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Presteigne Premieres

Presteigne Premieres

A superbly recorded and performed release: all lovers of English music should get this disc!

Schubert: Three Song Cycles

Schubert: Three Song Cycles

A fine set of performances here from Christoph Prégardien, a singer who has impressed in Schubert at the Wigmore on more than occasion (with James Bailieu here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2016/04/a-stimulating-schubert-recital-by-julian-pregardien-and-james-baillieu/] and with Christoph Schnackertz here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2015/11/christoph-pregardien-champions-lesser-known-schubert-lieder/] ). It is tremendous to have the

Brahms' Third and a magnificent Serenade

Brahms' Third and a magnificent Serenade

We have to thank Iván Fischer for his championing of this wonderful Serenade

Voyage: Christine J. Lee and Henry Karmer's exceptional journey

Voyage: Christine J. Lee and Henry Karmer's exceptional journey

After the Chandos disc of American Quintets [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/american-quintets-music-by-beach-price-and-barber/] - which included Samuel Barber's Dover Beach - it seems a good idea to use some more Barber as a launching-off point for exploration. This time, it's the Cello Sonata which, in the secure

Mozart Sonatas for Four Hands with Rados & Gerstein

Mozart Sonatas for Four Hands with Rados & Gerstein

An absolute joy: two top musicians, beautfully attuned, both to each other and to Mozart

Schumann Complete Piano Trios, plus more treats ...

Schumann Complete Piano Trios, plus more treats ...

One of the finest sets of chamber music in recent years

Mahler's Song of Lamentation: Das Klagende Lied

Mahler's Song of Lamentation: Das Klagende Lied

A valuable addition to Gielen's Mahler, and a valuable addiiton to to Das Klagende Lied's discography

The King's Alchemist: British Works for String Trio

The King's Alchemist: British Works for String Trio

Both the Hugh Wood and the Beamish are World Premiere recordings - the catalogue is now all the richer for them

American Quintets: Music by Beach, Price and Barber

American Quintets: Music by Beach, Price and Barber

A veritable cornucopia of American chamber music

A Bavarian Bruckner Three from Jansons

A Bavarian Bruckner Three from Jansons

We've met Janson's Bruckner Sixth Symphony [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/bruckner-symphony-no-6/] before on Classical Explorer. Now it's time for the Third - but "which" Third is it? The thorny question of Bruckner's revisions raises its head. Jansons has opted for

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Just. Don't. Miss. This. One.

Mozart Momentum 1785: Leif-Ove Andsnes

Mozart Momentum 1785: Leif-Ove Andsnes

The inventive, imaginative Norwegian pianist Leif-Ove Andsnes never fails to stimulate. Here is his latest offering, and it's an absolute gem! Mozart Momentum 1785 concentrates on works from the seminal period of 1785 (and 1786) - a time when Mozart was freelance in Vienna. He had arrived in

Heart & Hereafter: The Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Heart & Hereafter: The Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

I enjoyed soprano Elizabeth Llewelyn's contributions to Chelsea Opera Group's Boito Mefitofele [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/03/chelsea-opera-group-give-a-glorious-performance-of-boitos-mefistofele/] in 2019, in Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony [https://seenandheard-international.com/2017/10/brabbins-and-the-bbc-symphony-in-an-inspired-pairing-of-earth-and-sea/] at the Barbican in 2017 and - heart-stoppingly - as Magda in Puccini&

Virtuoso Dances: Violinist Linus Roth

Virtuoso Dances: Violinist Linus Roth

A lockdown baby, this. Forced into lockdown in Spring 2020, after a gruelling, circuitous journey back to Europe from South America (landing at a completely empty Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris), violinist Linus Roth decided to put down some of the music that lies closesto this heart. Recorded with

Reflections

This really is a voyage of listening; one is led through it, transfixed

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

Two beautifully complementary releases then, revealing different sides of this fascinating composer.

Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev and Myaskovsky

Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev and Myaskovsky

This is a spectacularly successful series

Francesca Dego plays Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari

Francesca Dego plays Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari

A disc to cherish; a fabulously inventive coupling, and performances that glow with the energy of youth

Brautigam plays Weber

Brautigam plays Weber

Brautigam offers pure refreshment, like drinking pure spring water

Bach Sonatas for Viola da Gamba (and some Marais)

Bach Sonatas for Viola da Gamba (and some Marais)

Robert Smith specialises in Baroque cello and viola da gamba. I enjoyed his contribution to the group Concerto Delaborde in France in 2019 [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/08/varied-musical-entertainments-in-cercles-from-itineraire-baroque/] , and to La Gazette Musicale in a fabulous performance of Boccherini as part of the same Baroque Itinéraire 2017 Festival (review

Pedal Power! Ecologically friendly commissioning from the London Sinfonietta

Pedal Power! Ecologically friendly commissioning from the London Sinfonietta

(Composer Laura Bowler, photo copyright Robin Clewey) Last week the London Sinfoinetta, a resident orchestra at London's Southbank Centre, announced a trailblazing commission from composer Laura Bowler, Houses Slide. The premiere will take place at the Royal Festival Hall on July 9. The production will be powered entirely

A Tale of Two Artax(s)erx(s)es

A Tale of Two Artax(s)erx(s)es

Artax(s)erx(s)es = (assasination + murder)

The return of Paavo Järvi: Tchaikovsky Symphonies 2 & 4

The return of Paavo Järvi: Tchaikovsky Symphonies 2 & 4

Järvi brings a modern view to the scores, revealing their multifaceted genius without diminishing the power. Quite an achievement!

Carmina Predulcia

Carmina Predulcia

No, not that Carmina, not Orff's Carmina Burana ...enter another world!

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

Beethoven Violin Sonatas

Previously on Classical Explorer, we looked at performances of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas by James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong on Ony [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/beethoven-violin-sonatas-from-onyx/]x; here's a disc of three sonatas by a similarly youthful duo: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen. This new BIS disc