This is fascinating programming: Britten's woefully under-rated Violin Concerto coupled with Bruch's famous G-<inor Concerto. What the cover doen’t tell you is that ther eis a third piece, Bruch’s In Memoriam, Op. 65. Here’s the promo video: In Leong's

This album is a snapshot of how I live in music; diversely, organically, intimately, sometimes collabroatively, sometimes solitarily, always sincerely - and anywhere, be it oncert hall or home studio This is maverick violinist Tessa Lark's statement of intent for this her latest album. Whether in an esteemed

John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London now have a long string of significant releases on the Chandos label. Previously on Classical Explorer, we posted on an all-Dutilleux disc (Dutilleux's Wolf). Over to this scepter'd isle now for some quintessnetially English 20th-century works for strings, beginning

It was the young Soloists of the Berlin Karajan-Akademie at a concert in Aix-en-Provence that re-introduced me recently to the ddelights of Beethoven’s Septet for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn (see review). Interestingly, the Wigmore Soloists in this brilliant and neautiful new disc couple it

Echoes is a vibrant journey, its contents perfectly considered, the superb performances beautifully delivered

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* Cellist Jan Vogler runs his own chamber music festival in Moritzburg near Dresden. All of his recordings with musicians from the Moritzburg Festival have received excellent reviews. The festival also formed its own Moritzburg Festival Orchestra under conductor Josep Caballé Domenech. The orchestra is made up of excellent young musicians

Michael Spyres never fails to impress. Traditional voice types of today tend to disappear as Spyres brings in ideas of teh Baroque era, when the word 'tenor' was too restrictive: : then, there was tenor-bass, baritonor, contre-ténor, haute-contre, Spieltenor, tenor and tallie, plus the most flexible of all, tenore