Chandos
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Douglas allows the music room to breathe while rendering its structure with clear-sighted rigour…a marvellous account —
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Special offer. Puccini Passions
Mary Plazas (soprano), Cheryl Barker (soprano), Gregory Yurisich (baritone), Stuart Kale (tenor), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Jane Eaglen (soprano), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Peter Wedd (tenor), Peter Sidhom (bass), Dennis O'Neill (tenor), Jean Rigby (mezzo), Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Susan Patterson...
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Hasse - Sonatas and Trio Sonatas
Epoca Barocca - Alessandro Piqué (oboe), Christian Leitherer (chalumeau), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Margarete Adorf (violin), Ilze Grudule (cello), Christoph Lehmann (harpsichord/organ)
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Goossens - Orchestral Works Volume 1
Howard Shelley (piano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
The performances make a feisty and persuasive case for both works, with Howard Shelley savouring the incisive brilliance of the Concerto's solo part. And in his last recording before his death... —
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Punchy, in-your-face accounts, in turbo charged sound. —
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Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Choral Works
Julia Doyle (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Ashley Riches (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple
Temple really has the measure of this highoctane music, his approach confident yet persuasive, refined yet incisive. The chorus convey perfectly the textual inflections, with authentic German... —
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The works on this superlative new recording of the Complete Quartets date from 1960 to 2016, and some of his finest music is here. As the Silesian Quartet shows in their chronologically presented... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13; Arvo Part: de Profundis
Estonian National Male Choir, Albert Dohmen (baritone), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
John Storgårds has shown his affinity for the composer in every disc of this complete series of the Shostakovich symphonies (still in progress). Here, he does not strive after extremes or try... —
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With so many versions of the Symphony and the Symphonic Variations available, it's surprising that these two favourite orchestral works aren't coupled more often. Here Tortelier adds an attractive... —
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