Volume 35 of BR Klassik's Musica Viva series centres on the composer Rebecca Saunders, winner of the Siemens Prize in 2019 (you can read my report of the prizewnners' concert here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/06/a-terrific-evening-of-contemporary-music-shows-the-worth-of-the-ernst-von-siemens-musikpreis/] ). Saunder's Piano Concerto to an utterance to a

Nice to add a sort of semi-didactic element to a post - I've learned loads via this disc, which centres on "virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque"; the years around 1600, in other words. Billed as the "Monteverdi String Band In

Genius programming for this beautiful disc!. Our guide here is the cellist Andreas Brantelid, with the wonderful Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen (we met orchestra and conductor last Christmas on a vibrant disc called Per la notte di Natale [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/per-la-notte-di-natale-italian-christmas-concertos/] , and they are no less

SchubertAn Sylvia, D891/4. Des Fischers Liebesglück, D 933 (both arr. A. Schmalcz). Im Abendrot, D 799 (arr. Reger). Wegweiser, D 911/20. Tränenregen, D 795/10 (both arr. Webern) MozartSymphony No. 41 in C, K 551, ‘Jupiter’ Coronavirus has been responsible for quite a few changes in the Verbier