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December 2011
DVDs
Schoenberg: Von Heute Auf Morgen (DVD premiere at Venice)
Galuppi Inimico delle donne (Opera de Wallonie, Liège)
Verdi La Forza del Destino (Vienna State Opera/Mehta)
Haydn Sonatas - Tom Beghin (Musical Pointers Recording of the Year)
Van AA Up Close (Sol Gabetta etc)
CDs
Berlioz Requiem - Paul McCreech
Bach, Britten & Ligeti (Perényi, solo cello)
Gubaidulina Canticle of the Sun etc (Alstaedt, Kremer etc)
Koechlin & Pärt - Ralph van Raat, piano (M P Contemporary Music Pianist of the Year)
Koechlin Organ, Piano and String Quartets
de Boeck Piano Concerto etc
Bach and Sons – Clavichord and Flute
Sowerby The Canticle of the Sun
Obituary: Bob Briggs
Ned Rorem Chamber Music with Flute
Rameau Keyboard Suites (Jill Crossland - piano)
Weingartner Quartets nos 2 & 4 (Sarastro Quartet)
Feldman Orchestral & Sciarrino Violin solo
Debussy, Fauré & Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi (Susanna Phillips & Myra Huang)
Fred Lerdahl Three String Quartets (Daedalus Quartet)
Haydn - Complete Works for Solo Keyboard (Tom Beghin) (M P Recording of the Year)
Roussel The Spider's Banquet & Padmâvatî (RSNO/Deneve)
November 2011
DVDs
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Gilbert & NYPO) In Remembrance and Renewal – The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Brahms, Meyerbeer, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky etc (Royal Ballet Ashton Triple Bill)
Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (Ottavio Dantone in Jesi)
Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress (Glyndebourne, 2010)
Ravel, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich (Martha Argerich at Nobel Prize Concert)
CDs
Bach Magnificat & Stravinsky Mass (English Bach Festival Choir/Leonard Bernstein)
Contemporary Oboe Music (James Turnbull)
New music for for clarinet & basset clarinet (Mark Simpson)
Stenhammar: Quartets Nos. 3-6 (Oslo String Quartet)
Peter Ruzicka Orchestral Works Vol 1
Poulenc & Wolf Songs (Signum & Stone)
Saint-Saens string quartets (Fine Arts Quartet)
Chou Wen-Chung Chamber Music (String Quartets & Double Sextet)
Liszt Sonata etc (Hamelin)
Hyperion short reviews Nov 2011
Recorder & Koto; Choir & Recorder (Michala Petri)
Hindemith, Messiaen, Rubbra etc (Alison Teale, Cor Anglais)
Janacek Glagolitic Mass & Sinfonietta Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Wit
Honegger & Bach (Karajan in Rome)
Accordion arrangements & transcriptions (Mie Miki)
von Bulow Ballade & Carnevale di Milano (Mark Anderson, piano)
Elizabeth Maconchy's Orchestral Music
October 2011
DVDs
Capella Savaria Baroque Image
Mahler & Strauss
Coppelia (Delibes) - DVDs from Paris & Lyon
Meyerbeer, Stravinsky etc [Fredeick Ashton: Triple Bill]
CDs
Kodály, Ysaÿe, Cassadó & Mayuzumi (Francis Gouton, solo cello)
Music for Contemporary Flute by Greek composers (Katrin Zenz)
Polish Clarinet & Flute recitals ( Dawid Jarzynski & Grzegorz Olkiewicz)
Enescu, Bruch & Weingartner (Octuor de France)
Vivaldi 12 Violin Concertos and 14 Bassoon Concertos
Bach Mass in B minor (Yorkshire Bach Choir & Baroque Soloists/Peter Seymour)
Philidor Sancho Pança (Opera Lafayette)
Capella Savaria Vivaldi to Beethoven
Reich, Crumb & Barber (Quatuor Diotima)
Mozart: Piano Concertos 24 & 25 (Ronald Brautigam)
Beethoven Op 18 (Budapest Quartet)
Reto Bieri - new music for solo clarinet
Haskell Small Lullaby of War (Soheil Nasseri piano)
Boris Yoffe - Rosamunde Quartet & The Hilliard Ensemble
Richard Ayres Portrait (musikFabrik)
English Song - Pears & Britten
Ursula Mamlok chamber music
September 2011
DVDs
Cyprien Katsaris at Shanghai
Weinberg The Passenger & Symphonies 6 & 17
Cameron Carpenter organ
Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
Donizetti Marino Faliero at Bergamo
Three opera DVDs
CDs
Beethoven : Complete Music for Piano Trio (The Florestan Trio)
Mussorgsky, Russian Piano Music vol. 8 (Anthony Goldstone)
Howells, Patterson & Vaughan Williams Oboe Concertos (Emily Pailthorpe/ECO/Wallfisch)
Cyprien Katsaris at Schubertiade Festival in Austria
Cameron Carpenter organ
Bach: Goldberg Variations - Daniel Sullivan organ
Bach Trauer Musik (Taverner Players/Parrott)
Porpora cantatas (Iestin Davies)
Mahler 9th (LSO/Gergiev)
Toshio Hosokawa Landscapes with Mayumi Miyata, shô
and Naxi Dongjing Music
Malcolm Arnold Cello Concerto / Symphony for Strings / Recorders Fantasy etc
Beethoven, Bruch & Spohr - Jascha Heifetz (violin) with orchestras
Mendelssohn & Franck String Quartets (Carducci Quartet)
Parry: Songs of Farewell (Tenebrae/Nigel Short)
Vaughan Williams The Wasps and Choral Music (Hallé/Elder & Laudibus/Brewer)
Auerbach, Garrop, Higdon, Schwendinger, Read Thomas, Tower - Piano Trios
Olofsson, Parmerud, Larsson & Nilsson - Swedish String Quintets & Sextets
Veress String Trio & Quartets (Endemble des Equilibres)
Josquin des Prés Masses Vol 5 (The Tallis Scholars)
'modified' bassoonist Matthias Kronsteiner
Schumann String Quartets (Doric Quartet)
Arrangements for Bassoon - Karen Geoghegan
Arvo Pärt: Sonatinas; Partita; LamenTate [Ralph van Raat, NRCP/Falletta]
Britten songs (Nicholas Phan)
August 2011
DVDs
Xenakis Complete String Quartets - Jack Quartet
Janacek: Jenufa (Madrid 2009)
CDs
Mozart - Complete Wind Concertos on period instruments
Nordic composers (Duo Gelland Vol. 4)
Xenakis Alpha & Omega compilation
Michael Levinas, pianist & composer - Portrait CD box
Bach to Webern (Roman Totenberg, violin)
Bach: Mass in B minor (Yorkshire Bach Choir & Baroque Soloists/Peter Seymour)
Boismortier bassoon sonatas
English organ voluntaries, LISZT & REUBKE (Robert Costin, organ)
Britten A Birthday Hansel / Who are these Children? (Wakeford, Wilde & Norris)
Matsumura Symphonies (RTE National Symphony/Yuasa)
GÁL Symphony No. 2; SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 (Northern Sinfonia / Zehetmair)
Sculthorpe String Quartets Vol 1 (Goldner Quartet)
Trandafilovski Chamber Music
Chopin and Mendelssohn (Istomin & Sofronitsky - Cello and Fortepiano)
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet excerpts (Matthew Jones, viola)
Holbrooke: Violin Concerto
Nystroem Sinfonia del mare / Sinfonia breve (Malmo Symphony/Konig)
Koppel Concertos (soloists with Aalborg SO/Aeschbacher)
Bach Flute Sonatas (Elizabeth Walker)
HODDINOTT: Song Cycles and Folksongs
Szymanowski, Schoeck & Webern (Carmina Quartet & Olaf Bär)
July 2011
DVDs
Ives & Mahler (Keeping the Score; MTT & San Francisco S O)
Mozart/Scholz The Great Mass (Leipzig Opera & Ballet)
Peter Sculthorpe - portrait DVD from the Verdehr Trio
Betsy Jolas & Phillipe Manoury (Verdehr Trio portraits)
Mozart Figaro (Claus Guth's production at Salzburg re-released)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Joshua Bell at Nobel Prize Concert 2010)
Verdi Aida & Puccini Turandot at the Met
CDs
Strauss Metamorphosen, Messiaen: 3 Petites liturgies, Schulhoff, Shostakovich etc [Edition Lockenhaus (Box Set)]
Kapustin, Farrenc, Piazzolla etc (Emanuel Ensemble)
Beethoven, Haydn, Krufft & Leidesdorf/Bellonci (Anneke Scott - natural horn & Kathryn Cok - fortepiano)
Mozart early concertos (Bilson & American Classical Orchestra/Crawford)
Havergal Brian - Gothic Symphony (Slovak Philharmonic//Lenard) & at 2011 Prom
Jan Sandström Orchestral Music cond. Christian Lindberg
Fagerlund orchestral music
Corigliano Winging It etc (Ursula Oppens piano)
Halffter String Quartets Vol.2 (Arditti Quartet)
Bach Goldberg Variations (Steven Devine - harpsichord)
Spanish delicias - Goldstone and Clemmow pianos
June 2011
DVDs
Bach, Brahms, Beethoven Variations (Barenboim, Bronfman, Schiff)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Salzburg Festival 2006)
Beethoven, Bizet, Shostakovich (Martha Argerich, Verbier Festival Orchestra/Takács-Nagy)
ALFRED BRENDEL Lectures (C major) and Teaching Kit Armstrong (Mark Kidel Film, 2010)
Tchaikovsky Pique Dame (Gran Teatre del Liceu)
Berlioz: Les Troyens ( Gergiev/La Fura dels Baus, Valencia)
Wagner Das Ring des Nibelung (Valencia)
CDs
Beethoven, Lefevre, Mozart (Jane Booth & John Irving)
Mozart Complete Piano Concertos (Viviana Sofronitzki, fortepiano)
Berio, Nordheim, Schnittke, Takahashi, Piazzolla etc (Ksenija Sidorova classical accordion)
Poulenc Complete Songs - Volume 2 (Martineau)
& boxed set (Poulenc mélodies, with Pascal Rogé)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad - Chamber Works
Chopin, Szymanowski and Maciejewski,
Martinu;
Moss, Gabrys, Cage, Grisey, Scelsi, Xenakis etc (DUX)
Ed Bennett - Portrait disc
Osborne The Birth of Naciketas & Korde Nada-Ananda (Simon Thacker guitar and ensemble)
Heinz Holliger - oboist & composer
Saxton The Wandering Jew
Ruders Piano Concerto No. 2; Bel Canto; Serenade
The Fibonacci Sequence - portrait CDs
May 2011
DVDs
Dvorak, Franck, Shchedrin & Shostakovich (Argerich & Maisky at Lucerne)
Mahler Xth Adagio & Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra)
Britten Billy Budd (Glyndebourne 2010)
Bottestini: Ero & Leandro
Rautavaara Aleksis Kivi
CDs
Tansy Davies Troubairitz
Rachmaninoff - Preludes and Corelli Variations (Primakov)
Rachmaninov - Alessio Bax
Arlene Sierra Vol. 1 (Ensemble & solo piano music)
Dodgson & Kodaly (guitar and cello music)
Eichberg, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Ruders (Horn Trios)
Poulenc (Songmakers' Almanac)
Harrison Birtwistle later orchestral works - Owen Slade, tuba & The Hallé / R Wigglesworth
Bartok, Brahms, Debussy, Janacek, Poulenc (Julius Drake, piano)
Stanford Organ Music (Tom Winpenny)
Telemann - Chamber Cantatas & Trio Sonatas - Musica Pacifica
F Mancini & A Scarlatti - Musica Pacifica
Bach/Linseberg Organ Trio Sonatas (Musica Pacifica)
Schubert & Tchaikovsky - Kopelman String Quartet
Graham Waterhouse - Chamber Music
Scelsi for Viola & Double Bass
MOZART Sonatas, Fantasies & Variations, Vol 2 (Kristian Bezuidenhout - fortepiano)
Mahler, Stravinsky, Webern (Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra / Boulez)
Weinberg Songs Vol 1 (Toccata)
Ginastera: Cello Concertos
Contemporary British Organ Music - Volumes 1 & 2 (Michael Bonaventure)
RAMEY Piano Music - Vol Two: Diversions, Epigrams, etc - Mirian Conti
BACEVICIUS Poème électrique, Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphonies Nos.2 & 6
T Bloch - Mass etc
April 2011
DVDs
Wagner DIE FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (Netherlands Opera)
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten (Bayerische Staatsoper/Sawallisch/Ichikawa)
CDs
Byrd, Telemann & British baroque/traditional music
Polish cutting edge (Kwartluaium)
Ivan Fedele (complete works for piano - Ciro Longobardi)
Charles Ives/Johnny Reinhard The Universe Symphony
Rachmaninov Paganini Rhapsody & 2nd Concerto (Yuja Wang & MahlerCO/Abbado)
Gubaidulina, Medtner, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov (Anna Vinnitskaya & Alexandra Silocea debuts)
Lei Lang Portrait 2 (Saxophone Quartet, Harp Concerto etc)
Pavel Zemek Novak - 24 Preludes and Fugues (William Howard - piano)
Giacomo Orefice: Chopin - opera in four acts
Judith Bingham chamber works
Friedrich Goldmann - Late Works
Brahms Songs Complete - Vol. 2 Christine Schafer
Thea Musgrave opera for radio An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Xenakis string quartets & Kurtág music for viola solo
Ives/Brant A Concord Symphony
Rachmaninov & Strauss (Accentus & Eric Ericson Chamber Choir / Equilbey)
Francesco Hoch: Opera The Magic Ring and Grammont Portrait
Telemann X 2 (Ensemble Meridiana & Hamburger Ratmusik)
March 2011
DVDs
Lauro Rossi Cleopatra (Sferisterio Opera Festival)
MAHLER
Symphony No. 9 (Lucerne/Abbado)
Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky (Simon Bolivar Orch/Abbado)
The Endellion String Quartet Play Beethoven (Seventh Art Productions)
CDs
SUK - Asrael (Czech PO/MacKerras)
Harvey & Manoury - Choral Music
Liszt, Reger & Strauss (Hamelin)
Buxtehude Complete Organ Works — Hans Davidsson
New Music for Flute - Richard Craig
De Pablo/Donatoni/Marco/Gubaidulina (Grupo Sax-Ensemble; various groups/Encinar)
Francesco Hoch
Bartók, Scelsi, Skalkottas etc (Violin/Viola Duos)
Schoenberg Webern Schnittke String Trios (Goeyvaerts String Trio)
Beethoven & Mozart - Lubimov & Bezuidenhout
Bach - Christmas, Easter & Ascension Oratorios
Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Hindemith, Prokofiev (Calefax's Music Factory)
Baldassare, Croft, Hertel, Paradies, Pepusch, Reichenauer & Berlin (Charivari Agréable)
Peter Warlock - collection of 78s refurbished on 2 CDs
Saint-Saëns Chamber Music (Croshaw & Shillito)
Philippe Manoury (Accentus/Laurence Equilbey)
Romantic Trumpet (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)
Scelsi Trilogia: The Three Ages of Man
February 2011
DVDs
Strauss Elektra - Salzburg Festival
Rameau Operas (Christie etc - boxed bargain set)
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (Ruhr Triennale)
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique X 2 (Berlin P O/Janssons & Philharmonia/Salonen)
Mahler Ninth [Berlin P O/Barenboim]
Verdehr Trio - 3 DVDs
Beethoven: Missa solemnis (Dresden/Thielemann)
CDs
Haydn: Complete Early Divertimenti [Standage & Haydn Sinfonietta Wien/Huss]
The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 1 (Signum)
Ravel & Weber solo piano music (Osborne & Ohlssohn)
Rodolfo Halffter Piano Sonatas (Maria Elena Barrientos)
RUBBRA String Quartets Nos.1, 3 & 4
HK Gruber Concertos for Trumpet & Violin
Gabriel Prokofiev etc (New Noise, Powerplant & The Smith Quartet)
The Spirits of England and France - V (Gothic Voices/Christopher Page)
Bach Goldberg Variations (Colin Booth, harpsichord)
Bach Art of Fugue (Calefax Reed Quintet)
Palestrina: Missa Aeterna (Westminster Cathedral Choir)
Vivaldi fioritura - Opera arias and motet (Julia Kogan coloratura soprano & Chamber Orchestra Kremlin)
Chopin: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Chamber Music versions)
Genzmer violin/piano music
Fauré, Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Honegger & Vuillermoz (Karina Gauvin & Marc-André Hamelin)
Bacewicz Piano Quintets & 2nd Sonata
Frescobaldi X 3 - (Booth, Stembridge & Lester, harpsichords)
Monteverdi Vespers (OAE/Howarth)
Fauré, Franck and Pierné (Robert Langevin - flute)
Holst The Planets (York 2 piano duo)
January 2011
DVDs
Monteverdi L'Orfeo from La Scala, Milan (Wilson/Alessandrini)
CDs
The World of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (Ars Nova Copenhagen/ Hillier)
Beethoven, Mendelssohn & Weber (Van Swieten Society, Bart van Oost)
Chopin Resonances (Kevin Kenner, piano)
Chopin 24 Preludes (Daniel Grimwood - Erard piano)
Rachmaninov 2nd Sonata etc (Filsell & Vinnitskaya)
Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Schütz etc (Adam Woolf, tenor sackbut)
Scelsi Piano Works 1 (Louise Bissette)
Hindemith Viola Concertos (Lawrence Power &
BBC SSO/David Atherton)
Gotskosik, Franke, Ramström and Dahlgren (Duo Gelland - Violin Duos Volume 6)
Schulhoff Violin Sonatas
Swedish Concerts in London
Mozart: Une Soiree chez les Jacquin (Ensemble 415/Thomé/Schoonerwoerd/ Piau etc)
Bach Solo Suites & Sonatas X 2 (Rachel Podger & Pavlo Beznosiuk, baroque violins)
Conti, Krumpholz & Zumsteeg (Concertos from Rzeszów)
Allegri, Palestrina etc (The Cardinall's Musick)
Rogier Polychoral Works (Magnificat/Philip Cave)
Gareth Walters (Song-Cycles and Chamber Music)
Prokofiev & Ravel: Piano Concertos (Anna Vinnitskaya)
Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov (St Petersburg PO/Temirkanov) |
