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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the music of Francisco Coll

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the music of Francisco Coll

Kudos to Pentatone for daring to release this disc and to Kopatchinskaja and Gimeno for their indefatigable belief in Coll's music

Hope amid Tears: Beethoven Cellos Sonatas from cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Ailbhe McDonagh

Hope amid Tears: Beethoven Cellos Sonatas from cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Ailbhe McDonagh

Two vibrant, complementary recordings of Beethoven Cello Sonatas ...

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

One of the most purely beautiful recordings to come my way in some time, this acts as a salutary reminder of the genius of Dietrich Buxtehude (c 1637-1707). This is Passion music par excelllence, supplemented by offerings by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) and Lüdert Dijkman (c 1645-1717). Buxtehude, organist at the

Pasquini Revisited: score review

Pasquini Revisited: score review

This is more than a score, it is a veritable instruction booklet; students can learn huge amounts as to style, improvisation and more

Lully world premiere recording: Ballet Royal de la Naissance de Vénus

Lully world premiere recording: Ballet Royal de la Naissance de Vénus

This is the first full recording of the 1665 courtly entertainment, Ballet Royal de la Naissance de Vénus, a high-point of the genre in which, between 1657 and 1670, Lully composed full 25 ballets. King Louis XIII considered ballet a powerful political instrument; Louis XIV continued the tradition, and Lully

Stanford Piano Quintet and Fantasies

Stanford Piano Quintet and Fantasies

This is perfectly crafted chamber music, beautifully realised

Cecil Coles & Gustav Holst: Piano Music

Cecil Coles & Gustav Holst: Piano Music

Pianist James Willshire is born to play this music; and Scottish composer Cecil Coles is a real discovery

Presteigne Premieres

Presteigne Premieres

A superbly recorded and performed release: all lovers of English music should get this disc!

Schubert: Three Song Cycles

Schubert: Three Song Cycles

A fine set of performances here from Christoph Prégardien, a singer who has impressed in Schubert at the Wigmore on more than occasion (with James Bailieu here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2016/04/a-stimulating-schubert-recital-by-julian-pregardien-and-james-baillieu/] and with Christoph Schnackertz here [https://seenandheard-international.com/2015/11/christoph-pregardien-champions-lesser-known-schubert-lieder/] ). It is tremendous to have the

Brahms' Third and a magnificent Serenade

Brahms' Third and a magnificent Serenade

We have to thank Iván Fischer for his championing of this wonderful Serenade

Voyage: Christine J. Lee and Henry Karmer's exceptional journey

Voyage: Christine J. Lee and Henry Karmer's exceptional journey

After the Chandos disc of American Quintets [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/american-quintets-music-by-beach-price-and-barber/] - which included Samuel Barber's Dover Beach - it seems a good idea to use some more Barber as a launching-off point for exploration. This time, it's the Cello Sonata which, in the secure

Mozart Sonatas for Four Hands with Rados & Gerstein

Mozart Sonatas for Four Hands with Rados & Gerstein

An absolute joy: two top musicians, beautfully attuned, both to each other and to Mozart

Schumann Complete Piano Trios, plus more treats ...

Schumann Complete Piano Trios, plus more treats ...

One of the finest sets of chamber music in recent years

Mahler's Song of Lamentation: Das Klagende Lied

Mahler's Song of Lamentation: Das Klagende Lied

A valuable addition to Gielen's Mahler, and a valuable addiiton to to Das Klagende Lied's discography

The King's Alchemist: British Works for String Trio

The King's Alchemist: British Works for String Trio

Both the Hugh Wood and the Beamish are World Premiere recordings - the catalogue is now all the richer for them

American Quintets: Music by Beach, Price and Barber

American Quintets: Music by Beach, Price and Barber

A veritable cornucopia of American chamber music

A Bavarian Bruckner Three from Jansons

A Bavarian Bruckner Three from Jansons

We've met Janson's Bruckner Sixth Symphony [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/bruckner-symphony-no-6/] before on Classical Explorer. Now it's time for the Third - but "which" Third is it? The thorny question of Bruckner's revisions raises its head. Jansons has opted for

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Tiranno: Kate Lindsey at her majestic best

Just. Don't. Miss. This. One.

Mozart Momentum 1785: Leif-Ove Andsnes

Mozart Momentum 1785: Leif-Ove Andsnes

The inventive, imaginative Norwegian pianist Leif-Ove Andsnes never fails to stimulate. Here is his latest offering, and it's an absolute gem! Mozart Momentum 1785 concentrates on works from the seminal period of 1785 (and 1786) - a time when Mozart was freelance in Vienna. He had arrived in

Heart & Hereafter: The Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Heart & Hereafter: The Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

I enjoyed soprano Elizabeth Llewelyn's contributions to Chelsea Opera Group's Boito Mefitofele [https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/03/chelsea-opera-group-give-a-glorious-performance-of-boitos-mefistofele/] in 2019, in Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony [https://seenandheard-international.com/2017/10/brabbins-and-the-bbc-symphony-in-an-inspired-pairing-of-earth-and-sea/] at the Barbican in 2017 and - heart-stoppingly - as Magda in Puccini&

Virtuoso Dances: Violinist Linus Roth

Virtuoso Dances: Violinist Linus Roth

A lockdown baby, this. Forced into lockdown in Spring 2020, after a gruelling, circuitous journey back to Europe from South America (landing at a completely empty Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris), violinist Linus Roth decided to put down some of the music that lies closesto this heart. Recorded with

Reflections

This really is a voyage of listening; one is led through it, transfixed

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

More Graupner! Cantatas (and an opera)

Two beautifully complementary releases then, revealing different sides of this fascinating composer.

Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev and Myaskovsky

Vasily Petrenko conducts Prokofiev and Myaskovsky

This is a spectacularly successful series

Francesca Dego plays Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari

Francesca Dego plays Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari

A disc to cherish; a fabulously inventive coupling, and performances that glow with the energy of youth