Russian Violin Concertos: Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Glazunov

" A striking début sees a young violinist doing full justice to a work she loves… The freshness of her way with the Khachaturian is immediately striking in the chattering figuration of the opening, and she brings a rare [...]

Simply Anne Sophie

Simply Anne-Sophie has a stunning, modern cover image and includes her personal selections from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and the Mozart Concertos, as well as Beethoven's Romance, Massenet's Meditation from Thaïs, Kreisler's [...]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Great Orchestral Works

These two discs have brought together almost all the pieces conventionally used as fillers after recordings of Sheherazade. But in the absence of the masterpiece itself, this music, for all its exotic orchestration and easy [...]

Concerto veneziano: Vivaldi, Locatelli, Tartini

"All this is well caught by the rich and detailed recording, as is Carmignola . . . there's a lot of character, together with a sweet and focused sound. He's very careful with vibrato and articulation, and his rubato bends [...]

A Baroque Feast · Festin Baroque

Even people who don't normally listen to classical music seem to love the singable melodies and effervescent rhythms that characterize much of the Baroque orchestral repertoire. Certain works have become favorites of television [...]

The Best of Andreas Scholl

"Scholl quickly demonstrated his natural ease… a limpid sound, beautifully phrased, with vibrato used sparingly. Here is a musician of obvious intelligence whose voice, in someone so young, is marvellously developed, pure [...]

Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals, Etc

The popular Carnival of the Animals, described as A Zoological Fantasy, was written in 1886, originally for two pianos and a small chamber orchestra to celebrate that year's carnival. The composer forbade further performances [...]

Saint-Saëns: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 3, Etc

Fluid, elegant, and lyric, violinist Kyung Wha Chung was the first Western-style classical virtuoso to emerge from Korea. Her musical career began at the age of three. Her fame in the seventies and eighties was at the [...]

Rosseti: Concerto for Two Horns, Etc

Klaus Wallendorf and Sarah Willis are members of the Berlin Philharmonic, and they play this technically difficult music with aplomb, teamwork, and sympathy. These are not "authentic" performances – modern valved horns [...]

Piano Music of the Americas

'Szidon's outstanding 1970 coupling of the Gershwin and MacDowell concertos on CD at last. Add one of the finest Villa-Lobos recitals ever recorded and a devastating account of Ives's wrist-crippling "Concord" Sonata, and [...]

Brahms/Joachim: Hungarian Dances

'This is a magnificent release. Shaham and Erez have thoroughly absorbed a style that demands continual flexibility, playing together with such ease that it's easy to forget the art and care that have gone into achieving [...]

F.J. and J.M. Haydn: Flute Concertos & Scherzos

Pahud is a highly sensitive and accomplished player whose silken tone, faultless breath control, and exemplary good taste bring rich rewards.This is an exceptionally satisfying program of charming, unaffected music by the [...]

Follie all' italiana

This disc is a winner, the Sonatoris have unearthed exceptional material, presented with admirable virtuosity and imagination. Violinists Giorgio Fava and Roberto Falcone play with gusto and bravura. An invigorating disc. [...]

Holst: The Planets; Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

William Steinberg's Zarathustra always has been a personal favorite. Deutsche Grammophon never gave it much support because of excellent versions by Böhm and Karajan already in its catalog, but the Boston Symphony frankly [...]

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Etc

Orchestral Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine (March 2007)“Fischer always knows when to lighten the mood, or how best to judge the tension and release of a musical paragraph, and in this she is supported to the hilt [...]

Ballad for Edvard Grieg

“How hard it is to over-praise the vitality and distinction of this princely pianist… His authority and finesse are total. Finely recorded, this disc is the best possible introduction to Grieg's range and character in his [...]

J.S. Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos

"[Manze and Podger] allow the poetry of Bach's music to unfold in a comfortably measured, lucidly punctuated and eloquently inflected way." --Gramophone“Manze is a violinist with extraordinary flair and improvisatory freedom, [...]

Tartini: Violin Concertos

'Toso plays impeccably, tempering tone and vibrato in extracting every drop of the essential character of each movement... a superb recording' -- Gramophone"Tartini’s understanding of the possibilities of 18th-century violin [...]

Peacock Pie

EDITOR'S CHOICE (GRAMOPHONE)BEST BUY (CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE)'Altogether this is a wholly delectable disc of spirited miniature concertos where the composers are never let down by paucity of invention. Performances are lighthearted [...]

Bach: Concertos for Recorder

A new recording of Erik Bosgraaf, one of the most original, versatile and innovative recorder players of the moment, winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.“Erik Bosgraaf's recorder-playing is fluent and lively in fast music, [...]

Geminiani: 6 Sonatas for Cello & Continuo Op. 5

Geminiani was a pupil of Corelli, and like his teacher he limited his musical output to a small collection of orchestral and chamber works. In this set of six sonatas for cello and continuo, Geminiani follows the Corellian [...]