Review: Florence Price: Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 (Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter)
Price, and at a bargain price: an overdue American discovery.
April 22, 2019
Review: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 (Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons)
Nelsons’ triumphant Shostakovich series continues in a blaze of glory.
April 22, 2019
Review: Imaginations (Acacia Quartet, Matt Withers)
Withers' Competition bears fruit in an engaging album of (mostly) new repertoire.
April 18, 2019
Review: Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Jaap van Zweden)
Hong Kong sees a suitably splendid end of the operatic world.
April 15, 2019
Review: Stravinsky & Rimsky-Korsakov (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko)
Vasily Petrenko kills two Russian birds with one Liverpudlian CD.
April 15, 2019
Review: The Classic André Previn: Complete RCA & Columbia Collection (Various Orchestras & Soloists/André Previn)
Sony’s Previn birthday box becomes a fitting memorial.
April 15, 2019
Review: Saint-Saëns: Symphony No 3 (Paul Jacobs, Utah Symphony/Thierry Fischer)
Saint-Saëns with American muscle and Gallic lyricism.
April 15, 2019
Review: Strauss: Die Fledermaus (NDR Radiophilharmonie/ Lawrence Foster)
A Fledermaus caught on the wing offers many live pleasures.
April 15, 2019
Review: Puccini in Love (Aleksandra Kurzak, Roberto Alagna)
Husband and wife summon up the necessary Puccinian passion.
April 15, 2019
Review: Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas (Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen)
From Russia with despair: Isserlis and Mustonen’s passions run the Soviet gamut.
April 12, 2019
Review: Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale (Roger Waters, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Musicians)
Waters’ multiple personalities bring Stravinsky to life.
April 8, 2019
Review: Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner)
Ulisse completes this Monteverdian’s Monteverdi.
April 8, 2019
Review: Spring Will Come (Helsinki Chamber Choir/Nils Schweckendiek)
A sweetly sugared recital of 19th-century Finnish choral rarities.
April 8, 2019