Bach Collegium Japan Cantatas on BIS
[asa]B00L6GA5XE[/asa] Bach never wrote an opera. Yet his feeling for drama and the projection of human emotions is clear in so many of his vocal works. The first of two…
Ingolf Wunder’s Tchaikovsky & Chopin on Deutsche Grammophon
[asa]B00JX63L4Y[/asa] Virtuoso dash and daredevil virtuosity come leaping out of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 as soon as this performance at Russia’s most famous music festival gets under way. The…
Ingolf Wunder’s Tchaikovsky & Chopin on Deutsche Grammophon
[asa]B00JX63L4Y[/asa] Virtuoso dash and daredevil virtuosity come leaping out of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 as soon as this performance at Russia’s most famous music festival gets under way. The…
Netherlands Symphony Orchestra Plays Mendelssohn Symphony
[asa]B00AZGXTA2[/asa] Born into an artistically stimulating environment, Felix Mendelssohn, dead aged 38, might be considered forever youthful. His C minor Symphony, from 1824, is certainly that, a product of his…
Joseph Moog’s young Sonatas
[asa]B00JBJOVRE[/asa] The young German artist Joseph Moog has been causing something of a stir in pianistic circles, with an easy virtuosity and a propensity for unusual repertoire. Don’t be distracted…
A French Baroque Diva making of soprano Carolyn Sampson
[asa]B00JM29Q2K[/asa] She was Voltaire’s ‘adorable nightingale’ and inspired a generation of composers with her vocal beauty and virtuosity: Marie Fel was the diva of her day and the darling of…
Riccardo Chailly’s Midsummer Nights Dream on Decca
[asa]B00IFOTUW2[/asa] Under Chailly, the Leipzigers have truly reclaimed a composer whose statue was once disgracefully removed – no need to guess by whom – from outside the Gewandhaus. All is…
Walton’s First Symphony and Violin Concerto on Chandos
[asa]B00J9SEX6Q[/asa] The Recording of the Month in the current (July) issue of Gramophone is a pairing of William Walton’s Violin Concerto and First Symphony featuring violinist Tasmin Little with the…
Valery Gergiev’s Brahms German Requiem
[asa]B00JOMTV0U[/asa] Brahms won international fame with his German Requiem. The work contains stumbling blocks for performers, most of them attached to tempo choices and changes. Valery Gergiev’s ultimately frustrating interpretation,…
Valery Gergiev’s Brahms German Requiem
[asa]B00JOMTV0U[/asa] Brahms won international fame with his German Requiem. The work contains stumbling blocks for performers, most of them attached to tempo choices and changes. Valery Gergiev’s ultimately frustrating interpretation,…