Mozart - String Quartets
Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet, so-called because of its harmonically-ambiguous slow...
View ArticleShostakovich - Violin Concertos 1 & 2
Daniel Hope performs Shostakovich's two violin concertos with integrity and...
View ArticleSallinen - The King Goes Forth to France
Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen calls this work 'a fairy tale for grown-ups' - it...
View ArticleBrahms - Piano Concerto no. 1
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are fabulously responsive partners to...
View ArticleZemlinsky - Lyrische Symphony op 18
An impressive recording of Zemlinsky's romantic masterpiece, based on a text by...
View ArticleBéla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle
A superb English-language version of Bartók's brooding gothic opera, with fine...
View ArticleJohn Foulds - Dynamic Triptych
Warner Classics' second disc of music by the undeservingly neglected British...
View ArticleRossini - Petite Messe Solenelle
Rossini's solemn mass, written towards the end of his life, is performed here in its...
View ArticleSchubert - Death and the Maiden
It’s the first recording the Takacs has made for its new label Hyperion, and they...
View ArticleHuelgas Ensemble & Paul Van Nevel - 40 Voices
...You’d have to have a cold heart not to be caught up in the performances.
View ArticleJanine Jansen - Concertos and Romance
...managed to make me listen to these concertos with something approaching fresh ears...
View ArticleGeorg Friedrich Händel - Concerti Grossi Op. 3 / Sonata a 5
I can’t think of anything that would improve this package...
View ArticleLeoš Janáček - The Makropulos Case
It’s the only opera I know starring a diva who’s over 300 years old, and still...
View ArticleJohann Sebastian Bach - Cantatas, Volume 22: Eisenach
...an unusual feeling of absorption, devotion and dedication...
View ArticleClaude Debussy - La Mer, Preludes
Let’s hope it won’t be long before we can hear the second half of the series.
View ArticleWolfgang Rihm - Volume 1
Volume one of this major post-war German composer's works given an emotional performance.
View ArticleValentin Vasil'yevich Silvestrov - Symphony No. 6
It feels simple, yet it obviously isn’t; it’s profoundly beautiful, timeless, and...
View ArticleHeiner Goebbels - Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten
A seductive, sometimes shocking and viscerally exciting musical experience.
View ArticleLeos Janácek - The Excursions Of Mr Broucek
This may not be the last recorded word on Broucek, but right now it sounds like a...
View ArticleRichard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony/Four Last Songs
...one of the finest Strauss recordings I've heard in ages.
View ArticleRobert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 and Overtures
It's as refreshing and stimulating as that icy plunge after a sauna
View ArticleHaydn - The Creation
...the recording captures the whole spectacle with apparent ease...
View ArticleYuri Paterson-Olenich - Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No.1 & Etudes-Tableaux Op.39
There’s something inescapably Russian about how Paterson-Olenich plays.
View ArticleFrank Peter Zimmermann - Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 & 2; Britten: Violin...
His sweetness of tone and intense, unselfish musicality pay dividends.
View ArticleDavid Aaron Carpenter - Elgar & Schnittke Viola Concertos
Prepare to be disarmed by a remarkable debut.
View ArticleBenjamin Britten - Unknown Britten (feat: sop. Sandrine Piau, Northern...
Buy this for Les Illuminations, but savour it for so many new discoveries.
View ArticleLudwig van Beethoven - Complete Works for Violin & Orchestra (feat: violinist...
Kopatchinskaja has something genuinely individual to say about this masterpiece.
View ArticleArnold Schönberg - Gurrelieder (Philharmonia Orchestra, feat: cond. Esa-Pekka...
An exhilarating journey, from illicit love to redemption with plenty of colour and range.
View ArticleSimon Keenlyside & Malcolm Martineau - Songs By Schubert, Wolf, Fauré and Ravel
A successful document of the occasion.
View ArticleSir Edward Elgar - Violin Concerto (feat. violin Nikolaj Znaider, cond. Sir...
What we hear is Znaider’s own heartfelt response to the Elgar.
View ArticleGeorg Friedrich Händel - Italian Cantatas Volume 6 - Olinto pastore (feat....
Utterly charming, transcending the obvious limitations of the text.
View ArticleJohann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, meine Freude (Sette Voci, direction: Peter Kooij)
A disc of serious beauty from Peter Kooij’s ensemble Sette Voci.
View ArticleGustav Mahler - Mahler - Lieder (baritone: Christian Gerhaher, piano: Gerold...
This could be the finest Mahler you’ll hear all year. Absolutely essential.
View ArticleIgor Stravinsky - Complete Music for Violin & Piano (feat violin: Anthony...
Two CDs for the price of one: an excellent souvenir of a canny composer.
View ArticleRichard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben & Der Rosenkavalier Suite (City of...
Young Latvian Nelsons conducts as though he believes in every bar.
View ArticleMonteverdi - Il Nerone, Ossia L’Incoronazione di Poppea (La Venexiana,...
A beautifully focused recording, regardless of who actually wrote it.
View ArticleBenjamin Britten - String Quartets 2 and 3 / Three Divertimenti (Elias String...
The Elias Quartet catches Britten’s powerful emotional undercurrents superbly.
View ArticleWorks for Cello by Bach, Brahms, Beethoven and Britten - Various Artists
You’ll almost believe you’d bought a ticket, so brilliant is this live recording.
View ArticleJohann Sebastian Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (feat. violin:...
The recording is a peach, perfectly framing Faust’s superb musicianship.
View ArticleArtemis Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18/3, Op.18/5 &...
Delivered with apparently effortless grace and effervescent athleticism.
View ArticleFranz Liszt - Harmonies du Soir (feat. Piano: Nelson Freire)
A Liszt recital that will linger in the memory long after the last notes.
View ArticleHector Berlioz - Les nuits d'été / Harold en Italie (viola: Antoine Tamestit;...
An account of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy that’s sure to exceed expectations.
View ArticleDmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15 (conductor: Bernard Haitink; Royal...
The focus is on its genuinely symphonic breadth, the deep shadows and pregnant pauses.
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