Sébastien Daucé leads Ensemble Correspondances in Bach’s cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131.
Tag: Period Instruments
In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – December 2025
Brief reviews of five recent classical albums: Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, the Nash Ensemble play Ravel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, Haydn’s Op. 76 String Quartets with Quatuor Arod, and Mikhail Pletnev in Preludes by Chopin and Scriabin.
Review: Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem – Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Raphaël Pichon conducts Pygmalion in Brahms’s “A German Requiem”, with baritone Stéphane Degout and soprano Sabine Devieilhe.
Review: Gluck – Orphée et Eurydice – Les Arts Florissants – Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in the Paris 1774 version of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice.
Review: Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 – Mahan Esfahani, Harpsichord
Mahan Esfahani plays the first book of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier on the harpsichord.
Review: Purcell – Dido & Aeneas – Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Joyce DiDonato takes the lead role in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, with Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev. Other cast members include Michael Spyres, Fatma Said and Beth Taylor.
Review: ‘Visitng Rachmaninoff’ – Alexander Melnikov, Julia Lezhneva
Pianist Alexander Melnikov and soprano Julia Lezhneva in a Rachmaninoff program, played on the composer’s own instrument.
Double Review: Bojan Čičić and Rachel Podger Play Biber
Bojan Čičić and Rachel Podger in two new albums with Biber violin sonatas from 1681.
Review: Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburger Barockorchester in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played on period instruments.
Review: ‘Chopin Intime” – Justin Taylor, Pianino Pleyel 1839
Justin Taylor plays Chopin on a Pleyel Pianino from 1839, including Preludes, Nocturnes Mazurkas and Etudes.
