Hyperion
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Indy: Wallenstein and other orchestral works
Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
D'Indy's early three-part tone poem Wallenstein used to be fairly well known. A performance like this is likely to bring it back into circulation, full of vitality and warmth with bright brass... —
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Organ Fireworks X
Christopher Herrick (Letourneau organ in the Concert Hall of The Winspear Centre, Edmonton, Canada)
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 11
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano) with Katherine Broderick (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano), Adrian Thompson (tenor) & Stephan Loges (baritone)
A real disc of discovery: this is Schumann as he is seldom heard. In this final volume of his revelatory Songs of Robert Schumann series, Graham Johnson perceptively writes about, accompanies... —
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The Pizzetti demands something other than beauty in performance, and Shaham and Erez are uncompromising and abrasive with it. The Castelnuovo-Tedesco sounds gorgeous from start to finish. —
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Rossini - Soirées musicales
Miah Persson (soprano), Stella Doufexis (soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
There isn't a low point on the entire disc. Roger Vignoles plays with all his characteristic intelligence and subtlety. Miah Persson is enchanting in the opening La Promessa...Bruce Ford is... —
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Salve Regina
Sacred music by Monteverdi and his Venetian followers
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman
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you're unlikely to find more sympathetic and committed performances than these: Tanja Becker-Bender's phrasing of Respighi's long lines and her range and subtlety of colour give both Sonatas... —
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Constant Lambert's Tiresias was commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the subject had been preoccupying the composer for over 20 years. In the event, the ailing Lambert struggled... —
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With such strong, sympathetic playing and clear, carefully-balanced recordings this Hyperion disc is a must for adventurous cellists and listeners alike —
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A very good pianist, who understands the Lisztian idiom and presents it with great effectiveness —
