Nov. 2, 2012
Here’s what the AMG Classical staff reviewed in the past month:
Blair Sanderson
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
ALIAS Chamber Ensemble - Boiling Point: Music of Kenji Bunch
Marin Alsop - Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - Beethoven for All: The Symphonies
Alessio Bax - Alessio Bax plays Brahms
Rafal Blechacz - Rafał Blechacz Plays Debussy & Szymanowski
Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Harding - Brahms, Berg: Violin Concertos
Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel - Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 5
Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Matthew Halls, Retrospect Ensemble - Bach: Harpsichord Concertos
Daniel Hope, André de Ridder - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Leila Josefowicz, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Salonen: Out of Nowhere - Violin Concerto; Nyx
Kim Kashkashian - György Kurtág, György Ligeti: Music for Viola
Dmitri Kitayenko - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1; Snow Maiden (Excerpts)
Lang Lang - The Chopin Album
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Le Paris des Romantiques
Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble - Schubert: Complete Symphonies
Sergei Nakariakov - Widmung
Sakari Oramo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 "Wagner Symphony"
Antonio Pappano, Mario Brunello - Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Cello Concerto
Leah Partridge - Finding Home
Daniel-Ben Pienaar - Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: 24 Préludes; Nocturnes; Mazurkas; Scherzo
Leonard Slatkin, Orchestre National de Lyon - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Markus Stenz, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Vogler Quartet - Schulhoff
John Wilson - That's Entertainment! A Celebration of the MGM Film Musical
James Manheim
Miriam Allan, Ironwood - Purcell: Music for a While; If Love's a Sweet Passion; Fairest Isle; Handel: Silete Venti
L'Arte dell'Arco, Frederico Guglielmo - Vivaldi: Mandolin & Lute Concertos
Alison Balsom, The English Concert, Tevor Pinnock - Sound the Trumpet: Royal Music of Purcell & Handel
Bang on a Can - Big, Beautiful, Dark and Scary
Cantate Chamber Singers, Maryland State Boychoir, Gisèle Becker - Andrew Earle Simpson: A Crown of Stars; Alfred Schnittke: Requiem
eighth blackbird - Meanwhile
Gitarren-Duo Klaus & Rainer Feldmann - Bach in Köthen
Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch - Hymns, Psalms & Lamentations
Boris Giltburg - Prokofiev: War Sonatas
Evelyn Glennie - Ecstatic Drumbeat
Goeyvaerts String Trio - String Trios from the East
Ann Hallenberg, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi - Arias for Marietta Marcolini: Rossini's First Muse
Angela Hewitt - Debussy: Suite bergamasque; Children's Corner; Pour le piano; Masques; L'isle joyeuse; Deux Arabesques
Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski - Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Steven Isserlis, Thomas Adès - Lieux retrouvés
René Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - Mozart: La Finta Giardiniera
Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - Bach: Johannes-Passion
Leipziger Klavierquartett - Salomon Jadassohn, Felix Mendelssohn & Robert Schumann
London Baroque - The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century France
Mandelring Quartett - Mendelssohn: Complete Chamber Music for Strings, Vol. 1
Takae Ohnishi - Bach: Goldberg Variations
Jorge Federico Osorio - Salón Mexicano
Itzhak Perlman - Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul
Maria João Pires, Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27
Mayke Rademakers, Matthijs Verschoor - Rachmaninov, Shostakovich: The Sonatas
Los Romeros - Christmas with Los Romeros
Maxim Rysanov, Kristine Blaumane, Jacob Katsnelson - Beethoven
Midori Seiler, Jos van Immerseel - Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin & Piano
Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan - Bach: Cantatas, Vol. 48
Trio Mondrian - Ravel, Shostakovich: Piano Trios
Triple Forte - Ravel, Shostakovich, Ives: Piano Trios
Vokalakademie Berlin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Vespro della Beata Vergine