Piano Tedd Joselson's Companionship of Concertos Two major "war horses" here from a pianist of the uutmost musicality. We met Belgian-American pianist Tedd Joselson before on the Fantasy of Companionship [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/fantasy-of-companionship/] disc; here, in core repertorie, we get a sense of his greatness. From the first moment I heard Joselson
The Music of Enno Poppe It was fascinating to see, last Thursday evening (September 9) the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra in the German Premiere of Rebecca Saunders' piano concerto ... to an utterance at the Phiharmonie in Berlin; the soloist was Nic Hodges. The concert was conducted by Enno Poppe, better known in the UK
Choral Discover Dussek: his Messe solemnelle from the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr When superior musical execution meets highest musical scholarship, angels cry with joy
Bruckner Bruckner Symphony 3 in its Original Version The Third Symphony has for too long been overshadowed by the Fourth ...
Brahms Brahms Liebeslieder-Walzer, and more While the Liebeslieder functioned as a considerable financial success for Brahms, today they shine as jewels in Brahms' crown
Piano The London Piano Festival returns! (Festival Preview) The London Piano Festival is back in October! A cause of surely great celebration for all pianophiles, this regular part of London’s calendar returns with a major premiere plus the mouth-watering combination of Charles Owen and mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, OBE, on ‘Sounding Symmetry”. Du Sautoy, affiliated to Oxford
Chamber Music by William Walton Four works of chamber music here, representing all of Sir William Walton’s chamber music involving both violin and piano, spanning the years 1918 and 1950. Part of a Guildhall School research project entitled ‘Walton: his voice through the violin’, inspired by violinist Matthew Jones’s lifelong love of Walton’
Mozart Francesca Dego plays Mozart A release for all lovers of Mozart: life-enhancing, bracing, beautiful
Rebecca Saunders Rebecca Saunders (II): Solo Performances of the utmost commitment from members of Klangforum Wien; Saunders could hardly ask for finer accounts
Piano Víkingur Olafsson plays Mozart and his Contemporaries The release of this disc chimes in well with Víkingur Olafsson's recent performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491 at the Proms with the Philarmonia under Paavo Järvi. this disc seems the natural successor. And if either you didn't
Rebecca Saunders (I): Still, Aether, Alba Volume 35 of BR Klassik's Musica Viva series centres on the composer Rebecca Saunders, winner of the Siemens Prize in 2019 (you can read my report of the prizewnners' concert here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/06/a-terrific-evening-of-contemporary-music-shows-the-worth-of-the-ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis/] ). Saunder's Piano Concerto to an utterance to a
Piano Charles Ives meets Spiderman A most stimulating release. Ahonen is a fine pianist, captured in fabulous BIS sound
20th Century Penderecki Complete Music for String Quartet A disc shot full with life and adventure: absolutely what Classical Explorer is all about!. The vivid performances are self-recommending
Bach The Art of Fugue: Filippo Gorini's fabulous project There is no doubting that Filippo Gorini is one of the great thinkers around today ...
Con Arte e Maestria Nice to add a sort of semi-didactic element to a post - I've learned loads via this disc, which centres on "virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque"; the years around 1600, in other words. Billed as the "Monteverdi String Band In
Baroque Bononcini: Cantate e Sonate One of the jewels in Tactus' catalogue, beyond a shadow of a doubt - and the perfect introduction to the music of Giovanni Bononcini
Piano Nightlight: Cordelia William's beautifully themed recital Here, Mozart, Scriabin, Liszt, Schubert, Thomas Tomkins and Bill Evans all rub shoulders, culminating in - joy of joys! - Schumann's Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133, the exquisite fruit of that composer's troubled late period
Baroque Lamento: Iestyn Davies with Fretwork Following on from the success of Fretwork/Iestyn Davies’ album IF from 2019 (works by Purcell and Nyman), Lamento offers works for voice and viol consort from 17th-century Germany. Perhaps the locale of the composers is the first noteworthy aspect: the viol consort has long been associated with England. This
Bruckner Thielemann conducts Wagner and Bruckner Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic at their very best ... enjoy!
Baroque Bach's Pergolesi Stabat Mater (!) This is a remarkable disc, thought-provoking, educational and brilliantly, flawlessly performed
Classical Paul Wranitzky Orchestral Works #2 ... this is a fine continuation of the Wrantizky series and certainly further volumes are keenly awaited.
Times of Transition: C. P. E. Bach and Haydn Genius programming for this beautiful disc!. Our guide here is the cellist Andreas Brantelid, with the wonderful Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen (we met orchestra and conductor last Christmas on a vibrant disc called Per la notte di Natale [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/per-la-notte-di-natale-italian-christmas-concertos/] , and they are no less
Mozart Mozart Violin Sonatas With a playing time of just under 80 minutes, this is a surefire bargain!
