Aug. 2, 2017
This past month our reviewers found a number of interesting recitals on record. The Borromeo String Quartet shows the versatility of Bach's music with a transcription of the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier. Marc-André Hamelin tries his hands at something different from his virtuosic showpieces: the music of Morton Feldman. The program for Meraviglia d'amore is comprised of love songs and virtually unknown guitar music from 17th century Italy, while other vocal recitals include songs by Lori Laitman and folk songs by Percy Grainger. There is also Fauré's music for cello and music for oboe quartet, for those who enjoy chamber music. It all provides for some intimate and relaxed listening.
Blair Sanderson
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concertos, Op. 7 Nos. 1, 3, 4 & 5
Borromeo String Quartet - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book One for String Quartet
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: Madrigali & Selva Morale
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen - Claudio Monteverdi: The Selva Morale e Spirituale Collection
Laurence Cummings, FestpielOrchester Göttingen - Händel: Water Music
Michael Endres - Michael Endres Plays Schubert
Valery Gergiev, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss: Don Juan; Ein Heldenleben
Marc-André Hamelin - Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
Heath Quartet - Béla Bartók: Complete String Quartets
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Orlando Consort - Machaut: Sovereign Beauty
Emilio Percan, National Symphony Orchestra of Republic of Bashkortostan - Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77; Symphony No. 3
Javier Perianes - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 960 & D. 664
Baptiste Romain, Le Miroir de Musique - Johannes Tinctoris: Secret Consolations
Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra - Mahler 5
Kazuki Yamada, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - De Falla: Noches en Los Jardines de España; El Sombrero de Tres Picos
James Manheim
John Mark Ainsley, Felicity Lott, Kathryn Rudge, Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn - Songs by Donald Swann
Aldeburgh Winds, Aldeburgh Strings - Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen; Serenade, Op. 7; Symphony for Wind Instruments
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully; Leçons de Ténèbres
Arditti Quartet - Pascal Dusapin: Quaturo VI "Hinterland"; Quatuor VII "Open Time"
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Bach: French Suites
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuzi - Bach Secular Cantatas, Vol. 8: Celebration Cantatas
Daniel Barenboim, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Thomas Hampson. Staatskapelle Dresden - Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Marco Beasley, Private Musicke, Pierre Pitzl - Meraviglia d'amore: Love Songs from 17th-century Italy
Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn - Percy Grainger: Folk Music
Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg - Fauré: The Music for Cello and Piano
Britten Oboe Quartet, Nicholas Daniel - A Tribute to Janet
Julia Broxholm, Russell Miller - Soul Fox: A Song Cycle by Lori Laitman
Renaud Capuçon, Christoph Koncz, Gérard Caussé, Marie Chilemme, Gautier Capuçon, Clemens Hagen - Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2
Max Emanuel Cencic, Il Pomo D'Oro, George Petrou - Handel: Ottone
Stephen Cleobury - The King of Instruments: A Voice Reborn
Alice Coote, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht - Mahler Songs Cycles
Diana Damrau - Meyerbeer: Grand Opera
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Salagon Quartet - César Franck: Sonate pour Piano et Violon; Ernest Chausson: Concert
Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet - Visions
Gustavo Gimeno, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg- Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Vadim Gluzman - Brahms: Violin Concerto & Sonata No. 1
Ann Hallenberg, Il pomo d'oro - Carnevale 1729
Claire Huangci - A Chopin Diary
Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews - Subito
Alexandre Kantorow - À la Russe
Christiane Karg - Parfum
Reto Kuppel, Wolfgang Manz - Paul and Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatas; Violin Sonatina
Anthony Marwood, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins - Walton: Violin Concerto
The Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney - Like as the Hart
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem
ORA - Many are the wonders
Leontyne Price, Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Aida
Carolyn Sampson, Freiburger Barockorchester - Bach: Cantatas for Soprano
Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 71: Czerny
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, David Skinner - Polyphonia in Excelsis
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton - Stanford: Choral Music
Robin Tritschler, Graham Johnson - Songs by Robert Franz
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Various Artists - Bright Sheng: Northern Lights
Blair Sanderson
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concertos, Op. 7 Nos. 1, 3, 4 & 5
Borromeo String Quartet - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book One for String Quartet
William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: Madrigali & Selva Morale
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen - Claudio Monteverdi: The Selva Morale e Spirituale Collection
Laurence Cummings, FestpielOrchester Göttingen - Händel: Water Music
Michael Endres - Michael Endres Plays Schubert
Valery Gergiev, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss: Don Juan; Ein Heldenleben
Marc-André Hamelin - Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
Heath Quartet - Béla Bartók: Complete String Quartets
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Orlando Consort - Machaut: Sovereign Beauty
Emilio Percan, National Symphony Orchestra of Republic of Bashkortostan - Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77; Symphony No. 3
Javier Perianes - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 960 & D. 664
Baptiste Romain, Le Miroir de Musique - Johannes Tinctoris: Secret Consolations
Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra - Mahler 5
Kazuki Yamada, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - De Falla: Noches en Los Jardines de España; El Sombrero de Tres Picos
James Manheim
John Mark Ainsley, Felicity Lott, Kathryn Rudge, Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn - Songs by Donald Swann
Aldeburgh Winds, Aldeburgh Strings - Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen; Serenade, Op. 7; Symphony for Wind Instruments
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Couperin: L'Apothéose de Lully; Leçons de Ténèbres
Arditti Quartet - Pascal Dusapin: Quaturo VI "Hinterland"; Quatuor VII "Open Time"
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Bach: French Suites
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuzi - Bach Secular Cantatas, Vol. 8: Celebration Cantatas
Daniel Barenboim, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Thomas Hampson. Staatskapelle Dresden - Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Marco Beasley, Private Musicke, Pierre Pitzl - Meraviglia d'amore: Love Songs from 17th-century Italy
Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn - Percy Grainger: Folk Music
Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg - Fauré: The Music for Cello and Piano
Britten Oboe Quartet, Nicholas Daniel - A Tribute to Janet
Julia Broxholm, Russell Miller - Soul Fox: A Song Cycle by Lori Laitman
Renaud Capuçon, Christoph Koncz, Gérard Caussé, Marie Chilemme, Gautier Capuçon, Clemens Hagen - Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2
Max Emanuel Cencic, Il Pomo D'Oro, George Petrou - Handel: Ottone
Stephen Cleobury - The King of Instruments: A Voice Reborn
Alice Coote, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht - Mahler Songs Cycles
Diana Damrau - Meyerbeer: Grand Opera
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Salagon Quartet - César Franck: Sonate pour Piano et Violon; Ernest Chausson: Concert
Véronique Gens, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet - Visions
Gustavo Gimeno, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg- Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Vadim Gluzman - Brahms: Violin Concerto & Sonata No. 1
Ann Hallenberg, Il pomo d'oro - Carnevale 1729
Claire Huangci - A Chopin Diary
Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews - Subito
Alexandre Kantorow - À la Russe
Christiane Karg - Parfum
Reto Kuppel, Wolfgang Manz - Paul and Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatas; Violin Sonatina
Anthony Marwood, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins - Walton: Violin Concerto
The Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney - Like as the Hart
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem
ORA - Many are the wonders
Leontyne Price, Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Aida
Carolyn Sampson, Freiburger Barockorchester - Bach: Cantatas for Soprano
Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra - Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 71: Czerny
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, David Skinner - Polyphonia in Excelsis
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton - Stanford: Choral Music
Robin Tritschler, Graham Johnson - Songs by Robert Franz
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Various Artists - Bright Sheng: Northern Lights