Onyx
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Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make a convincing case for this sometimes disorientating piece [Suite No. 1], with plenty of drive and contrast, plus consistently well-defined... —
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Four Serious Songs
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
One of the most enjoyable aspects is that the pair are not above sometimes letting the music’s emotions run away with them...Overall, these are taut, intelligent performances from two artists... —
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Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are fully attuned to the more percussive aspects of Rachmaninov’s writing. In the outer sections of the f inal dance, they batter the listener with high voltage dynamically... —
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
and works by Debussy and Rachmaninov
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Vasily Petrenko
This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing,... —
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Ehnes and his well-upholstered Sidney strings tend to play the notes rather than tell the story in a reading that, for all its elegance, is more faithful to the letter than the spirit of the... —
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 8
Augustin Dumay (violin, conductor), Augustin Dumay, Miguela da Silva, Svetlin Roussev, Henri Demarquette, Marie Chilemme, Aurelien Pascal (sextet)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Kansai Philharmonic
The familiar warmth is still there, but now there's a much firmer sense of disciplined purposefulness, and barely a rubato in sight. Whatever your opinions on the morality of style, there's... —
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the boisterously confident Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic cuts another lively swathe through colourful 20th-century repertoire...[In the Bartok] The Turkish players and their Viennese conductor... —
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Jewish Vienna
Zemlinsky, Korngold, Mahler, Winter, Grünfeld
Chen Reiss (soprano), Daniel Grossmann, Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich
Chen Reiss delivers charmingly charismatic performances. —
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21, Sonata K330, Variations in C on ‘Lison dormait’ & Fantasy K475
Yeol Eum Son (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
It finds [Marriner] and the ever-faithful Academy of St Martin in the Fields doing what they did best: Mozart in elegant, unpretentious style, with great attention to detail that never unbalances... —
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Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Piano Trio No. 1
Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky & Itamar Golan
