Reger • Senfter: Clarinet Quintets
Fathers & Daughters
Müller-Hartmann: String Quartet No. 2 etc
Weinberg: Cello Concertino etc
Ravel • Shostakovich: Piano Trios
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (LSO/Rattle)
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO Live)
Dutilleux • Weinberg: Cello Concertos
Edgar Moreau (cello); WDR Symphony Orchestra/Andris Poga (Erato)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Aziz Shokhakimov (Warner Classics)
Schulhoff • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 etc (Pittsburgh/Honeck)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra/Manfed Honeck (Reference Recordings)
Dependent Arising
Rachel Barton Pine (violin); Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Tito Muñoz (Cedille)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Rotterdam/Shani)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/Lahav Shani (Warner Classics)
Weinberg: Piano Works, 1951-56
Stefan Irmer (piano) (MDG)
A guide to Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2 and its best recordings
One of the Hungarian’s great masterpieces, this richly evocative work has inspired many top violinists; Erik Levi reveals the finest recordings of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2
A guide to Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony and its best recordings
Erik Levi explains how Matthias Grünewald’s powerful paintings inspired Hindemith's symphonic masterpiece, Mathis der Maler Symphony and finds the very best recordings
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Bergen/Dausgaard)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS)
Tchaikovsky: The Voyevoda; The Tempest etc
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Alpesh Chauhan (Chandos)
Mieczysław Weinberg: how the scars of war and Soviet politics shaped his music and life
The powerful work of Mieczysław Weinberg, a composer who lived through war and imprisonment, is at last being celebrated, says Erik Levi
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Four Orchestral Pieces
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis (Pentatone)
Bruch • Price: Violin Concertos etc (Goosby/Philadelphia)
Randall Goosby (violin); Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Decca)
Mendelssohn's Elijah: a guide to his choral masterpiece and its best recordings
The Old Testament prophet Elijah summons the attention of our reviewer Erik Levi, who names the finest recordings of Mendelssohn’s 1846 oratorio
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 etc (Sinfonia of London/Wilson)
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson (Chandos)