Musical Pointers CD & DVD reviews from 2006 through 2007
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December 2007
DVDs
Wagner Tristan und Isolde (Glyndebourne 2007)
Rossini La pietra del paragone (Paris)
Martinu The Greek Passion
Brisk Recorder Quartet (Campion - Domestication of the Animal World)
Busoni Doktor Faust (Zurich)
Nadia Boulanger (Mademoiselle, Film by Bruno Monsaigner)
Earle Brown Ne(x)tworks
Britten Albert Herring (Glyndebourne)
CDs
Heiner Goebbels opera Landscape with Distant Relatives
Koechlin String Quartets 1 & 2 (Ardeo Quartet)
Ives Songs (Jill Feldman)
Daniel Börtz (His name was Orestes; A Joker's Tales)
Margarethe Danzi (Sonatas & Variations)
Organ Gloriosa (Ulrike Northoff)
Buxtehude Trio Sonatas Op 2 (L'Estravagante)
Bartók & Martinu (Supraphon for Christmas)
Scheidt & Schein and Vintage Brisk (Brisk Recorder Quartet)
The Better Land Volume Six (Great Boy Sopranos 1912 - 1970)
Buxtehude Trio Sonatas Op 1 (L'Estravagante)
Rachmaninoff Preludes and Études-tableaux (Barbara Nissman)
Alkan Organ Music Vol 2 (Kevin Bowyer)
Coates Symphony 15/Cantata da Requiem/Transitions
Nörgard & Hind (mainly Works For Piano)
Pintscher en sourdine; tenebrae; Reflections on Narcissus
Dowland Lute music Vol 3 (Nigel North)
Monteverdi Madrigals etc (I Fagiolini)
Campion, Byrd etc (Domestication of the Animal World)
Swayne (music for cello & piano)
Robert Parsons (Voces Cantabiles)
J S Bach Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Jill Crossland, piano)
Berkeley String Quartets
Albeniz, Bartok, Falla, Ketelby, Khachaturian, Kosma etc (Taraf de Haidouks)
Elizabethan Ballads, Ayres & Dances (Pantagruel)
Purcell, Blow, Croft & Humphrey (Les Arts Florissants /William Christie)
Gregers Brinch piano works
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols/Hodie
November 2007
DVDs
Monteverdi Vespers (ARTS- Lugano)
Tan Dun Tea & Broken Silence
The Full Monteverdi (I Fagiolini/La Bouchadière)
CDs
Boccherini - Cello Concertos etc (Ophélie Gaillard, Sandrine Piau & Ensemble Pulcinella)
Monteverdi Vespers (ARTS- Lugano)
D'Indy Piano Sonata in E Minor op.63 etc
Paul Carey Jones/Llyr Williams - song recital
September/October 2007
DVDs
Rossini La pietra del paragone (Madrid)
Dillon Traumwerk (Duo Gelland)
Vivaldi Four Seasons Mosaic
Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci
Verdi Oberto
Lully Thésée
Verdi Il Trovatore at Bregenz
CDs
Brahms Quartets Nos 1 & 3 (Takacs Quartet)
Boccherini (Documentaries "Neiges éternelles" and "Parfums de Madrid")
Grieg Slåtter op. 72 (Åshild & Ingfrid Breie Nyhus - Hardanger fiddle & piano)
Conlon Nancarrow Player Piano Studies 33-41c
and Stravinsky, Hindemith, Toch, Casella, Malipiero, Antheil etc - (Original Compositions of the 1920s for Player Piano)
Luc Ferrari (Chansons pour le corps & Et si tout entière maintenant…)
Lou Harrison - Concerto for Violin with Percussion etc (Madeleine Mitchell & ensemblebash)
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Debussy - music for piano duet
Ge Gan-ru (Chinese avant-garde)
Rotterdam String Quartets (Doelen Kwartet)
Theo Verbey (two portrait CDs)
Tippett Piano Works Intégrale (Osborne)
Metner Piano Works (Severin von Eckardstein)
Scriabin The Solo Piano Works (Maria Lettberg)
Tartini / Telemann (Hyperion)
Vivaldi - The Trial of Harmony & Invention - Vols 1 - including the Four Seasons - and 2 (Accademia Bizantina)
Vivaldi L'estro armonico
Bach, Wilhelm Friedmann (12 Polonaises, Sonata and Fantasia)
Brahms & Schumann Piano Quintets (Two-Pianos versions)
Beethoven Piano Concertos 2 & 4 (Mikhail Pletnev)
Schoenberg Orchestral songs, Kol Nidre etc (Naxos Craft Vol 7)
Reimann: Zyklus / Kumi Ori / Die Pole sind in uns
Lorenz, Pann, Jalbert, Garrop and Fung (Composers in the Loft)
Spectrum for clarinet (Mitchell/Myers)
Penderecki (Te Deum etc)
Silvestrov 6th Symphony (Kofman/Bonn)
Ireland Songs
Sarah Leonard (English Song)
Whettam Quartets
Verdi Luisa Miller (Maag, Pavarotti)
Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, Mahler and Silvestrov (ECM)
Handel – Messiah (Dublin Version)
Handel - Joshua (Maulbronn)
“Song of Songs” (Laudibus)
Schubert: Works for fortepiano vol. 2 (Vermeulen)
Valerio Sannicandro (Chamber music)
Sannicandro/ Mundry/ Schlunz / Schwartz/ Reiserer/ Furrer/ Riedl
(Dialogues - Music for flute & percussion)
Haydn, Mendelssohn and Kurtag (Asasello String Quartet)
Monteverdi L'Orfeo (Concerto Italiana/Alessandrini)
Flecha (ensaladas)
Birtwistle: Punch and Judy
James Tenney (Barton Workshop)
Poulenc (Les Animaux modeles)
James MacMillan a cappella music (Tenebrae & Cappella Nova)
Choral realisations (arr. Mitchell)
Arnold Piano Concertos
Madeleine Mitchell ("Violin Songs”)
Louis Couperin (Harpsichord Suites)
Mozart am Stein Vis-à-vis (Andreas Staier & Christine Schornsheim)
Schumann Schubert Mendelssohn (Meneses/Wyss)
An Italian Sojourn (Trio Settecento)
Vivaldi concertos & arias (La Serenissima & Mhairi Lawson)
D'Indy Piano works Vol 1
Catherine Bott (songs from medieval Spain)
Central European medieval love lyrics (Capilla Flamenca)
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress (cond. Stravinsky in New York)
Schönberg / Strauss / Komarova / Danzmayr/ Bartok (Cologne String Sextet)
József Sári (Music for brass and cimbaloms)
Rimsky Korsakov - Piano Duos
Buxtehude solo keyboard music (Colin Booth)
Solbiati and Dall'Ongaro (contemporary Italian composers)
Roberto Sierra Chamber Music (Continuum Ensemble)
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite, Symph N°4 (Anima Eterna)
Bax 2-Piano Music
Maxwell Davies Quartets 7 & 8
Peter Schuback - (music for cello solo)
Rorem Concertos (Piano Concerto no 3 and Cello Concerto)
August 2007
DVDs
Hindemith Cardillac
CDs
Paderewski piano music
Bacevicius Orchestral Music
Rubinstein plays Concertos
(Beethoven 4 and Saint-Saens 2)
Hartmann Violin works
Spohr Symphonies 1 and 2 etc
Beethoven, Brahms, Zemlinsky Piano/Viola Trios
Alkan Piano Works (Hamelin)
Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition (CD set)
Naïve Baroque reissues:
Handel Il trifono di tempo
Vivaldi concertos and cantatas
Stabat Mater by Pergolesi and A Scarlatti
Jesuit Baroque Music from Peking
Brahms Piano Quintet (Pollini / Quartetto Italiano)
Strauss and Pedersen Piano Quartets
Casals conducts (pre-war, Naxos Historical)
Ian Wilson
Cortot Encores (Naxos Historical)
Francis Pott's Cloud of Unknowing
Walton and Rubbra Viola concertos
Langgard Symphonies 2 and 3
Brahms Sextets in Piano Trio versions
Allgen Solo Violin Sonata
Brahms Violin and Viola Sonatas (Portrait Classics)
Quincy Porter String Quartets
CPE Bach and Mozart Orchestral Works
Mozart and Beethoven Piano /Wind Quintets (original instruments)
Carpenter and Skempton
Tippett, Britten, Arnold, Berkeley & Rawsthorne (Lyrita reissues)
Malcolm Williamson - concertos, sonata for two pianos
(Lyrita)
JULY 2007
DVDs
Angelin Preljocaj ballets (Paris Opera Ballet Company)
John Cage One 11 with 103
Mozart – Cosi fan tutte at Glyndebourne & Salzburg
Haydn, Dvorak & Schubert (Wihan Quartet with Jamie Walton)
Mozart – Lucio Silla (Salzburg M22)
CDs
Martinu – The Epic of Gilgamesh
Grieg String Quartets (Chilingirians)
Stanford Chamber Works
Medtner Complete Skazi
French Piano Duo Music (Immerseel/Chevalier & Labeques)
20thC Guitar Music Recital (Abigail James)
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin (Vollestad/Glaser)
Scarlatti Complete Sonatas Vols 6 & 7 (Richard Lester)
Uri Caine Goldberg Variations
Bach Motets (The Hilliard Ensemble)
Bach and the fortepiano (Walter Riemer)
Czernowin: Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Fleishman/Shostakovich: Rothschild's Violin
Shostakovich: The Gamblers
Brahms Sonatas (Wakabayashi, Vardi & Sturrock)
Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Bliss & Gurney (James Gilchrist)
Handel Organ Concertos and Harp Concerto
Vivaldi Arias and Sinfonias (Emma Kirkby)
Verdi – Reductions for small orchestra
Buxtehude Organ works and Vocal miscellany (Ton Koopman)
Taverner (Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford)
Margarethe Danzi & Mozart (violin & fortepiano)
John R Williamson - Songs
Beethoven Spring & Kreutzer sonatas (Leonard and Tinney)
Kukal Symphonies & Bassoon Concerto
Tsontakis Man of Sorrows
Rolf Borch (contemporary clarinet)
Christian Lindberg Composer
Åke Hermanson (2 CD compilation)
Peteris Plakidis (songs and concertos)
Hans Koessler (String Quintet & Sextet)
Andre Jolivet (Mario Caroli)
Veracini Sonate accademiche (Elizabeth Wallfisch)
Schubert, Dvorak Piano trios (London Mozart Trio)
Jennifer Koh (violin concertos and violin/piano fantasies)
Haydn Piano Sonatas (John Lill)
Bach Flute Sonatas (Folena)
English Violin Sonatas
Dodgson String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)
Donizetti Anna Bolena (Callas)
Havergal Brian Symphony No 2
Edna Stern plays Schumann
Brahms Violin concerto etc (Fischer and Zehetmair)
Strauss Wiener Blut
JUNE 2007
DVDs
Mozart Idomeneo
Mozart Lo Sposo Deluso /L'Oca del Cairo
Mozart Ascanio in Alba
Mozart Piano Sonatas and Concertos (Piazzini)
Debussy Fall of the House of Usher (Bregenz Festival)
CDs
Zeisl
Piano Concerto
Berg, Schonberg & Webern (Quatuor Psophos)
ROSSINI La Donna del Lago
Elgar Songs and Piano Music
Haydn
Piano Trios Volume 7
American
Virtuosa (Rachel Barton Pine)
MONTEVERDI Il Sesto Libro De Madrigali (Allesandarini)
Busoni
& Liszt (David Wilde)
Maxim Rysanov & Ruth Palmer
Geminiani Concerti Grossi and Trio Sonatas
Benjamin Wallfisch (composer portrait)
Schubert Der Graf von Gleichen
Portrait of an English Harpsichord (Steven Devine)
Zemlinsky
& Schulhoff Songs (Randi Stene)
Mozart
Piano Sonatas and Concertos (Glaser & Bilson)
Schubert Schone Mullerin (Glaser & Vollestad)
Gesualdo
- Madrigali - Libro IV (Kassiopeia Quintet)
Silvestrov Symphony No 6
Edwin Roxburgh
MAY 2007
DVDs
CDs
Elgar/Berlioz (Dresden/Davis)
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass (Tennstedt)
Strauss Songs (Hyperion series)
Brahms Symphonies etc (Dohnanyi)
Haydn Armida (Harnoncourt)
APRIL 2007
DVD
Ades - Powder Her Face
Chopin Preludes and documentary (Schiff)
Barenboim plays Beethoven
CD
CPE Bach Flute works (Juliette Hurel on Zig Zag)
Schumann Symphony 4 (Northern Sinfonia / Zehetmair at the Sage)
Sibelius Symphony No 2 etc. (Davis / Dresden SK)
John Jeffreys 26 English Songs
Bartok Composer Portrait (Stephen Johnson book + CDs)
Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico (Accademia Bizantina)
Reger Songs
Stefan Wolpe Songs
Ferneyhough Choral Works
Haydn complete Piano Sonatas (Buchbinder)
Kenneth Mobbs plays early keyboards
Alessandro Scarlatti 'La Folia' & Two Cantatas
Early Scriabin piano music (Stephen Coombs)
Klemperer conducts Beethoven
Hans Gal Piano Music
Schubert String Quintet D956
Eulenburg Audio +Score (concept review)
Avison/Scarlatti Concerti Grossi
Donizetti Don Sebastian, King of Portugal
Schornsheim plays harpsichord / fortepiano concertos
Demidenko plays Clementi
Modern American String Quartets
Ades / Schubert Piano Quintets
Alnaes / Sinding Piano Concertos
Schumann Vioin sonatas
MARCH 2007
DVDs
Mozart – La Finta Giardiniera ( Salzburg)
Mozart – La Finta Semplice (Salzburg 2006)
Wagner - Tannhauser (Bayreuth 1989)
Verdi - Otello (Barcelona)
Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro (Paris)
Mozart – La Clemenza di Tito (Salzburg 2003)
CDs
Songs of FG Scott
Bach Goldberg Variations; Partita No. 5 (Glenn Gould; Obert-Thorn transfer)
Peterson-Berger (The Doomsday Prophets)
Sibelius Symphony No 2; Pohjola's Daughter (Davis)
Sadie Harrison (An unexpected light)
Roger Marsh Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire
Roger Smalley (Concertos & Scriabin transcriptions)
Haydn String Quartets (Carducci Quartet debut recording)
Schubert Piano Sonatas (Howard Shelley, fortepiano)
Kagel Duodramen; Szenario; Liturgien
Schumann complete String Quartets (Fine Arts)
Chopin & Rachmaninoff - cello sonatas
Stravinsky – Oedipus Rex
Medtner Skazki Op 8 - Op 54 (Hamish Milne)
Kirsten Flagstad (Grieg – Wagner etc)
Schubert/"James" & Schumann/"James" WandererFantasy
Schubert String Quintet etc (Raphael Ensemble)
Schubert/Kissine String Quartet in G major
Judith Bingham – Choral Music
Manchicourt - Brabant Ensemble
Schubert, Spohr etc (Lieder for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano)
Handel ‘Cello Sonatas
Berio's Piano Music
Rawsthorne Piano Concertos & Symphonic Studies
Bach Mass in B minor/Jos van Veldhoven
Buxtehude/Koopman “Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht”
Cavalli: Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
Webern: Complete Songs
Franck - Melodies
Schoenberg: Vocal works and 1st Chamber Symphony
FEBRUARY 2007
DVDs
Ponchielli La Gioconda X2
Puccini – La Boheme (Madrid)
Wagner – Lohengrin
Torroba Luisa Fernanda
Dusapin Faustus, the Last Night
Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann from Bilbao
Prokofiev – The Love for Three Oranges (Amsterdam, 2005)
Bellini - Norma (Amsterdam)
Rossini Tancredi
CDs
Xenakis Thommessen Hegdal Hvoslef (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra)
Adams Piano Music (Ralph van Raat)
Arman Piano Trio
Mahler & Handel; Lieberson & Harbison (Lorraine Hunt Liberson)
Cherkassky at Wigmore Hall
Clementi Sonatas and Sonatinas (Liz Glazer - fortepiano)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Brautigam)
Gesualdo - Madrigals Book III (Kassopeia Quintet)
Francis Pott Choral and Organ Music
Ronald Stevenson - Songs
Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses (Susan Hamilton & Simon Woolf)
American Songs (Michaels/Buccheri)
Moondog arr Joanna MacGregor
Joby Talbot etc (The King's Singers)
English Songbooks of the 1700s
Music for the Coronation of James II
Grainger and Grieg Choral Music
Albeniz – Pepita Jimenez
JAN
Falstaff at Florence
CDs
Dutilleux (John Chen Piano)
Busoni Piano Music – 3 (Wolf Harden)
Judith Weir Songs
Bartok, Ben-Shabetaj etc (Voland Quartet - Two Pianos and Percussion)
Lex Van Delden Complete String Quartets
Havergal Brian Symphonies Nos 4 & 12
Scarlatti sonatas (Joanna Leach, square piano)
Morten Lauridsen – Choral Music
Stravinsky Renard etc
Nielsen: Chamber Works for Violin and Strings
Beethoven Sonatas Vol 4 - Ronald Brautigan (fortepiano)
Rameau Suites (Angela Hewitt - piano)
New Goldberg Variations (2nd review)
Shostakovich – Symphony No 13 “ Babi Yar ” RLPO/Schwarz
Arne Nordheim - Draumkvedet
The Essential Sibelius (BIS)
Sibelius piano works
Beethoven Op. 109-111 (Schnabel & Uchida)
Dallapiccola: a portrait
Rorem 'Cello suite & Double Concerto
Alfred Hollins organ works
Piet Swerts Chamber Music
DECEMBER 2006
DVDs
Bizet Carmen (Opernfestspiel St. Margarethen)
Malcolm Arnold (Tony Palmer TV film)
Conny Janssen Danst with Conjunto Iberiico
Strauss Elektra (Zurich)
Mozart Die Zauberflöte (Ludwigsburger Festspiele/Wolfgang Gönnenwein /Axel Manthey)
Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri revisited (copied from The Opera Critic 2002)
CDs
Bernhard Lang Theatre of Repetitions
Contemporary music from Sweden (Duo Gelland, Johannes Johansson etc)
Fuchs & Rihm (Minguet Quartet)
Higdon, Fitzell, Mackey, Gordon, DeSantis (eighth blackbird)
Elisabeth Schumann (Mozart and Viennese Operetta 1926-38)
Malcolm Arnold Edition (Decca, 13 CDs)
Malcolm Arnold (Solo Piano Music)
Mozart & Strauss (Thaous Ensemble)
William and Henry Lawes Songs
Vivaldi (The Purcell Quartet)
Nicholas Maw (Choral Music)
Riley, Donatoni, Loevendie etc (Conjunto Iberico Cello Octet)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Naxos & ARTS)
NOVEMBER 2006
DVDs
Roland Petit ballets
CDs
Schubert Holzmair/Eisenlohr (fortepiano)
Giles Swayne: Convocation
Recent Naxos releases
Bax Violin and Viola Sonatas
Ernst Toch
Tanz-Suite / Cello Concerto
Schumann's Carnaval (Dame Myra Hess)
Brahms and Schumann (John Lill)
Vaughan Williams & Gurney– A Shropshire Lad
Maulbronner Kammerchor/Jurgen Budday
Miserere Tenebrae/Nigel Short
Busoni – Songs
Elgar – Sea Pictures & The Music Makers
Landscape and Time (The Kings Singers)
Daubney Songs
Feuchtwanger (Haydn Dickenson, piano)
Carl Vine Piano Music
Brahms & Schoenberg (Trio Jean Paul)
Mahler Symphonies & Das Lied von der Erde (Bertini)
OCTOBER 2006
DVDs
Verdi Rigoletto (Liceu, Barcelona 2004)
Marc-André Hamelin on DVD and CD
Julian Bream - My Life in Music
CDs
The songs of Judith Weir
CPE Bach, Dieter Ammann & Rudolf Kelterborn (Mondrian Ensemble Basle)
Geoffrey Tozer (For Children: Bach;Mozart;Schumann; Prokofiev etc)
Brahms, Wagner and Dupré (Robert Quinney, organ)
Brahms Piano Quartets (Hamelin & Leopold String Trio)
The King's Singers (R R Bennett, J McCabe, P M Davies etc)
Roslavets Chamber Symphony
Goldstone/Clemmow (Piano Trio in B flat; Arpeggione Sonata etc)
Elgar Piano Music (Ashley Wass)
Annie Fischer (Beethoven & Schumann)
Elisabeth Lutyens: Chamber and choral works (Exaudi/Endymion)
Brahms German Requiem (Vasari Singers)
Bach Clavieruebungen (Elizabeth de la Porte)
Debussy Pour le Piano , Estampes , Preludes Bk 1 etc (Roy Howat)
Debussy Preludes (Steven Osborne)
IVES Symphonies (Litton)
Adrian Jack String Quartets (Arditti)
Ivan Fedele (music for ensembles, with solo flute and clarinet)
Hindemith, Janacek & Seeger String Quartets
Satsuki Odamura (music for Japanese traditional instruments)
Debussy early piano music (Roy Howat)
Godowsky & Beethoven/Liszt etc (David Stanhope)
John Adams violin concerto (Chloë Hanslip)
Roslavets Violin Sonatas
Shostakovich The Complete Symphonies (Oleg Caetini)
Rostropovich live in 1985 (Concertos by Elgar, Haydn and Saint-Saens)
Julian Anderson (2001-2005)
SEPTEMBER 2006
DVDs
Mozart La Finta Giardiniera (Zurich Opera)
CDs
Mikhail Shilyaev (promo CDs)
Auerbach plays Auerbach
Sacchini Oedipe à Colone
Bruckner Symphony No.7 (Barbirolli)
Will Todd
Mass in Blue
Aleksander Szram (piano) Into the 21st Century
Tanya Prochazka (Britten, Ireland, Walton and Elgar)
New Goldberg Variations (six American composers)
AUGUST 2006
DVDs
