Sep. 5, 2012
Here’s what the AMG Classical staff reviewed in the past month:
Blair Sanderson
Daniel Barenboim - The Very Best of Daniel Barenboim
Jorge Bolet, Günter Wand - Günter Wand Edition, Vol. 20
Darryl Brenzel, Mobtown Modern Big Band - The Re-(W)rite of Spring
Rudolf Buchbinder - Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy
Vladimir Feltsman - A Tribute to Rachmaninoff
Nelson Freire - Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends
Daniel Gaede, Xuesu Liu, Philharmonisches Streichsextett - Korngold: Werke für Violine & Klavier; Streichsextett
Graces & Voices - Mysterium Crucis
Henschel Quartet, Susanne Kelling - Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic - Franz Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 6 "The Little" & 7 (8) "Unfinished"
Richard Hickox - Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works
Marek Janowski, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
Mariss Jansons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonien 1 & 4
Hannu Lintu, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra - George Enescu: Symphony No. 2; Chamber Symphony
Francesco La Vecchia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Wind Concertinos
Valentina Lisitsa - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - A New Venetian Coronation, 1595
Roger Norrington - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Mikhail Pletnev - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
Quartetto Prometeo - Wolf: Complete Music for String Quartet
Luca Ranieri - J.S. Bach: The 6 Solo Suites BWV 1007-1012 [Viola Version]
Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass; Charles Griffes: Poem; The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
John Storgårds, Chamber Orchestra of Lapland - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies
Various Artists - Spirales: Snapshots of Contemporary Classical Music
Viviana Sofronitsky - Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy; Impromptus
Talich Quartet - Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Dvorák: Sextet for Strings
Simone Young - Johannes Brahms: Sinfonie No. 2; Tragische Ouvertüre
Patsy Morita
Lang Lang - Complete Recordings 2000-2009
Trio Parnassus, Gérard Caussé - Léon Boëllmann: Chamber Music
Xiayin Wang - Rachmaninoff: Moments musicaux; Études-tableaux, Op. 33; Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Stephen Eddins
Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko, Stephan Macleod - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres
La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recasens - La Fiesta de Pascua en Piazza Navona
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen - Handel: Saul
Simon Halsey, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Jonathan Dove: There was a Child
Risto Joost, Voces Musicales, Tallinn Sinfonietta - Arvo Pärt: Pilgrim's Song
Juanjo Mena, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Steven Osborne, Cynthia Millar - Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Orphei Drängar, Cecilia Rydinger Alin - Curse Upon Iron: Works for Male Choir by Veljo Tormis
Anne Sofie von Otter - Sogno Barocco
Ian Page - Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus
Juan Sancho, Manuel Vilas - Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 2
Andreas Seidel, Steffen Schleiermacher - Morton Feldman: Violin & Piano
Giancarlo Simonacci - John Cage: Music for Piano Nos. 1-84; ASLSP; One; One2; One5
SONYC - First Takes
Tenebrae - Will Todd: The Call of Wisdom
Tonus Peregrinus - Music from the Eton Choirbook
Various Artists - Serenity: The Beauty of Arvo Pärt
John Zorn - John Zorn: Rimbaud
James Manheim
Elisha Abas, Yoel Gamzou - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Georg Philipp Telemann: Quixotte & La Changeante
Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice - Jean Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus
Brodsky Quartet - Jorge Grundman: God's Sketches
Capilla Flamenca, Dirk Snellings - Adriaen Willaert: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Giammarco Casani, Laura Minguzzi, Francesco La Vecchia - Ferruccio Busoni: Clarinet Concertino; Flute Divertimento; Rondò arlecchinesco
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov - Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness; Schlomo; From Jewish Life; Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - Witold Lutoslawski: Musique funèbre; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Divertimento; Seven Songs
Gustavo Dudamel, Wiener Philharmoniker - Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert 2012: Dances and Waves
Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García Alarcón - Bach - Böhm: Music for Weddings and Other Festivities
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa - Canzoni Villanesche: Neapolitan Love Songs of the 16th Century
Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher Gibbons: Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries
Péter Eötvös, UMZE Ensemble - Ligeti and Kurtág at Carnegie Hall
JoAnn Falletta, London Symphony Orchestra - Kenneth Fuchs: Atlantic Riband; American Rhapsody; Divinum Mysterium
Allison Brewster Franzetti - Weinberg: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2
Fretwork, Michael Chance, Sophie Yates - Sublime Discourses
Véronique Gens, John Axelrod - Berlioz: Herminie; Les Nuits d'été; Ravel: Shéhérazade
David Greilsammer - Baroque Conversations
Pierre Hantaï - Bach: Goldberg Variations; Concertos
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium Defunctorum
Valentina Igoshina - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Hamlet Overture
Neeme Järvi - Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career
Moran Katz, Ben Capps - Andrew Violette: Sonatas for Cello & Clarinet
KMW Trio - Cécile Chaminade: The Piano Trios
Sara Mingardo, Luigi Piovano, Musici Aurei - Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Beata Moon - Saros
Musica Contexta, Steven Devine, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Byrd: The Great Service in the Chapel Royal
Nash Ensemble - Borodin: String Sextet; Glazunov: String Quintet; Arensky: String Quartet No. 2
Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg - A Summer's Day: Swedish Romantic Songs
Marc Peloquin - David del Tredici: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Pera Ensemble - Café: Orient meets Occident
Joanne Polk - Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn
Gunther Rost, Gabriel Feltz - Petr Eben: Landscapes of Patmos; Okna; Concerto No. 2 for Organ
Christophe Rousset - Marchand, Rameau
Trio Chausson - Piano Trios: Chaminade, Debussy, Lenormand
Tamás Varga, Ferenc Bognar - The Thievish Cello
VIDA Guitar Quatet - Love, The Magician
Mark Wigglesworth - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Takuo Yuasa, Tokyo Geidai Philharmonia - Qunihico Hashimoto: Symphony No. 2; Three Wasan; Scherzo con sentimento
Christian Zacharias - Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Blair Sanderson
Daniel Barenboim - The Very Best of Daniel Barenboim
Jorge Bolet, Günter Wand - Günter Wand Edition, Vol. 20
Darryl Brenzel, Mobtown Modern Big Band - The Re-(W)rite of Spring
Rudolf Buchbinder - Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy
Vladimir Feltsman - A Tribute to Rachmaninoff
Nelson Freire - Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos & Friends
Daniel Gaede, Xuesu Liu, Philharmonisches Streichsextett - Korngold: Werke für Violine & Klavier; Streichsextett
Graces & Voices - Mysterium Crucis
Henschel Quartet, Susanne Kelling - Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Philippe Herreweghe, Royal Flemish Philharmonic - Franz Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 6 "The Little" & 7 (8) "Unfinished"
Richard Hickox - Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works
Marek Janowski, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
Mariss Jansons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonien 1 & 4
Hannu Lintu, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra - George Enescu: Symphony No. 2; Chamber Symphony
Francesco La Vecchia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Wind Concertinos
Valentina Lisitsa - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players - A New Venetian Coronation, 1595
Roger Norrington - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Mikhail Pletnev - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
Quartetto Prometeo - Wolf: Complete Music for String Quartet
Luca Ranieri - J.S. Bach: The 6 Solo Suites BWV 1007-1012 [Viola Version]
Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass; Charles Griffes: Poem; The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
John Storgårds, Chamber Orchestra of Lapland - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies
Various Artists - Spirales: Snapshots of Contemporary Classical Music
Viviana Sofronitsky - Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy; Impromptus
Talich Quartet - Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Dvorák: Sextet for Strings
Simone Young - Johannes Brahms: Sinfonie No. 2; Tragische Ouvertüre
Patsy Morita
Lang Lang - Complete Recordings 2000-2009
Trio Parnassus, Gérard Caussé - Léon Boëllmann: Chamber Music
Xiayin Wang - Rachmaninoff: Moments musicaux; Études-tableaux, Op. 33; Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Stephen Eddins
Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko, Stephan Macleod - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres
La Grande Chapelle, Albert Recasens - La Fiesta de Pascua en Piazza Navona
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen - Handel: Saul
Simon Halsey, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Jonathan Dove: There was a Child
Risto Joost, Voces Musicales, Tallinn Sinfonietta - Arvo Pärt: Pilgrim's Song
Juanjo Mena, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Steven Osborne, Cynthia Millar - Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Orphei Drängar, Cecilia Rydinger Alin - Curse Upon Iron: Works for Male Choir by Veljo Tormis
Anne Sofie von Otter - Sogno Barocco
Ian Page - Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus
Juan Sancho, Manuel Vilas - Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 2
Andreas Seidel, Steffen Schleiermacher - Morton Feldman: Violin & Piano
Giancarlo Simonacci - John Cage: Music for Piano Nos. 1-84; ASLSP; One; One2; One5
SONYC - First Takes
Tenebrae - Will Todd: The Call of Wisdom
Tonus Peregrinus - Music from the Eton Choirbook
Various Artists - Serenity: The Beauty of Arvo Pärt
John Zorn - John Zorn: Rimbaud
James Manheim
Elisha Abas, Yoel Gamzou - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Georg Philipp Telemann: Quixotte & La Changeante
Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice - Jean Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus
Brodsky Quartet - Jorge Grundman: God's Sketches
Capilla Flamenca, Dirk Snellings - Adriaen Willaert: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Giammarco Casani, Laura Minguzzi, Francesco La Vecchia - Ferruccio Busoni: Clarinet Concertino; Flute Divertimento; Rondò arlecchinesco
Natalie Clein, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov - Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness; Schlomo; From Jewish Life; Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - Witold Lutoslawski: Musique funèbre; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Divertimento; Seven Songs
Gustavo Dudamel, Wiener Philharmoniker - Schönbrunn Summer Night Concert 2012: Dances and Waves
Ensemble Clematis, Leonardo García Alarcón - Bach - Böhm: Music for Weddings and Other Festivities
Ensemble Daedalus, Roberto Festa - Canzoni Villanesche: Neapolitan Love Songs of the 16th Century
Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher Gibbons: Motets, Anthems, Fantasias & Voluntaries
Péter Eötvös, UMZE Ensemble - Ligeti and Kurtág at Carnegie Hall
JoAnn Falletta, London Symphony Orchestra - Kenneth Fuchs: Atlantic Riband; American Rhapsody; Divinum Mysterium
Allison Brewster Franzetti - Weinberg: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2
Fretwork, Michael Chance, Sophie Yates - Sublime Discourses
Véronique Gens, John Axelrod - Berlioz: Herminie; Les Nuits d'été; Ravel: Shéhérazade
David Greilsammer - Baroque Conversations
Pierre Hantaï - Bach: Goldberg Variations; Concertos
Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Officium Defunctorum
Valentina Igoshina - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Hamlet Overture
Neeme Järvi - Highlights from a remarkable 30-year recording career
Moran Katz, Ben Capps - Andrew Violette: Sonatas for Cello & Clarinet
KMW Trio - Cécile Chaminade: The Piano Trios
Sara Mingardo, Luigi Piovano, Musici Aurei - Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Beata Moon - Saros
Musica Contexta, Steven Devine, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Byrd: The Great Service in the Chapel Royal
Nash Ensemble - Borodin: String Sextet; Glazunov: String Quintet; Arensky: String Quartet No. 2
Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg - A Summer's Day: Swedish Romantic Songs
Marc Peloquin - David del Tredici: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
Pera Ensemble - Café: Orient meets Occident
Joanne Polk - Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn
Gunther Rost, Gabriel Feltz - Petr Eben: Landscapes of Patmos; Okna; Concerto No. 2 for Organ
Christophe Rousset - Marchand, Rameau
Trio Chausson - Piano Trios: Chaminade, Debussy, Lenormand
Tamás Varga, Ferenc Bognar - The Thievish Cello
VIDA Guitar Quatet - Love, The Magician
Mark Wigglesworth - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Takuo Yuasa, Tokyo Geidai Philharmonia - Qunihico Hashimoto: Symphony No. 2; Three Wasan; Scherzo con sentimento
Christian Zacharias - Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4