Jul. 6, 2012
Here's what the AMG Classical staff reviewed this past month:
Blair Sanderson
Marin Alsop, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra - Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; The Year 1941
Amar Quartet - Hindemith: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Martha Argerich - Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano Festival 2011
Avi Avital - Bach
Inon Barnatan - Darknesse Visible
Barokksolistene - London Calling!
Boris Bekhterev - Scriabin: Complete Mazurkas
Alda Caiello, Prazák Quartet - Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21; Suite Op. 29
Carl Davis, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Ben Hur: MGM 1925
Colin Davis, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies; Tone Poems
Christoph von Dohnányi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Gustavo Dudamel, Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Abdel Rahman El Bacha - Prokofiev: Œuvres pour Piano
JoAnn Falletta, Ulster Orchestra - Holst: Cotswolds Symphony
Gabriel Feltz, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
David Garrett - Legacy
Michael Gielen - Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Marc-André Hamelin - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
David Hill, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Delius: A Mass of Life; Prelude and Idyll
Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Neeme Järvi conducts Saint-Saëns
Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque - Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung)
Cédric Pescia - John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes
Christoph Poppen, SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Paul Sperry - Open House: Songs Cycles by William Bolcom & Robert Beaser
Thomas Trotter, Arvo Volmer - Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony; Poulenc: Concerto for Organ
Monika Wolinska, Sinfonia Varsovia - Eugeniusz Morawski
James Manheim
Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Marin Alsop, String Fever - Fever Pitch
Stefano Bollani, Riccardo Chailly - Sounds of the 30s
Vilde Frang - Nielsen, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Chiara Banchini, Jorg-Andreas Botticher - Bach: Sonates pour Clavecin Obligé et Violon
René Bosc - Stravinsky: Les Noces
Cappella Pratensis -Johannes Ockeghem, Pierre de la Rue: Requiem
Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae
Mirian Conti - Nostalgias Argentinas
Jeremy Denk - Jeremy Denk plays Ligeti & Beethoven
Robert Fripp, Jan Stulen, Metropole Orkest - Wine of Silence
Daniele Gatti, Orchestre National de France - Debussy: Orchestral Works
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane - Hamilton Harty: String Quartets; Piano Quintet
Jacob Greenberg - Schumann: Humoreske; Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Claes Gunnarsson, Thord Svedlund - Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto; Symphony No. 20
The Hilliard Ensemble - Carlo Gesualdo: Quinto Libro di Madrigali
Michael Hofstetter; Ensemble Barock Vokal, Mainz; Neumeyer Consort - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Laudate Pueri Dominum
John Holloway, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jane Gower - Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta - Schubert: Operatic Overtures
Neeme Järvi, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Jasper String Quartet - The Kernis Project: Schubert
Mari Kodama - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Piano Concerto No. 3
Carel Kraayenhof, Ed Spanjaard - Tango Royal
Yakov Kreizberg, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra - Chostakovitch: Symphonie No. 11 "L'Année 1905"
Vladimir Lande, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra - Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Symphony No. 6; Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
HJ Lim - Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Alessandro Marangoni, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concertos
Jordi Masó - Joaquín Turina: Jardins d'Andalousie
Alexander Melnikov, Jerusalem Quartet - Schumann: Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet
Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli - Vivaldi: New Discoveries, Vol. 2
New Broadway Cast -Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Alfredo Casella: Concerto for Orchestra; A Notte Alta; Fragments Symphoniques de la Donna Serpente
Phantasm - William Lawes: Consorts to the Organ
Schubert Ensemble of London - Dvorák: Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet
Howard Shelley, Sinfonia Varsovia - Dobrzynski, Lessel: Piano Concertos
Antti Siirala - Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 109, 110 & 111
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra - Alla Borzova: Songs for Lada; To the New World
Alexander Toradze, Paavo Järvi, hr_Sinfonieorchester - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Trio Brancusi - George Enesco: Piano Trios
Hilary Davan Wetton - Beethoven: Der glorreiche Augenblick; Choral Fantasy
Stephen Eddins
Bethlehem Bach Choir - Bach: St. John Passion
Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L'Olympiade: The Opera
Het Collectief, Capilla Flamenca - 12 x 12: A Musical Zodiac
Iestyn Davies - Arias for Guadagni
Joyce DiDonato, Patrick Summers - Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn - Handel: Alceste
Exultate Singers - All Shall Be Well
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir - Bach: Motets
Patrick Hawes, Elin Manahan Thomas, Thomas Walker, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Patrick Hawes: Lazarus Requiem
Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini - 1612: Italian Vespers
Marek Janowski - Wagner: Lohengrin
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy - Life and Breath: Choral Works by René Clausen
Gustav Leonhardt - Gustav Leonhardt: The Edition
Les Passions - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Beata est Maria
Miah Persson - Songs of Schubert, Sibelius & Grieg
Piffaro - Los Ministriles in the New World
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Shostakovich: Prologue to 'Orango'; Symphony No. 4
Ulf Schirmer, Münchner Rundfunkorchester - Gordon Getty: Plump Jack
Erwin Schrott - Arias
Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, David Daniels - Handel: Theodora
Jaap van Zweden, Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Steven Stucky: August 4, 1964
Roderick Williams - Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Tit for Tat; Folk-songs
Antoni Wit, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra - Górecki: Concerto-Cantata; Little Requiem for a Certain Polka; Three Dances