Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini – Final scene – La Monnaie/De Munt (Photo: Simon Van Rompay) Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini; John Osborn, Ruth Iniesta, Florence Losseau, Tijl Faveyts, Jean-Sebastian Bou, Ante Jerkunica, director: Thaddeus Strassberger, conductor Alain Altinoglu; La […]
This CD was a challenge to get my hands on. It is currently available only as a download (or streaming), and though the CD has been listed on Presto for a few weeks, it has […]
Some soul-searching lat Schubert today by two latter-day piano mastees. Leif One Andsnes and Bertrnd Chamayou are both poets of the piano (think long the likes of Murray Perahia). All the works date from the […]
In 1990, a meeting between Hyperion Records and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra discussed recording plans. The results were three discs with Jerzy Maksymiuk conducting, Piers Lane in piano concertos by Moskowski and Paderewski, Nikolai […]
In Harmony Liverpool 13 Birthday Concert, 2022 (Photo: Mark McNulty) Launched in February 2009, In Harmony Liverpool Philharmonic uses orchestral music making to improve the life chances of children by increasing confidence, wellbeing, skills and resilience, enhanced […]
Ethel Smyth: String Trio in D Major, Op. 6; Trio d’Iroise; Solaire RecordsReviewed 2 February 2026 Smyth’s early and relatively unknown string trio is the focus for the engaging yet sophisticated EP where the players’ […]
This is Michael Praetoius (157101621), by the way, not Heironymous. Settings of the same text are juxtaposed against each other throughout, one by Praetorius, one by Schütz. Praetoius and Schütz’s parallel setings of the penitential […]
A beautiful mix of Berg, Schulhoff and Webern here. This is the Leonkoro Quartet’s debut recoding fo Alpha Classics, offering performances of polish and superb resonance with the music of the Second Viennese School. Berg’s […]
A nine-year-old girl goes on stage to make her concerto debut in Mozart’s Rondo for piano and orchestra in D Major, K. 382 but as she steps onto the stage she trips and sends things […]
The Lambeth Anonymous: Recordings from the Arundel Choirbook; Iken Scholars, Matthew Dunn; RUBICONReviewed 3 February 2026 Seven anonymous, hitherto unrecorded works from the Arundel Choirbook now in Lambeth Palace Library now given voice by this […]
