Featured New Releases for
December 23, 2014

Florence Malgoire and Les Dominos play a version of Rameau's Concerts en Sextuor that matches his instrumentation for the théâtre lyrique.

— Blair Sanderson

Jos van Immerseel presents Orff's Carmina Burana in a historically informed version that features authentic German instruments from the 1930s.

— Blair Sanderson

Overall it's hard to escape the impression that this is the kind of chamber performance just not heard anymore.

— James Manheim

Les Arts Florissants, under Agnew, cultivate a subtle vocal blend in that turns on a dime from pure or artfully slightly flat pitch to blooming vibrato.

— James Manheim

Nikolic's performance lends itself to the search for hidden subversive messages in Shostakovich's music. This is a spookily effective effort.

— James Manheim

This is absorbing and stands up to repeated hearings, revealing something of the complex society from which it sprang. Highly recommended.

— James Manheim