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Mozart Symphonies from Mackerras - Volume 2
15th Mar 2010
The much-anticipated second volume of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart series with their conductor laureate features joyous and life-enhancing accounts of Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 and 46.
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Bernard Coutaz and Harmonia Mundi
8th Mar 2010
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Thomas Adès
1st Mar 2010
Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker (who commissioned the piece) in Tevot, premiered in 2007, and the composer himself conducts the violin concerto Concentric Paths, with its dedicatee Anthony Marwood as soloist.
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Strauss: Alpine Symphony
22nd Feb 2010
Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra celebrate the awe-inspiring force of nature and Strauss’s ability to depict that in his writing.
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Handel: Giulio Cesare and the Brockes Passion
15th Feb 2010
A stylish account of Handel’s best-known opera from the young Greek conductor George Petrou (with Swedish mezzo Kristina Hammarström in the title-role), and a ‘superbly played and sung’ reading of an early rarity from Peter Neumann.
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Kristina Hammarström (Cesare), Emanuela Galli (Cleopatra), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Sesto), Irini Karaianni (Cornelia), Romina Basso (Tolomeo), Tassis Christoyannis (Achilla), Petros Magoulas (Curio), Nikos Spanatis (Nireno) Orchestra of the Patras (period instruments), George Petrou
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Debussy and the Prix de Rome
8th Feb 2010
Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic explore the young Debussy’s numerous attempts to win the prestigious prize, including Le Gladiateur, Le printemps, La Damoiselle élue and L’Enfant prodigue.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards Shortlist
25th Jan 2010
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Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
18th Jan 2010
A ‘superb reading of Prokofiev's supreme masterpiece’ from Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra, two decades after the conductor’s landmark account of the piece with the Kirov Orchestra.
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Bach for Violin and Voice
11th Jan 2010
Hilary Hahn, Christine Schäfer and Matthias Goerne join forces with the Münchener Kammerorchester for arias from works including the St Matthew Passion, the Mass in B minor and numerous cantatas.
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A Ring cycle for the 21st Century
4th Jan 2010
La Fura del Baus brings Wagner’s eighteen-hour epic to life with striking choreography and special effects, and a superb cast including American soprano Jennifer Wilson as Brünnhilde and bass Matti Salminen as Fasolt, Hunding and Hagen.
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Thomas Tallis's Secret Garden
14th Dec 2009
Graham O’Reilly’s Ensemble européen William Byrd explore the Renaissance composer’s music for the English Chapel Royal, spanning the reigns of four different monarchs.
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El Sistema
7th Dec 2009
A life-affirming and moving documentary by Paul Smaczny charting the evolution of the Venezuelan music education programme which produced the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra.
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Christmas Releases
30th Nov 2009
Festive albums from Ex Cathedra, The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and the Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge.
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Two important Elgar rarities
9th Nov 2009
Sir Andrew Davis conducts The Crown of India with the BBC Philharmonic, and Roderick Williams and others explore The Fringes of the Fleet, a patriotic song-cycle setting texts by Rudyard Kipling.
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Cecilia Bartoli and the world of Castratos
26th Oct 2009
The intrepid Italian mezzo explores repertoire composed for Farinelli, Caffarelli and Senesino (including music by Porpora, Caldara, Vinci and Leo) with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
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Winterreise from Padmore and Lewis
19th Oct 2009
The British pianist and tenor launch a series of Schubert song-cycles with a spellbinding account of the late, great ‘Winter Journey’ which strikes Chris as ‘music-making of the absolute highest order’.
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Schubert: Winterreise D911
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano)
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Tchaikovsky's Moscow Cantata
12th Oct 2009
Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky orchestra in a punchy, exciting account of the 1883 work written in honour of the coronation of Tsar Alexander III, plus the 1812 Overture, and the ‘Danish Overture’, composed for Alexander’s marriage.
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The Quatuor Ebène and the Gramophone Awards
5th Oct 2009
The young French string quartet scoop the Record of the Year prize for their disc of Ravel, Debussy and Fauré on Erato, with Gerald Finley and Julius Drake, Stile Antico, Fretwork and Steven Osborne among the category-winners.
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Ravel, Debussy, Fauré - String Quartets
Quatuor Ebène
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Unknown Britten
28th Sep 2009
NMC Records release a collection of rediscovered works by the British composer, including a clarinet concerto commission by Benny Goodman, and three songs originally intended for Les Illuminations.
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Julia Fischer plays Schubert
14th Sep 2009
The German violinist and pianist Martin Helmchen convert Chris to the pleasures of Schubert’s violin sonatas in ‘by far the most convincing performances I’ve heard of these works’.
