Ensemble Resonanz and conductor Riccardo Minasi perform Mozart’s Symphonies No. 39-41 (“Jupiter).
Category: Album Reviews
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Review: Adès Conducts Adès – Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Thomas Adès performs two of his works with the Boston Symphony Orchestra – the Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein and “Totentanz”.
Review: Pergolesi – Stabat Mater – Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey, Rousset
Christopher Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques return to Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, with Soprano Sandrine Piau and Contralto Christopher Lowrey
Review: Grieg – Violin Sonatas – Hemsing, Trpčeski
Violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing and pianist Simon Trpčeski perform the complete Violin Sonatas by Edvard Grieg.
Review: “The Mythos Suite” – Debbie Wiseman, Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry narrates from his book “Mythos”, to music by Debbie Wiseman with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Review: Mozart – Piano Concertos, Vol 5 – Bavouzet
In the fifth volume of Bavouzet’s Mozart Piano Concertos cycle for Chandos, Bavouzet player the early Concertos No. 5 to 9 (“Jeunehomme”).
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) – Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and its Concertmaster Bernhard Forck present two orchestral pieces which depicts nature – Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and Knecht’s “Le portrait musical de la nature.”
Review: Chopin – 24 Preludes, Schumann – Ghost Variations – Eric Lu, Piano
Eric Lu plays Chopin’s 24 preludes and Schumann’s “Geistervariationen”, in his first solo album since winning the Leeds Piano Competition.
Review: Beethoven – Piano Trios – Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley
Renaud and Gautier Capuçon with pianist Frank Braley perform Beethoven’s “Ghost” and “Archduke” piano trios. (Erato, 2020).
Review: Parry – “Judith” – London Mozart Players, Vann
Chandos Records in a debut release of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s “Judith”, with soloists, the London Mozart Players and the Crouch End Festival Chorus.
