Chandos
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Karin Egardt (oboe), Kevin Spagnolo (clarinet), Mikael Lindström (bassoon), Terése Larsson (horn), Swedish Chamber Orchestra
This latest set in a year that threatens a surfeit of Beethoven piano concerto releases gets better as it goes along...in the grandeur, sweep and spontaneity he brings to the opening movement... —
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Special offer. Gossec: Le Triomphe de la République
Salomé Haller (soprano), Antonella Balducci (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Claudio Danuser (baritone), Philippe Huttenlocher (bass) & Arnaud Marzorati (bass)
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano, Coro Calicantus & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Diego Fasolis and his performers deliver this extraordinary score with no hint of embarrassment at its pervasive simplicity in a brightly-hued recording. Choral vocal lines are mostly firm,... —
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These performances of his concertos are every bit as frisky and fun as the music itself. —
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Christopher Gunning - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 & Oboe Concerto
Verity Gunning (oboe)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Gunning
The piquant Concerto for oboe and strings, for me, takes the palm. Light on its feet, with some lovely moments for individual players in the first movement, it acquires a more ruminative, melancholy... —
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Imai's approach is slightly cool and measured, lacking the last degree of rhythmic excitement. But the lyrical passages are lovely. —
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Elgar: The Kingdom
Roderick Elms (organ), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Richard Hickox
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The Tannhauser excerpt...really begins to boil in the infamous ballet music, giving the sonorous RSNO brass something they can finally tuck into with relish —
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Smyth: Serenade in D & Concerto for violin, horn & orchestra
Sophie Langdon (violin), Richard Watkins (horn)
BBC Philharmonic, Odaline de la Martinez
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