Hyperion
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Mendelssohn - Songs & Duets Volume 5
Eugene Asti (piano), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Hannah Morrison (soprano), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Finnur Bjarnason (tenor), James Rutherford (baritone), Stephan Loges (baritone)
...the best of the young singers here is the mezzo Anna Grevelius...As in previous volumes, Eugene Asti plays with a refreshingly light touch and a lively sense of rhythm. —
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 11 - Reger
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek
it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original...Chief... —
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With playing that’s never less than well-considered, gleaming and enjoyable, Lane is an excellent guide to these impassioned worlds – although at times, particularly in the Rachmaninov, there’s... —
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Ohlsson may not inhabit Manuel de Falla’s sultry and exuberant piano-writing as Alicia de Larrocha or Javier Perianes do, yet he embraces the idiom with ease and fluidity, and leaves few small... —
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Thankfully, the scholars have more sense than to draw precise parallels between any particular piece of music and a particular sculpture…the six adult male singers of The Binchois Consort under... —
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Arias for Benucci
Arias written for the buffo bass-baritone Francesco Benucci, Mozart’s first Figaro
Matthew Rose (bass), Katherine Watson (soprano), Anna Devin (soprano)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Matthew Rose's protean instrument may lack the full-bodied glamour of, say, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo's, and his Italian, albeit extremely proficient, sports a noticeable English accent. Happily,... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 51 - Taubert & Rosenhain
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
How [Shelley] manages to play these newly learnt scores with such conviction and apparent ease while conducting from the keyboard with such precision and sensitivity is one of the musical marvels... —
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Leif's own offering is a beautifully expressive composition deserving of repeated listening. Musically, all swans are not created equal, but it is, as ever, about personal taste, and the performances... —
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata & Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Bridge’s Cello Sonata incline more to rhapsody than rhetoric, and draws particularly heartfelt playing from Clein and Hadland in the lingeringly regretful opening of the second movement…[The... —
