CD & DVD reviews 2009
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December 2009
DVDs
Adams/Mahler (Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel)
CDs
Lyrita - Fifty Years of British Music
Haydn Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1 (Geoffrey Lancaster, fortepiano)
Violin Duos (Rudens Turku and partners)
21st Century Works For Solo Violin (Jennifer Koh)
Chopin (Garrick Ohlsson in Chamber Music and Mazurkas)
Eton Choirbook & Robert White (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, and Gallicantus)
Bach Orchestral Suites Suites (Ensemble Sonnerie/Huggett/Ruiz)
Lita Grier - Vocal Music
Words & Music X 2 - (Billy Collins & Christopher Fox)
Hugi Guðmundsson - Apocrypha (for voice, electronics & baroque instruments)
November 2009
DVDs
George Crumb Bad Dog
Fallen women & Virtuous Wives + My Own Country (Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson)
Prokofiev/Macmillan Romeo & Juliet (Royal Ballet)
CDs
Hallgrímsson - Mini Stories (Kharms/Simon Callow)
Schubert & Schnittke String Quartets (Asasello Quartet)
Music of Stefan Wolpe - Lazy Andy Ant etc
Ryba - Czech Christmas Mass
Music for Marian Festivals (Nurial Rial & Bell'Arte Salzburg)
17 C Music at the Habsburg Court (cornetto, duclian, bassoon & trombone etc)
Haydn Seven Last Words (Scaramouche Quartet)
Donizetti L'Assedio di Calais (Opera Rara)
Balada - The Death of Columbus
Xenakis - Complete Orchestral Works
Russian Piano Music Series - Shostakovich and Comrades (Murray McLachlan)
Arne - Artaxerxes (Hyperion)
IVES: Decoration Day, Fourth Of July, The General Slocum etc (Malmo S O/Sinclair)
Jonathan Harvey: Other Presences (Markus Stockhausen, trumpet & electronics)
Ultimate Berlioz - essential masterpieces (Decca)
Messiaen (Handy & Clayton)
Beethoven (cello sonatas and bagatelles with fortepiano)
Bliss, Delius & Bridge (Eniko Magyar, viola)
Two more Bach Goldbergs (Janssen & Hugosson)
October 2009
DVDs
Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini (Salzburg Festival)
Alfano Cyrano de Bergerac (Domingo)
Daugherty – Jackie O
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Sarah Connolly at ROH)
Mascagni Amica
Barenboim & the VPO at Schonbrunn
Batons, Bows and Bruises Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's biography
Rossini La Cenerentola (Glyndebourne/Hall/Jurowski)
CDs
musica viva Festival Munich 2008 (Scelsi, Stockhausen etc etc)
Roger Reynolds Piano Music
Sheng in Luxembourg (Luxembourg Sinfonietta Prize Concert)
Beethoven cello sonatas and bagatelles with fortepiano
Patrick Nunn Music Of The Spheres
Bach cello suites (Angela East, baroque cello)
Stylus Phantasticus (17.C North German Instrumental Music - Belle'Arte)
FRANCK String Quartet & Piano Quintet (Ortiz/Fine Arts Quartet)
Haydn: Philemon and Baucis
Tansman - Symphonies Vol. (Radio Svizzera italiana/Oleg Caetani)
George Crumb Makrokosmos
RUBBRA String Quartet No. 2 / Amoretti / Piano Trio (Daniels, Roscoe, Maggini String Quartet)
Schumann Piano Quintet & Quartet op 41/3 (Takacs & Hamelin)
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (Daniel Grimwood)
Ysaÿe string chamber music from Norway
Schoop, Schmelzer, Muffat, Krieger etc (Trio Settecento)
Milhaud song cycles (Farley & Constable)
Messiaen - Poèmes pour Mi (orchestral version)
Arnold Ballet Music
Hindemith Chamber Music (Spectrum Concerts Berlin)
September 2009
DVDs
Mozart, Falla, Mussorgsky etc (VPO/Barenboim - conductor/pianist)
Beethoven String Quartets Live - Wihan Quartet
CDs
Ives Responses (Heather O'Donnell, piano)
Luis De Pablo (concertos harp and cello)
Marco Cappelli - Extreme Guitar Project
Jeremy Dale Roberts – Tristia & Croquis
Martinu - Chamber Works (Caird/Schubert Ensemble)
Mozart Violin Sonatas (Duo Amadè)
Beethoven Quartets (Borodin Quartet/Chandos)
Signum Releases October 2009 (The Clerks, Jamie Walton & LCO)
Schubert - Piano Duets (Piano 4 Hands)
Charpentier - Three Sacred Histories
Alessandro Scarlatti David & Goliath
Bartók, Paganini, Ysaye & Zimmermann (Augustin Hadelich, violin)
Li-Chun Su, fortepiano - Live in Tudeley and Berlin
Tchaikovsky commissioned works (Mariinsky/Gergiev)
Rachmaninov & Grieg - Cello Sonatas (Walton/Grimwood)
Schonberg Gurrelieder (Salonen at Royal Festival Hall February 2009)
SORABJI Early Works; Nocturnes: Assertive Works (Michael Habermann piano)
LANGGAARD: Rose Garden Songs
Verdi Requiem (Pappano)
Twentieth Century Piano Concertos (Mewton-Wood)
C.P.E. Bach - Cello Concertos (Raphael Wallfisch)
German Flute Music (Khaner & Abramovic)
August 2009
DVDs
Phil Grabsky - In Search of Beethoven (Documentary film)
Messiaen – Saint Francis of Assisi (Netherlands Opera/Metzmacher/Audi)
CDs
Stravinsky - Balanchine ballets
Gabriel Fauré (Roy Howat with Emily Kilpatrick)
Palestrina / Gesauldo / White / Victoria (Lamentations - Nordic Voices)
Guerrero – Battle Mass
Olsen Mason Goves Molitor Hesketh (London Sinfonietta Jerwood 6)
Thea Musgrave - Turbulent Landscapes (BBC Proms recordings)
Ives Responses
Lansky & Wernick (American Chamber Music)
Anthony Korf (Symphony No 3 and chamber music)
Alison Stephens & Craig Ogden (Souvenirs for mandolin and guitar)
Rossini mezzo arias (Silvia Tro Santafé)
Medtner/Rachmaninov: Music for two pianos (Alexeev/Demidenko)
Prokofiev - Violin Concertos & Eugene Onegin (Mordkovitch, Downes etc; Chandos Classics)
Crumb Ancient Voices of Children; Madrigals
TCHAIKOVSKY Suites for orchestra (Dorati)
Haydn Operas Complete (Dorati, 1970s)
Haydn: Eight Keyboard Concerti (Christine Schornsheim - Fortepiano, Harpsichord & Organ)
Contemporary Flute Music (Susan Milan & Andrew Ball)
July 2009
DVDs
Tan Dun Water Concerto and Paper Concerto
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Christie/Pizzi at Madrid)
Bernhard Lang I hate Mozart
Strauss Salome: Ewing/Downes/Hall ROH, 1992
J. S. Bach organ works (John Scott Whiteley)
Lalo Le roi d’Ys (Liege opera)
CDs
Sir Edward Downes - Verdi's orchestral music
Verdi Requiem & Bartok Bluebeard's Castle (LSO Live)
Schnittke - Concerto grosso 1 & Symphony 9
SUK Asrael (Malaysian Phil/Flor)
Lei Lang (Portrait CD)
Fred Lerdahl - Orchestral & Chamber Music
Grisey, Lindberg, Sciarrino, Tiensuu, Zubitsky etc (Mikko Luoma, bayan)
David Starobin Favourites
Schreker lieder (Haselbock & Holzmair)
Purcell Ayres for the theatre (Parley/Goodman)
Dowland, Holborne, Johnson etc - Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Dan Welcher - String Quartets Nos 1 - 3
Fauré piano quintets (Hyperion & Naxos)
Balada Christopher Columbus (opera with Carreras and Caballé)
David Matthews Orchestral Works
Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 (Netherlands RPO/Wigglesworth)
Salonen Piano Concerto
Posadas: Liturgia fractal Five string quartets: Quatour Diotima
Dedicated To Haydn (18 new Piano Trios - Trio Eisenstadt of Vienna)
Haydn String Quartets Op 55 1/3 (Meta4)
Koechlin Les Heures Persanes (Michael Korstik, piano)
Bach - Violin Concertos (Mackintosh, Wallfisch, King's Consort)
Vivaldi Concertos (La Serenissima)
Mozart/Beethoven Pianoforte/Wind (Jan Vermeulen, fortepiano with Il gardellino)
Rawsthorne, Finzi etc concertos (Bebbington & CBSO)
Ivor Gurney Songs (Bickley/Burnside)
For Children Kurtág, Lachenmann, Gubaidulina etc (Steffen Schleiermacher, piano)
Webern: Vocal & Orchestral Works (Craft)
Music from Theresienstadt (Holzmair & Ryan)
Bussotti: il catalogo é questo
Feldman For Philip Guston (BRIDGE Records)
Celis & Vierne cello sonatas
BARTOK Concerto No. 2 & Sonata No. 1 (Menuhin/Philharmonia/Furtwangler/Baller)
Harvey: Works for Piano and Flute (Hoelscher / Grehl)
Klemperer Legacy (Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill)
Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique & The Firebird (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Fischer)
MAWHINNEY Batu, Barcode III and Hunshigo
June 2009
DVDs
CDs
Unsuk Chin & Otto Zykan - Violin Concertos
Britten - British Folk Songs & Britten Abroad
Clemencic KABBALA ( Hebrew Oratorio)
Gluck EZIO
17 C Devotional Chamber Music (Gonzaga Band)
Vivaldi Violin Concertos, Vol. 3 (Galfetti& I Barocchisti/Fasolis)
Ylva Skog (portrait CD)
Onslow, Reger; Wagner; Grieg, Balakirev (Piano Duets)
Nielsen & Ives (Andrew Rangell, piano)
Puccini Suor Angelica – (de los Angeles/Barbieri)
Boëly chamber music (Quatuor Mozaiques)
Farrenc: Piano Trios & Sextet
Liszt Abroad (songs in six languages)
Cello favourites (Angela East)
John Ireland (orchestral music)
Delius Violin Sonatas (complete)
Barber, Berlioz, Britten & Ravel (Jennifer Larmore)
Abrazo Tango (Compass - sax quartet + accordion & guitar)
May 2009
DVDs
Bartok (Solti, Perahia, Glennie & Corkhill)
Verdi Falstaff (The Met/Levine; Zeffirelli)
Tan Dun Marco Polo
CAGE (Chess Pieces, Sonatas and Interludes)
Kurtág Kafka Fragments
John Neumeier La Dame aux Camélias (Paris Opéra Ballet)
CDs
Sviatoslav Richter (DG recordings, 1956-65)
Peter Sculthorpe String Quartets Nos 14 - 17
Haydn & Mozart (Sacred String Quartets)
Paganini: Bartók: Skalkottas: Ysaÿe (George Zacharias, solo violin)
Barbara Nissman's Favourites, Volumes 1 & 2
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin (Harry Sever, boy soprano & Nadanai Laohakunkorn, piano)
Haydn: Keyboard Works on historic fortepianos (Richard Lester)
Haydn Quartets Op. 17 (the London String Quartet)
Haydn – Missa Cellensis (Anima Eterna/ van Immerseel)
Nancarrow Player Piano Studies - Calefax Reed Quintet
Scelsi Works for Flute and Clarinet
Scelsi, Berberian, Kelemen etc (Clare Lesser, soprano)
CHISHOLM Music for piano Volume 5 (McLachlan)
Kurtág Kafka Fragments
Bach Purification Mass (Burzynski/La Tempesta)
Elgar orchestral music (Philharmonia/Sir A Davis)
Hindemith - Viola Music Volume 1 (Lawrence Power)
Sibelius/Stravinsky (Zehetmair & Northern Sinfonia)
Roberto Sierra Missa Latina
Haydn 9 Piano Trios (Beaux Arts Trio)
Stephen Hough (favourite encores)
Mozart Requiem (Debussy String Quartet)
Bartok Concerto & Sonata no 1 - Menuhin
Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Carlos Suriňach; Moruja & Nobre (Yanomami etc)
Ries & Nisle Chamber Music (Ensemble Schönbrunn)
Mozart for Four Hands (M & C Dichter)
Haydn Piano Trios with Harpsichord
The Music of the Globe
April 2009
DVDs
Evelyn Glennie Touch the Sound
Three Kylian Ballets (Nederlands Dans Theater)
CDs
Caccini and D’India (Jill Feldman)
Bassoon recital and concertos (Karen Geoghegan)
Zemlinsky & Berg (Houston Symphony/Hans Graf)
Purcell: Ten Sonatas in Four Parts
The Art of the Viola (Heinrich Koll)
McCabe, Rabaud, Romero, Weber, Widor, Yuste (Maximiliano Martin, clarinet)
Prokofiev: The 5 Piano Concertos
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress X 2 (Naxos)
Beethoven Variations ( Florian Uhlig - piano)
Songs of Muriel Herbert (Gilchrist - Tynan - Norris)
Ivo Malec (orchestral works, concertos & cantata)
Sibelius & Shostakovich Symphonies (Hallé Orchesra/Elder & Cincinnati Symphony/Jarvi)
Gubaidulina - complete solo piano works
Scelsi Preludi (Alessandra Ammara - Piano) reviewed by Evis Sammoutis
Kurtág's Ghosts (Marino Formenti - piano)
Beethoven Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 (Pizarro & Mackerras)
Krufft - Sonatas for Bassoon & Fortepiano
Carmina Burana (original version)
South American orchestral music (Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Dudamel)
Rachmaninov Preludes (Steven Osborne)
English Vocal Music (Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Howells, Howard & Roe)
March 2009
DVDs
Verdi Macbeth at Sferisterio
Donizetti Maria Stuarda at Sferisterio
Handel: Tamerlano (Teatro Real, Madrid)
CDs
Guillou in Naples (Liszt & improvisations)
Haydn reissues on CD & mp3CD
Scelsi Preludi (Allessandra Ammara - piano)
Ohana (timpani/Discovery Records)
Schulhoff & Schoenberg - Flute Chamber Works
Paul Whitty: thirty-nine pages (Morgan/Dullea)
Mikael Edlund - a portrait disc from Sweden
Feldman: For Christian Wolff (California Ear Unit)
d’Indy - Symphony No. 2 (Iceland S. O.)
Britten Sinfonia's Songs of the Sky (Tavener, Martland etc)
Bach & Handel with Organ (Dantone, Verhagen & Mathot)
Haydn Complete Symphonies on 8 CDs ! (Nimbus/Esterhazy Recordings - MP3 edition
Berg/Mozart (Uchida, Tetzlaff, Ensemble Intercontemporain/Boulez)
Berg Orchestral Works (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Venzago)
Dufay Chansons (Tetraktys)
Beat Furrer - Piano Concerto and chamber works (Kairos)
Haas, Janáček, Martinů & Suk (Lada Valešová, piano)
Haydn Il Ritorno di Tobia (Cologne recording)
Haydn 6 Keyboard Works (Richard Lester, fortepiano)
SCHMIDT Symphony No. 1 (Malmö Symphony/Sinaisky)
Chamber Music by Timothy Salter etc (Alexandra Wood, Huw Watkins, Ensemble na Mara)
February 2009
DVDs
Honegger - Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher
Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke The Plains & The River (documentary films)
Massenet Werther (with Verdi Nabucco & Simone Boccanegra - Vienna Opera)
CDs
NORGARD Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
MACONCHY THE SOFA & The Departure (Independent Opera)
Busoni & Enescu Violin Sonatas (Stark & Pescia)
GOOSSENS: Symphony No. 1 & Phantasy Concerto (Hickox & Shelley)
Tchaikovsky - Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel
Russian Generations - String Quartets (S & G Prokofiev)
ROMANTIC AND VIRTUOSO WORKS FOR ORGAN, VOL. 3 (Jane Parker-Smith)
Michala Petri at 50 (with Kremerata Baltica and Chen Yue)
Albinoni, Couperin, Leclair, Simonetti, Tartini, Vitali & Vivaldi (Red Priest)
Bartók, Bach, Ysaÿe, Skalkottas & Kreisler (Herwig Zack - solo violin)
Strauss & Dvorak (Maisky & Gililov)
Feldman: For Christian Wolff - "there's so much time to be thinking of this and that as well as just listening"
Barrett & Dench (Elision Ensemble)
Mendelssohns F & F string quartets (Asasello Quartet)
Ginastera: Estancia, Panambi, etc (Lyon National Orchestra/Robertson, Moretti)
Lutoslawski Orchestral Works (Double Concerto, Chain 1 etc)
Haydn's Stabat Mater etc
Charles Ives – Songs - 4 (Naxos American Classics)
January 2009
DVDs
Dove Adventures of Pinocchio (Opera North)
Copland The City (Documentary Film)
Martha Argerich in Mozart Live at Tokyo
CDs
Scelsi Preludi Serie I - IV (Alessandra Ammara, piano)
Wellesz Symphonies complete (Rabl/Vienna RSO)
Scriabin (Sofronitsky live recital 1960)
George Crumb American Songbooks II & IV
Szymanowski piano music (Pontinen)
Villa-Lobos Choros (Bis, Vol 3)
Florent Schmitt Piano Quintet
Mozart Piano Sonatas (Linda Nicholson, fortepiano)
Rehnqvist To the Angel with the Fiery Hands
Torelli Concertos Op 6;
Strauss Ein Heldenleben;
James:Rhodes debut (Signum)
Thomas Liljeholm Portrait
Maurice Karkoff piano music
Gunnar Bucht chamber music
Ockeghem & Estonian Sacred Music
Purcell Dido & Aeneas (Connolly & OAE)
