Orchestral

Review: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (NSO/Noseda)
Michael Jameson is wowed by Noseda’s interpretation of Mahler's madcap Seventh Symphony

Review: Nicolaus Richter de Vroe: Shibuya Movements, etc
Steph Power is wowed by Nicolaus Richter de Vroe’s orchestral experimentalism

Review: Schreker • Korngold • Krenek
This superb album brings together three Austrian composers who would go on to fall foul of the Nazi regime
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Review: Sun Triptych (Dobrinka Tabakova)
This vibrant second ECM release devoted to Dobrinka Tabakova shines a spotlight on her orchestral imagination at full radiance

Review: Strauss: 'Ein Heldenleben' (Philharmonia / Rouvali)
Sarah Urwin Jones is captivated by Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s take on Strauss

Review: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 etc (RLPO/Hindoyan)
Sarah Urwin Jones enjoys the RLPO’s fine-tuned approach to the ‘Pathétique’

Review: Handel: Water & Fire (Collegium 1704)
Collegium 1704’s reading is so joyous and brashly nonchalant that it's like hearing this music for the first time

Review: Sibelius – Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc
In his review, Malcolm Hayes is impressed by the surefootedness and attention to detail in this remarkable selection of Sibelius’s symphonic works

Review: Thomas Adès – Suites
In her review, Steph Power is left exhilarated by the LPO’s visceral survey of imaginative operatic suites by the British composer Thomas Adès

Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 5 (Tonhalle/Järvi)
In his review, David Nice thinks there’s no better Mahler 5 than this full-throttle recording by Paavo Järvi and his Zurich orchestra who set a fine new benchmark

Review: Stravinsky's Pulcinella etc (Toronto Symphony)
In his review, David Nice enjoys generous portions and fine playing in this Toronto take on Stravinsky’s brilliant Pulcinella

Review: Mahler 7 (Bavarian Radio SO/Rattle)
In his review, David Nice thinks this detailed Bavarian recording of Mahler 7 is the best possible way to mark Simon Rattle’s 70th birthday

Review: Gipps's Symphony No. 1 etc (BBC Philharmonic)
In his review, Geoff Brown is won over by persuasive performances and a splendid discovery in this striking selection box of rarities by Ruth Gipps

Review: An Atlas of Deep Time (John Luther Adams)
In her review, Rebecca Franks is awed by John Luther Adams’s immersive new work with Earth’s timeline at its heart

Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter (Review)
In her review, Steph Power is captivated by Donnacha Dennehy’s poetic portrait of Ireland’s unforgiving seasonal shifts

Adrian Sutton: Violin Concerto & Orchestral Works
In his review, Martin Cotton enjoys the vigour and showmanship on display in this colourful selection of imaginative new works by composer Adrian Sutton

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Tonhalle/Järvi)
Michael Jameson is blown away by this towering performance of Bruckner’s Ninth from Paavo Järvi’s peerless Tonhalle orchestra, captured in a glorious recording

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Mason Bates: Resurrexit
Terry Blain enjoys the synergy between Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony in this blinding Bruckner 7

Fauré • Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
In his review, Erik Levi believes Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Symphony to be right at home in Schoenberg’s epic Pelleas und Melisande

Bartók • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 etc

Eleanor Alberga: Strata

Enescu: Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Review)

Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore's Box of Dreams

