Classical CDs
Classical CDs Weekly: Mahler, Schumann, Tamara StefanovichSaturday, 18 May 2019
Mahler: Symphony No 7 Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics)“It is my best work and it has a cheerful character.” So said Mahler about his Symphony No 7, and on the basis of this exuberant, feisty performance, Ivan Fischer... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Jess Gillam, Neeme JärviSaturday, 11 May 2019
Bach: The Cello Suites Alban Gerhardt (Hyperion)Alban Gerhardt looks as if he's hewn from granite in Adam Markowski’s superb cover photograph here. Even his Matteo Goffriller cello looks like it's been through the wars. Gerhardt tells us in... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Chaplin's Smile, Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments, Sollazzo EnsembleSaturday, 04 May 2019
Chaplin’s Smile: Song Arrangements for Violin & Piano Philippe Quint (violin), Marta Aznavoorian (piano) (Warner Classics)By all accounts, Charlie Chaplin was an accomplished pianist and violinist, and his first credited film score was for... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Shostakovich, Johannes PramsohlerSaturday, 27 April 2019
Brahms, orch. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Parry: Elegy for Brahms Gävle Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín (Ondine)Schoenberg's flamboyant take on Brahms's G Minor Piano Quartet sounds less and less authentically Brahmsian the more... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Gabriel Jackson, Lansing McLoskey, 12 EnsembleSaturday, 20 April 2019
Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ Emma Tring (soprano), Guy Cutting (tenor), Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia/Benjamin Nicholas (Delphian)This Passion sets a libretto compiled by the Chaplain of... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Mozart, Poulenc, Jeremy DenkSaturday, 13 April 2019
Mozart: The String Quintets Klenke Quartet (with Harald Schoneweg, viola) (Accentus Music)The viola was Mozart's instrument of choice when playing chamber music, his fondness for the instrument's warm timbre prompting him to add a second viola... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Haydn, SibeliusSaturday, 06 April 2019
Brahms: The Cello Sonatas The Fischer Duo: Norman Fischer (cello), Jeanne Kierman (piano), with Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano) (Centaur Records)Comparing Brahms’s pair of cello sonatas is like looking at the two piano concertos. There’s the... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Mysliveček, TippettSaturday, 30 March 2019
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)You can pick up a superb set of Beethoven piano concertos for under a tenner with little effort. This box... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Martinů, Prokofiev, SullivanSaturday, 23 March 2019
Martinů: The Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra Bohuslav Matoušek (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Hogwood (Hyperion)You can't overdose on Martinů: four reissued discs of concertante music for violin and orchestra might... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Mahler, Sibelius, Simon Thacker's Svara-KantiSaturday, 16 March 2019
Mahler: Symphony No 3 Düsseldorfer Symphoniker/Adam Fischer, with Anna Larsson (alto) (Tonhalle Düsseldorf)Mahler's vast Symphony No 3 is his longest and most ungainly on paper, but on record it’s one of the easiest to get right. At least I... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Lyatoshynsky, esbeSaturday, 09 March 2019
Bach: Cello Suites 1, 2 & 3 Amit Peled (CTM Classics)Pablo Casals famously recorded Bach’s six Cello Suites in 1936, his accounts largely responsible for changing public perceptions of these works. Previously regarded as little more than... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Dvořák, Higginson, ZenderSaturday, 02 March 2019
Brahms: Symphony No 4, Dvořák: Symphony No 9 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Jakub Hrůša (Tudor)Brahms became a close friend and mentor to Dvořák, the two men first meeting in 1877 after Brahms had helped the younger composer win a scholarship.... Read more... |
