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Rhapsody in Blue – Grosvenor and Kempf
6th Aug 2012by Chris O'Reilly
Two former BBC Young Musician of the Year prize-winners record Gershwin’s best-known work – Kempf as part of an all-Gershwin programme, Grosvenor alongside Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2. -
Hans Rott’s First Symphony
30th Jul 2012by Katherine Cooper
Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra make a great case for the sole symphony by a composer who was described by his friend Gustav Mahler as ‘the founder of the new symphony as I understand it.’ -
L’Olimpiade: The Opera
23rd Jul 2012by Katherine Cooper
The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello. -
Holst and Delius on Naxos
16th Jul 2012by Chris O'Reilly
JoAnn Falletta conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Holst’s Cotswolds Symphony, and David Hill directs Delius’s Nietzsche-inspired Mass for Life with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. -
Richard Strauss round-up
9th Jul 2012by James Longstaffe
Elektra from Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra, Die Frau ohne Schatten from the 2011 Salzburg Festival, and the Four Last Songs from Anne Schwanewilms. -
New Shostakovich discovery - Orango
2nd Jul 2012by Katherine Cooper
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the world premiere recording of an embryonic opera which Shostakovivch abandoned partway through the Prologue, fleshed out and orchestrated here by Gerard McBurney. -
Rachel Podger on La cetra
30th Jun 2012by Chris O'Reilly
Chris visits the baroque violinist to discuss her new recording of Vivaldi's twelve concerti Op. 9, recorded with Holland Baroque and released on Channel Classics earlier this month. -
Vivaldi from Rachel Podger
25th Jun 2012by Chris O'Reilly
Following her Gramophone Award-winning recording of La stravaganza in 2003, the British baroque violinist tackles La cetra with Holland Baroque Society. -
Two terrific Italian Renaissance reconstructions
18th Jun 2012by Katherine Cooper
A new Venetian Coronation from Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, and a reconstruction of a typical Italian Vespers programme from circa 1612 from Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini. -
Shostakovich Symphonies from Petrenko and the RLPO
11th Jun 2012by Chris O'Reilly
The seventh instalment of the Russian conductor’s acclaimed Shostakovich cycle finds his Liverpool orchestra on top form in the Second and Fifteenth Symphonies. -
Bach's St Matthew Passion
4th Jun 2012by Katherine Cooper
Peter Sellars’s ‘ritualization’ of the work with Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker packs a powerful punch, thanks in no small part to Mark Padmore’s harrowing central performance as the Evangelist.Featured product
Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Christian Gerhaher (Jesus), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass) Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
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Bruckner Symphonies from Rattle and Barenboim
28th May 2012by James Longstaffe
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Seventh Symphony, whilst Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker tackle the Ninth. -
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: The Great EMI Recordings
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Hertha Klunst (piano), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano), Aribert Reimann (piano), Hermann Reutter (piano), Hartmut Holl (piano) New Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, George Szell
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Handel in England
14th May 2012by Katherine Cooper
The Edinburgh-based Dunedin Consort record Esther, Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company make a fine case for the incidental music for Smollett’s Alceste, and a legendary Glyndebourne Theodora makes its first appearance on CD.Featured product
Handel: Esther
Susan Hamilton (Esther), Nicholas Mulroy (Mordecai), Matthew Brook (Haman), Thomas Hobbs (1st Israelite), Robin Blaze (Priest), James Gilchrist (Habdonah / Assuerus) & Electra Lochhead (Israelite Boy), Nicholas Wearne (organ continuo) Dunedin Consort, John Butt
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Britten: War Requiem
7th May 2012by James Longstaffe
Gianandrea Noseda leads an Italianate performance of Britten’s great depiction of ‘the pity of war’, with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and soloists Sabina Cvilak, Ian Bostridge and Simon Keenlyside. -
Hamilton Harty’s Chamber Music
30th Apr 2012by Chris O'Reilly
The Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane bring out all the charm and flamboyance of the Irish composer’s two string quartets and piano quintet, dating from the early 1900s and composed shortly after Harty relocated to London. -
Kathleen Ferrier
23rd Apr 2012by Katherine Cooper
On the centenary of Ferrier’s birth, Katherine pays to tribute to the great Lancashire contralto and explores her legacy on disc via two comprehensive commemorative sets from Decca and EMI, which includes folksongs, Bach and Mahler.Featured product
Kathleen Ferrier: The Complete EMI Recordings
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (Orfeo), Greet Koeman (Euridice), Nel Duval (Amore) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Chorus & Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera, Bruno Walter, Herbert von Karajan, Charles Bruck
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Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique from Ticciati and the SCO
16th Apr 2012by James Longstaffe
Now several years into his tenure as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the young British conductor presides over a ‘deliriously orgiastic’ account of Berlioz’s ‘episodes in the life of an artist’. -
New and forthcoming Opera DVDs
9th Apr 2012by Katherine Cooper
Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur from Covent Garden, Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau and Joyce DiDonato in Rossini's Le Comte Ory from the Metropolitan Opera.Featured product
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
Angela Gheorghiu (Adriana), Jonas Kaufmann (Maurizio), Olga Borodina (La principessa di Bouillon), Alessandro Corbelli (Michonnet), David Soar (Quinault), Iain Paton (Poisson), Janis Kelly (Mademoiselle Jouvenot), Sarah Castle (Mademoiselle Dangeville), Maurizio Muraro (Principe di Bouillon), Bonaventura Bottone (Abbé de Chazeuil) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
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Claude Debussy
2nd Apr 2012by James Longstaffe
James explores three collections marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, with highlights including Boulez’s Pélleas et Mélisande, Michael Tilson Thomas’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s Préludes.Featured product
The Debussy Edition
Franklin Cohen (clarinet), Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Vera Badings (harp), Krystian Zimerman (piano), Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Zoltan Kocsis (piano), Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos), Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria-Joao Pires (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Wolfgang Schulz (flute), Véronique Dietschy (soprano), Philippe Cassard (piano), Emmanuel Strosser (piano), Maria Ewing, François Le Roux (Pelléas), Christa Ludwig (Genevieve), José van Dam (Golaud), Jean-Phillipe Courtis (Arkel), Patrizia Pac (Yniold), Rudolf Mazzola (Docteur), Suzanne Danco (soprano), Marie-Lise de Montmollin (mezzo), Nancy Wough (alto) The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Melos Quartet, Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Monteverdi Choir, Union Chorale de La Tour-de-Peilz, Pierre Boulez, Alexander Gibson, Bernard Haitink, Eduard van Beinum, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, John Eliot Gardiner, Ernst Ansermet
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