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HANDEL Messiah; JS BACH Christmas Oratorio

In the last few years the Bavarian Radio Choir and its conductor Peter Dijkstra has notched up a selective discography...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2015

Take Two

The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja doesn’t toe the line. Her performances of core repertoire are emotionally supercharged: some listeners balk...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 12/2015

Ensemble Houthandel: Into The Woods

Briefly subverting ‘What shall we do with the drunken sailor?’ into a tango has to be a Good Thing in...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015

American Works for Cello and Piano

Here are the big names of 20th-century American music from an unfamiliar angle, and it’s all wonderfully played. Barber’s early...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2015

SHOSTAKOVICH The Two Violin Sonatas and Rare Chamber Works

A second ‘first’ recording of Shostakovich’s unfinished Violin Sonata of 1945? The explanation is that Sasha Rozhdestvensky and Jeremy Menuhin...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2015

SCHUBERT String Quintet

Do you want a recording of Schubert’s miraculous chamber swansong with a double bass taking the second cello part? That’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015

SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire WEBERN 6 Pieces

The first volume of Henk Guittart and his Gruppo Montebello’s series exploring the milieu surrounding Arnold Schoenberg’s Verein für musikalische...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015

SCHEIDT Ludi Musici

University students may still snigger at his name (at least in the UK), but to listen to Samuel Scheidt’s Ludici...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2015

SAARIAHO Let the wind speak

Readers may disagree, but I can’t supress the vague feeling on listening to this disc that Kaija Saariaho might just...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2015

REICHA Wind Quintets

The name’s Reicha, not Reich. Anton Reicha was born Antonín Rejcha in Prague, an exact contemporary of Beethoven, whom he...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2015

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