I’m late to the party this year (the London Handel Festival), so it’s looking a bit like I might have to have a private party at home: this glorious, glorious disc of Handel Cantaras, early […]
What a wonderful idea.! This Pentatone release takes Pale Mikkelborg’s Bill Evans Suite as a starting point – a suite recoded initially in 1969, and which takes Evans’ classics and juxtaposes big band and jazz […]
The programme here echoes that of Werner’s Wigmore Hall concert last April (review), and holds the Hidegard O vis as constant; sadly, I had to miss out on Werner and fiends at King’s Place last […]
There consecutive symphonies here, two nicknames, one Minuet. It’s a recipe for much delight, as Michael Collins leads the Philrmonia in performances of strength and lyricism, performance material based on the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (New […]
What a lovely idea, beautifully realised. “An evening at the Schumann’s: is very much Robert and Clara; or is that Clara and Robert? We start with Clara, the Andante molto, the first of the three […]
This is the “Belgian Court Trio” (Trio from the Court of Belgium, literally)” Emile Bouquet, piano (1878-1959); Alfred Dubois, violin, and Maurice Dambois, cello (1889-1969). All encodings are taken from Columbia originals (a watchword for […]
Relocation, relocation, relocation: Coney Island, Booklyn, is a long way from the Bay of Naples. But such is the setting for Phelim McDermott’s Cosi fan tutte; or is that Cosi fan tutti? The latter appears […]
The indefatigable Neeme Jävi (I wonder what his record disc total is?) leads the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in his fabulously recorded disc, a coupling of composers one might not immediately consider juxtaposing, too: the Swedish […]
Monteverdi Madrigals, Book VIII (excerpts). Altri canti d’Amor; Ho che’l ciel e la terra; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Ballo, Movete al mio bel suon la piante snll. Altri canti de Mare; Vago augelletto […]
So, afe the French part of Sandine Piau nd David Kadouch’s Wigmore recital on Monday (review posted yesterday), here’s an extension of that French arm: Iris Scialom and Antonin Bonnet making their recoding debut as […]
