CD & DVD reviews 2011
& CD & DVD reviews 2010
CD & DVD reviews from 2009
CD & DVD reviews from 2008
CD & DVD reviews from 2006 through 2007
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January 2011
DVDs
CDs
Scelsi Piano Works 1 (Louise Bissette)
December 2010
DVDs
John Cage etc The Art of the Toy Piano 2 [Margaret Leng Tan]
Mendelssohn/Balanchine A Midsummer Night's Dream
Prokofiev The Gambler (Staatsopern Berlin/Barenboim)
Janacek Glagolithic Mass & Taras Bulba (MACKERRAS - A Life with Czech Music)
CDs
Boesmans - Yvonne, Princesse de Bourgogne
Pacini: Il convitato di pietra (XXth Rossini in Wildbad festival 2008)
Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Schütz etc (Adam Woolf, tenor sackbut)
Schuchauer, Guzinger, Pezold, Ganspeck etc Schuchauer (Violas d'Amore)
Brahms, Clarke & Vieuxtemps Viola sonatas (Tabea Zimmermann)
Brahms Songs Series (Hyperion/Grahame Johnson)
Schubert Impromptus (Alexei Lubimov, fortepianos)
Schumann & Lachner Lieder (Mark Padmore & Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano)
Hermann Keller piano and violin music
Dvorak & Smetana; Janacek & Martinu (MACKERRAS - A Life with Czech Music)
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 (Fred Sherry Quartet)
Scelsi Quattro Pezzi, Uaxuctum, La nascita del Verbo [Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kalitzke/ Grohotolsk]
Tüür - orchestral music
William Ferris portrait concert
Arne Artaxerxes [Classical Opera Company]
Bach Motets (Voces8 & Senesino Players)
Britten, Elgar, Howells & Purcell (Temple Church Choir)
Britten, Dennis Brain & Peter Pears [Regis reissues]
Copland, Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein (Academy Symphonic Brass)
Hans Gal - Orchestral music (Northern Sinfonia/Kenneth Woods; A-B Vogel (Violin)
Wellesz - Choral music (Christ Church Cathedral Choir)
Thomas Bloch - Missa Cantate etc
Haydn: concertos for harpsichord & violin (Dantone etc)
Malipiero - Commedie goldoniane, Stradivario, La Cimarosiana, Gabrieliana
November 2010
DVDs
Ioan Holender's Farewell to Vienna Opera Gala (52 singers and 12 conductors)
Wagner - The Ring at Valencia (Highlights)
Bellini: I Puritani from Bologna (Juan Diego Flórez & Nino Machaidze/Michele Mariotti)
Brian Elias The Judas Tree - The Royal Ballet
Strauss Elektra (Thielemann /Wernicke Baden-Baden)
Cello Masterclass - Maria Kliegel
Bach & Pagannini (Viktor Nagy - viola)
CDs
Otte Book of Sounds (Ralph van Raat - piano)
Scelsi Piano Works 4 - Hispania & Suites Nos. 5 & 6
Castrucci and Geminiani (Pernille Petersen, recorder)
Lunar Saxophone Quartet and Peter Soderberg (lute)
Schubert: Winterreise (Peter Harvey - baritone & Gary Cooper - fortepiano)
Schumann Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (Florian Uhlig & Deutsche RPO/Poppen)
Bax & Bridge Piano Quintets
Brian & Malipiero Symphonies
Nielsen Symphonies BBCSSO/Vänskä
Honegger Violin Sonatas (Kayaleh & Stewart)
Busoni Piano Music – Vol 7 (Wolf Harden)
Giles Swayne (Stabat mater, The silent land etc)
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Philharmonia/Mackerras)
Novelties from Sweden (Kinga Prada & The Incredible RAA Band)
Grieg & Kabalevsky piano music (Regis re-issues)
French music (Regis, mostly reissues)
Duparc Mélodies (Mireille Delunsch etc)
Telemann Fantasias (Walker, Holliger & Brown)
Bach Concertos (London Conchord Ensemble/Florian Uhlig)
BACH Oboe Concertos (Alexei Ogrintchouk)
Bach - Christmas Oratorio (Leipzig Gewandhausorchester & Dresdner Kammerchor/Riccardo Chailly)
Giuliani; Bjuhr, Enström, Hjorth, Olofsson, Rapacki, Storm; Piazzolla (Guitar CDs)
Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 (Royal Liverpool Phil Orcg/Petrenko)
Grieg, Kabalevsky etc (Pletnev & Pizarro - Regis)
PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi (Gobbi, de los Angeles, Rome/Santini)
Chopin Sonata No 2; Mazurkas, Preludes etc (Pollini in Warsaw, 1960)
Callas in Seven Complete Operas
Guitars on CD (Lauri&Pascal)
Johann STRAUSS I (Old Vienna Strauss Ensemble/Kulling)
Kodaly, Catoire, Ravel Violin/Cello Duos (Turku & Yang)
MONTEUX & Boston Symphony Orchestra - Ten Concerts, 1958-59
October 2010
DVDs
Mendelssohn in Verbier (Yuja Wang (piano) & Verbier Festival Orchestra/Kurt Masur)
Eccles & Brunetti to Bartók and Hindemith (Vidor Nagy, viola - artist portrait)
Sallinen The Red Line (Finnish Opera)
CDs
Prima Voce Party (Nimbus 1992/2010)
String quartets - New Golden Age (Eyblers & Cambinis, Sona, Sonar & Pavel Haas etc)
Gloria Coates 9th String Quartet, solo violin sonata & Lyric Suite for piano trio
Eybler Quartets Op 1 (Eybler String Quartets)
Backofen & Mozart Quintets - Jane Booth (basset clarinet) & Eybler String Quartet
20th-C Chamber Music - Vienna Octet
Scelsi Orchestral Works & Canti del Capricorno (Izquierdo)
Zallman Variations, Piano Trio etc
ROCHBERG Caprice Variations (Eliot Fisk, guitar)
Ravel Piano Concertos; Miroirs (Aimard / Boulez)
Mozart, Schubert & Schumann's Carnaval (Rolf Plagge at Maulbronn Monastery)
Mozart, Rossini, Kreutzer & Crusellm (Karen Geoghegan (bassoon) BBCPO)
Roussel Symphonies complete (Denève)
Britten & Poston (NYCoS National Girls Choir)
Ries - Piano Concertos Vol 4 (Hinterhuber, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Grodd)
5 Variations (Andrew Rangell, piano)
Violin & Cornetto sonatas from 17th century Italy (Theresa Caudle & Canzona)
WOLF: Lieder (Fischer-Dieskau, Daniel Barenboim)
Zelenka: Missa votiva
Castello, Pichi and Vivaldi - Early Venetian Music
Ortiz, Ferrabosco, Telemann etc (Fernando Marin on Vihuela de arco, Lyra-viol)
September 2010
DVDs
Bach & Paganini (Vidor Nagy, Viola)
Tchaikovsky Cherevichki (ROH, Covent Garden)
Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (Dresden Opera/Colin Davis)
CDs
Harvey Speakings
Bartók Solo Piano Music and Piano Concertos
Brahms Complete Solo Piano Variations (Garrick Ohlsson)
XENAKIS, CLEMENTI, SCODANIBBIO etc [Mode Records Autumn 2010]
MOZART Sonatas Vol 1 (Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano)
Mozart Sonatas (Kristian Bezuidenhout, fortepiano and Petra Mullejans, violin)
Byrd: The Complete Keyboard Music (Davitt Moroney)
Jean-Baptiste Robin - organ music
Stockhausen Mantra [Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo]
Dvorak - Symphonies 7 & 8 [Philharmonia/Mackerras]
Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev etc (Barbara Nissman's Favourites Vol 5)
Hamelin: Études, 'Cathy's Variations' etc (Marc-André Hamelin)
Mussorgsky, Debussy & Liszt (Llyr Williams)
Nielsen Flute Concerto etc (Katherine Bryan)
Messiaen Visions de L’Amen & Debussy En blanc et noir (OPPENS & LOWENTHAL, pianos)
Strauss Ariadne on Naxos
Michael Berkeley Jane Eyre
Danish Violin Concertos Volume 5 (Emborg, Holmboe etc)
Korngold String Quartets (Doric String Quartet)
Mozart Duo Sonatas vol 3 (Duo Amade)
Lukas Foss compilation
Schumann Lieder complete (Graham Johnson and singers)
Beamish Concertos & 1st Symphony
Berkeley For you (Music Theatre Wales)
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Symph. 10 (Kožená Gerhaher Cleveland/Boulez)
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 & Symphony No.3 (Boulez & Tetzlaff)
Irish & Japanese piano music (Izumi Kimura)
White - Hymns, Psalms and Lamentations and Dialogue of Sorrow
August 2010
DVDs
Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion
CDs
Beethoven Hammerklavier sonata etc (Barbara Nissman "Recital Favourites Vols 3 & 4")
Brahms, Ravel, Scarlatti & Stravinsky (Yuja Wang, piano)
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas on Fortepianos (Malcolm Bilson etc)
Pawel Hendrich Chamber Works
Sibelius, Stravinsky & Ravel (Daedalus Quartet)
Chopin Chamber Works
Dvorak & Glass Quartets
Haglund Hymns to the Night
JULY 2010
DVDs
MOZART at Salzburg 1963-67 - Figaro, Zauberflöte & Entführung
Beethoven - Wihan Quartet
CDs
Jean-Luc Darbellay (Portrait CD)
Markevitch La Taille de l'Homme
Pierné Variations, Passacaille etc (Laurent Wagschal, piano)
Dallapiccola "Piano rarities" & Pieces for orchestra (Pietro Massa piano RSO Berlin/Hirsch)
Haydn "Sun Quartets" (Daedalus Quartet)
Piazzolla (flute/guitar duo)
Beethoven cello sonatas (Lesser & Paik)
Ireland - violin & cello sonatas (Gould Trio)
Chinese Recorder Concertos (Michala Petri)
Déodat de Séverac: Le Coeur du Moulin
Bach, Mozart & Schubert from Avie
Handel Concerti Grossi Op 6 (The Avison Ensemble)
WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Lott, Schreier & Johnson)
J L Emborg Violin Concerto (Kai Laursen)
Richard Jones: Sets of Lessons (Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord)
AVISON: HARPSICHORD SONATAS (GARY COOPER)
Szymanowski: Songs (Anna Mikolajczyk)
Martinu Chamber Music with Flute (Fenwick Smith)
Dvorak Op 34 & Op 105 (Wihan Quartet)
David Gorton Trajectories etc (Kreutzer Quartet)
Albeniz Iberia etc (Wulfin Lieske & Fabian Spindler, guitars)
DEBUSSY/MATTHEWS Preludes (Hallé/Elder)
Sciarrino/Ravel (Ciro Longobardi - piano)
Hummel, Killmayer, Meyer, Regner & Theodorakis (Julius Berger, solo cello)
Microtonal Music: Gems, Violist & Bassoonist
Swedish
concertos for
clarinet and
bassoon
Staffan Storm Piano works (Francisca Skoogh)
Pettersson: Concerto for String Orchestra No.3 Nordic Chamber Orchestra/ Lindberg
Beethoven Piano Trios (Beethoven Project Trio)
JUNE 2010
DVDs
Strauss J. & R. (Carlos Kleiber - Complete Opera DVDs)
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Met 1989 with Kathleen Battle)
Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne)
CDs
New Danish songs (Marianne Lund)
Krzystof Baculewski - orchestral works
Haydn Piano Trios Nos 22, 24, 25 & 26 - Trio Goya
Martinu - Cello Sonatas & Variations (Watkins & Watkins)
Biber, Bach, Telemann etc (Helene Plouffe, Viola d'Amore & colleagues)
French Sacred Music (Eton College Chapel Choir & David Goode)
Hans Gál Violin Concertos and Sonatas
Billy Neely (boy soprano)
Krzystof Meyer Canzona & Cello Sonatas
Dariusz Przybylski Works for Orchestra
Jonathan Harvey Speakings (BBCSSO/Volkov with soloists)
Flute O’Clock (Balińska and Liebchen)
Dale & Hurlstone: Piano Sonatas (Mark Bebbington)
MENDELSSOHN Songs & Duets Volume 5 (Asti, GSMD)
MAY 2010
DVDs
As you like it at Shakespeare's Globe
Penderecki conducts Penderecki (three concertos)
CDs
Tchaikovsky piano concertos (Stephen Hough)
Brahms Songs Volume One (Kirschlager & Johnson)
BRITTEN, PATTERSON, BYRNES, TAKEMITSU, YUN (Lavinia Meijer, harp)
Herzogenberg Piano Music (Goldstone and Clemmow)
Gernsheim Piano Quintets
Leighton Solo Piano Works [2] - Margaret Fingerhut
Bach/Rifkin Mass in B minor (John Butt/Dunedin Consort)
Britten and Ravel songs (Gerald Finley & Julius Drake)
Guerrero - Chamber Music
Alexander Goldenweiser (Jonathan Powell, piano)
Jadassohn Piano Trios (Syrius Trio)
Prior Concerto for piano, two violins and cello
(Zhang Xiao Ming, Michael Province, Simone Preston & Nathan Chan) Northern Sinfonia/Alexander Prior
Sinding - violin music (Kraggerud & Hadland)
FARKAS Wind Quintets
Monteverdi madrigals (I Fagiolini & Barokksoloistene)
Vivaldi concertos (recorder, bassoon etc)
Telemann solo cantatas
South American & Spanish Piano Music (Pizzaro, Rodriguez & early 20.C composer pianists)
Balkan Music for Piano, Flute & Guitar (Radmila Stojanović-Kiriluk & Cavatina Duo)
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Les Noces (Gergiev/Mariinsky)
Schnittke Discoveries (Alexander Ivashkin, cello, Bolshoi Soloists’ Ensemble etc)
Russian Violin Music (Deborah Marchetti & Vovka Ashkenazy)
Czerny Nocturnes (Isabella Oemichen)
Frescobaldi Vol. 1 (Richard Lester, harpsichord)
George Antheil Ballet mécanique (Rex Lawson,pianola, with six pianists & nine xylophonists etc)
Chopin Cello Sonatas (Raphael Wallfisch, cello & John York)
Thomas Larcher Böse Zellen; Still & Madhares
Dutilleux - music for piano(s) - Robert Levin
Mozart sonatas (Shumsky & Balsam)
Bach, Haydn & Schumann - Andras Schiff
Szymanowski String Quartets (Carmina Quartet)
Debussy Images (Markl)
April 2010
DVDs
Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare's Globe
CDs
Endymion "sound census"
Roxburgh Solos & Duets
Fribbins Chamber Music (Wallfisch & York, etc)
Tomoko Sugawara (kugo angular harp, with flute, bendir & darabukka)
Togni: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
Grand Tour of Italy, Spain and Germany (His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts)
Chopin, Dohnanyi & Weinberg (3 from Chandos, April 2010)
Spohr - music for violin & harp (Davide Monti & Maria Christina Cleary)
Bach complete Organ Works (Bowyer - mp3 Edition)
Bach Goldberg Variations (Matthew Halls)
Albéniz Iberia & Granados Goyescas (Artur Pizarro, piano)
Mozart Keyboard works Vol. 11 (Rampe - clavichord, fortepiano & harpsichord)
Frescobaldi Vol. 2 (Richard Lester, harpsichord)
Ravel, Lalo, Turina; Hans Gál; Paganinni & a different Vivaldi (Four for strings chamber music collectors)
Three Tall Poppies (Lumsdaine; Australian Violin Duo; Compass Tango)
David Matthews String quartets 4, 6 & 10 (Kreutzer Quartet)
Shchedrin Concertos for Orchestra (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits)
Frank Martin - Der Sturm, Monologues from Jedermann & Symphonie Concertante
Neapolitan Flute Concertos (Iparti & Auser Musici)
Elgar Symphonies and Froissart (Sir Andrew Davis)
March 2010
DVDs
Alice Sommer Herz (Christopher Nupen DVD)
Handel - Partenope (Decca DVDs, The Royal Danish Opera)
CDs
26 Danish Violin Concertos - Volume 4 (Kai Laursen)
Bacewicz Violin Concerto No. 3 & Karlowicz Tone Poem
Lennox Berkeley chamber music
Arnold Cooke Piano Sonatas & Chamber Music
Schulhof Quartets (Aviv Quartet)
Dvorak String Quartets Op 61 & 96 (Wihan Quartet)
Britten, Finzi & Delius Songs (Susan Gritton & BBCSO)
Reimann works for clarinet (Jörg Widmann)
Maderna Orchestral Works with flute (Frankfurt RSO/Tamayo)
Pachelbel, Krieger and Kerll (Charivari Agréable & The King's Singers)
Bassoon & Bassoonist (Judith Leclair & Johnny Reinhard)
Viola and Violist (Martin Outram & Anastasia Solberg)
American Festival of Microtonal Music: Ideas
Vivaldi No More Seasons (Kentros & Petersson)
Albinoni & Vivaldi; Chopin & Tchaikovsky; Stravinsky [Hyperion March 2010]
Bach & Beethoven (James Rhodes, piano)
Ferneyhough (Elision)
Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev & Mussorgsky (Ohlsson & Trpceski)
Roussel Symphony No. 4, Rapsodie flamande, Petite Suite, Concert pour petit orchestre, Sinfonietta for string orchestra (RSNO / Stéphane Denève)
Schoenberg: String Trio, Septet etc (Robert Craft series)
Dvorak Piano Quintets (Goldners & Piers Lane)
Arensky piano pieces (Goldstone)
Asheim Broken Line (Vertavo String Quartet)
FEBRUARY
DVDs
Rossini: L'Equivoco Stravagante
Rossini: La Cenerentola (Garanča, Brownlee etc Metropolitan Opera)
Verdi Falstaff (Richard Jones at Glyndebourne)
Jean Guillou The Revolt of the Organs
Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur (Jennifer Bate at Norwich Cathedral)
CDs
Shchedrin The Enchanted Wanderer
Shostakovich The Nose (Mariinsky/Gergiev)
Koechlin Songs (Leblanc & Sharon)
Bruckner Te Deum & Mass No. 1 (Corydon/Best)
Franck Piano Quintet & Violin Sonata (Schubert Ensemble)
Haydn Quartets Op 54 (Sacconi Quartet)
Sullivan Ivanhoe
Soviet Russian Viola Music (Igor Fedotov)
Rebikov (Anthony Goldstone, piano)
Lyapunov Sonata etc (Anthony Goldstone, piano)
Richard Ayres NONcertos (Timmermans/Blaauw/Frankfurt RSO etc)
ROSENMÜLLER German Sacred Concertos
Tobias Hume Ayres (Susanne Heinrich, viola da gamba)
JSB, Handel, Telemann, Torelli, Krol etc (Wolfgang Bauer Consort)
Mozart Symphonies 29 - 36 Scottish Chamber Orchestra/MacKerras
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead and The Rock (RLPO/Petrenko)
Katzer, Levy, Ligeti Neuwirth, Tüür & Xenakis (Sonic Art Saxquartett)
Ferguson (piano music etc)
Finnissy, Fox, Gorton etc (Christopher Redgate, Kreutzer Quartet etc)
Fox Catalogue irraisoné (Exaudi)
Wolf (Fischer-Dieskau and Barenboim)
Benjamin Piano Figures (George Benjamin - piano)
JSBach arr. Red Priest
Graham Fitkin (Music for 2 pianos & orchestra)
Fanny Mendelssohn piano music
JANUARY 2010
DVDs
Krenek opera Karl V
Krenek operetta Kehraus um St. Stephan
Feldman Trio (Takahashi, Sabat, Rohan de Saram)
The Rosamunde Quartet "Celibadache's Heritage"
Cavalli Ercole Amante
D'Albert Tiefland
Rigoletto The Film
CDs
Blomdahl, Elgh, Hedås etc (peärls before swïne)
Kurtag Hipartita etc (Hiromi Kikochi)
Hindemith solo viola sonatas (Lawrence Power)
Various composers - Jonathan Plowright's Chopin Homage
Praulinš, Einfelde, Sisask & Miškinis (Baltic choral music)
Rachmaninov and Blumenfeld sonatas (Daniel Grimwood)
Sessions & Shapey (David Holzman, piano)
Ravel, Resphigi & Granados Violin Sonatas
Holmboe music for violin and piano and "Key Masterpieces" (DaCapo)
Debussy, Frank Martin, Villa-Lobos & Poulenc (Sylvain Cambreling)
Alfred Hill String Quartets
Julia Rebekka Adler (viola recitals)
Haydn String Quartets Op. 1 (Auryn Quartet)
Brahms Quartets (Auryn Quartet)
Highlights of Queen Elizabeth Competition of Belgium for singers (2008)
Ned Rorem Songs (The Prince Consort)
Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto
