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DEBUSSY Orchestral Wks Vol 7

For my money, there is every good reason for Debussy’s Fantaisie for piano and orchestra to establish more of a...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012

BEETHOVEN Complete wks for piano and orchestra

Unlike a certain Italian maestro’s Beethoven symphony cycle (Decca, A/11), this new set of concertos has appeared with relatively little...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2012

JS BACH Sinfonias, Sonatas and Concertos

It’s hard to imagine an eminent Baroque ensemble more temperamentally suited to the esprit of Bach’s four orchestral essays than...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2012

CPE BACH Cello Concerto No 2 TELEMANN Overture

On December 7, 1960, a repetiteur-turned-conductor who had only recently started to use the family name gave his first high-profile...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:

This Christmas Night: Contemporary Carols

The vast majority of Christmas carol CDs spend most of their playing careers providing seasonal atmosphere. Critical listening is not...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2012

Pater Noster: A Choral Reflection on the Lord's Prayer

Built upon the individual verses of the Lord’s Prayer and beginning and ending in plainchant, this enterprising collection by the...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012

La fiesta de Pascua en Piazza Navona

This project takes as its basis a Roman Easter procession in and around the Piazza Navona from the church of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2012

Deo gracias Anglia!

This seems to be the first CD devoted entirely to the glorious repertory of English carols from the early 15th...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2012

L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra

Anna Caterina Antonacci’s Cassandra in the recent Covent Garden Troyens was a performance whose appalling emotional truth I have rarely...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

No typical Italienisches Liederbuch, this. Neither Janet Baker nor John Shirley-Quirk was particularly known for this repertoire – though they’re...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012

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