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CD & DVD reviews 2012
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May
BOOK REVIEW
THE STORY OF NAXOS Nicolas Soames
DVDs
Triangle of the Squinches & Scheherazade (Alonzo King Lines Ballet)
Mozart's last piano concertos (Barenboim & Berlin PO)
CDs
Pavel Fischer and Iva Bittová - string quartets
Brahms Quintets arr. Karttunen etc
Ed Hughes (Chamber Concerto; Sextet; Orchids; A Buried Flame etc)
Gál piano duos (Goldstone & Clemmow)
New Venetian Coronation (McCreech & Gabrieli Consort)
Gál & Elgar Cello Concertos (Meneses Northern Sinfonia/Cruz)
MOZART, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS Violin Sonatas (Campoli & Katin)
de Boeck - piano works
Brahms, Mendelssohn Clarinet Sonatas (Emma Johnson with John Lenehan)
Bowerman: songs & chamber music
Concert at the Court of Frederick the Great (Jana Semerádová, baroque flute)
Byrd Great Service (Musica Contexta)
Tchaikovsky Transcriptions (Anthony Goldstone, piano)
Gerald Barry The Importance of being Earnest - (Radio 3 broadcast)
April
DVDs
Menahem Pressler in Paris
Cheung, Farias, Sakuma, Zhang [Luxembourg Sinfonietta/Wengler]
Bruckner 5 - Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
CDs
Robert Keeley Portrait
Hindemith, Schulhoff, Ammann etc - Amar Quartett of Switzerland
March
DVDs
Wagner's Die Meistersinger in Nuremberg
Quartet Choreography Stravinsky, Lutoslawsk, Ligeti & Finnissy (Kreutzer Quartet)
Bach/Hekkama Goldberg Variations (Calefax Reed Quintet)
CDs
Langgaard String Quartets Vol 1 (Nightingale String Quartet)
Meyer String Quartets 9, 11 and 12 (Wieniawsky Quartet)
Shostakovich String Quartets Nos 1-4 Prokofev String Quartet No 2 [Pacifica Quartet]
Hans Gál Symphonies 3 & 4 (Orchestra of the Swan/Woods)
English Recorder Concertos (Michala Petri & Hong KongCCO/Jean Thorel)
Henry Butler Divisions upon a Ground - Roberto Gini & colleagues
Couperin Concerts Royales - Indermuhle, oboe etc
Ysaye Sonata no 2 + 19 C violin favourites (Turku)
Bax, Debussy, Ravel, Mathias (DEBUSSY ENSEMBLE)
Dvorak, Martinu, Shostakovich etc (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Kubelík & Neumann)
Beethoven Violin Sonatas (Josef Suk and Jan Panenka)
Jonathan Harvey Wagner Dream
Erik Chisholm: Piano Concertos 'Pìobaireachd' & 'Hindustani'
Schubert Piano Trios complete (Trio Jean Paul)
Hauer Etudes Op 22 (Steffen Schleiermacher, piano)
Vivaldi Concertos & Handel Sonatas (Piers Adams - recorders)
Bach flute works (Pailthorpe)
CHAMBER VESPERS (The Gonzaga Band)
Berio Realisations (Bergen PO/Gardner)
Katsaris plays Chopin favourites and rarities
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Ticciati)
Schubert Rosamunde & Death & the Maiden (Wihan Quartet)
Buxtehude Trio Sonatas, Op.2 (Purcell Quartet)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet (Stuttgart concert, 1969)
February
CDs
Britten, Schumann & Shostakovich (Krzystof Chorzelski viola & Katya Apekisheva piano)
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Works (London Conchord Ensemble)
Poulenc vocal music (Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Stephen Layton)
Clara Rodríguez plays Federico Ruiz
11 American Premieres (Mimi Stillman flute, Charles Abramovic piano)
Adams Harmonielehre; Short Ride (San Francisco Symphony/M Tilson Thomas)
Clarinet Sonatas (Michael Collins)
Fasch, Heinichen, Handel, Telemann, Pisendel (Internatonal Baroque Players/Johannes Pramsohler)
Mompou Piano Music Vol 2 (Martin Jones)
Brahms Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied, Gesang der Parzen (Philippe Herreweghe)
Brahms/Swensen Sinfonia in B (Trio Op 8 1853 - Malmö Opera Orchestra/Swensen)
Judith Bingham 'The Everlasting Crown' (Stephen Farr, organ)
Boulez: Mémoriale & Dérives 1 & 2 (Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain)
Haydn à l'anglaise (Cafe Mozart with Emma Kirkby etc)
Dvořák The Jakobín
Swedish String Trios (ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen & Dan Laurin, recorder)
Bach Flute works (Pailthorpe)
January
DVDs
Cavalli: La virtù de’ strali d’Amore
Subotnick: Electronic Works, Vol. 3
Liszt: Piano Concertos (Barenboim & Boulez)
CDs
Thoresen HIMMELKVAD (Nordic Voices & Berit Opheim Versto)
HAYDN: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volumes 2 & 3 (Geoffrey Lancaster, fortepiano)
Handel in Ireland (Bridget Cunningham, harpsichord)
Brahms, Chopin, Schubert & Schumann rarities (Ian Holtham piano)
Katsaris plays Chopin Live
Strauss family etc (Old Vienna Strauss Ensemble /Kulling)
Britten & Shostakovich (Moser, cello, & Cologne WGRSO/Inkinen)
Brahms, Bruckner, Byrd, Reger, Tippett etc (VOCES8)
Daryl Runswick Scafra (Alexander Szram - piano)
Joplin/Benjamin Treemonisha
Pritsker William James's Varieties of Religious Experience
Patricia Morehead: "Good News" compilation
Philidor, Fasch, Rebel, Telemann etc (Denner Ensemble)
Frantisek Benda violin sonatas
Gene Gutche Piano Music (Matthew McCright)
Krystof Maratka Chamber Works
Artur Schnabel Chamber Music
French Baroque Music (Trio Settecento)
Jane O’Leary portrait CD
Recorder Music for the Queen of Scots (The Flautadors)
Cage Works for Percussion
Bliss, Britten etc (Barbirolli Quartet)
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