Christian Tetzlaff (violin)/Swedish RSO/Daniel Harding (Ondine)It's rare that a new work's performance overshadows the piece itself, but Christian Tetzlaff's account of the violin concerto Jörg Widmann composed for ...
Prague RSO/Netopil (Supraphon)With the exception of two unfinished scores, a violin concerto and a symphony about the Danube, this disc collects together all the independent orchestral works of Janáček's ...
Freddy Kempf (piano)Freddy Kempf crams as much as he can into his version of the Études Symphoniques. Starting with the revised edition that Schumann published in 1852, he restores the two movements from the original ...
Royal Festival Hall, LondonWagner in the concert hall is an inevitable compromise, but this 200th-birthday anniversary concert, which also launched London's Wagner 200 festival, lacked nothing for commitment to the ...
Coote/Fritz/Netherlands PO/Albrecht (PentaTone) Alice Coote's many admirers will be grateful to have her performance in Mahler's great song-symphony documented in a carefully made studio recording, for she has emerged over ...
One of France's leading composers, he used colour, harmony and form to magical effectHenri Dutilleux, who has died aged 97, was the outstanding French composer between Messiaen and Boulez and, like both of them, achieved a ...
Stephen Moss explores Wagner's heroine from perhaps the most significant musical work of the 19th centuryI is for Isolde, the greatest female figure in the Wagnerian canon (some might choose ...
French composer Henri Dutilleux has died at the age of 97, it was announced earlier today. I recently wrote about his exquisite catalogue of pieces in my contemporary music guide. His is music of luminous enchantment that was only becoming ...
In his time the composer's 'dangerously stimulating' music was blamed for melancholy, hysteria, hypnosis and even triggering orgasm Reports may seem far-fetched that a German production of ...
Born 200 years ago today, the German composer is credited with changing the face of music forever. But do you know your Tannhäuser from your Wagner tuba? Test your knowledge here