Montgeroult
There are some discs that go instantly onto the pile of those one wants to listen to again and again, happily, on repeat. At first sight it is surprising that this is one of them…
Walton Shostakovich
There is a commitment and intensity to the playing on this disc that is, in my view, a real step forward from the Albion Quartet’s previous series of Dvorak quartets released over the last couple of years…
Mozart arr. Schäfer
Ulf-Guido Schäfer is the clarinettist of the Trio Roseau and he is a highly skilful arranger, as well as a superb player…
Purcell – Gardiner Records
To have all these seminal recordings in one box is terrific. For many years they set the standards for Purcell recordings, vocally and instrumentally, with Gardiner being the conductor who took over from Benjamin Britten in taking the major works from the 1690s seriously…
Mozart – Lucio Silla
The problem with Lucio Silla is not that Mozart wrote it when he was sixteen – he was already an experienced opera composer – nor that it has a silly story. It doesn’t…
Heinrich Biber
Perhaps the last thing one expects from this extraordinary disc is to find that it starts with the chimes of Big Ben played on the sheng, in a piece derived from one of Telemann’s a century before that bell tolled…