Thomas Fasano
Jean Sibelius
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Grammophon · 4796038 · 70 minutes Both the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos can easily…
Alfred Brendel Plays Haydn
Alfred Brendel (piano) Decca · 4781369 · 3 hours 20 minutes Haydn’s piano sonatas occupy a strange and wonderful corner of…
Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4765318 · 2 hours 29 minutes Schubert’s piano music lives in a strange emotional territory…
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy (violin) & Peter Pettinger (piano) Chandos · CHAN8380 · 55 minutes Elgar’s violin music occupies this strange, intimate corner…
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow BIS · BIS2400 · 84 minutes Saint-Saëns wrote these early concertos with a kind…
Rubicon: New Releases
Joanna Kacperek (piano) Rubicon · RCD1228 · 86 minutes Joanna Kacperek has built a program around the idea that contemporary piano…
Capriccio: New Releases
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Chelsea Gallo Capriccio · C5555 · 70 minutes Johanna Senfter spent decades composing in near-total obscurity, and hearing her…
Sony: Recent Releases
Arcadi Volodos (piano) Sony · 19658879292 · 65 minutes Schubert’s so-called “Gasteiner” Sonata is a strange, sun-drenched beast — written at…
Naxos: Recent Releases
Susan Platts, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Joann Falletta Naxos · 8574735 · 79 minutes Stravinsky’s so-called “fairy tale” works occupy this wonderfully…
Mozart: String Quartets
Hagen Quartet Myrios · MYR017 · 59 minutes The Hagen Quartet plays these two Haydn-dedicated masterpieces with a warmth and flexibility…
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4864553 · 73 minutes Víkingur Ólafsson takes the Goldberg Variations at a pace that genuinely…
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon · 4745372 · 84 minutes Mahler’s Ninth has this way of feeling like…
Henri Dutilleux: Cello Solos
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano)Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan Harmonia Mundi · HMC902209 · 47 minutes Dutilleux’s cello concerto Tout un…
Prokofiev: Flute Sonatas
Brandon Patrick George (flute), Steven Beck (piano), Jacob Greenberg (piano) Profil Medien · PH18039 · 66 minutes Brandon Patrick George opens…
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Clifford Curzon (piano)English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten Decca · 4767092 · 65 minutes Few composers understood the shadow side of major…
Kevin Bowyer: Organ Solos
Kevin Bowyer (organ) Priory · PRCD1193 · 79 minutes Somewhere between a historical rescue mission and a pure listening pleasure, Green…
Igor Stravinsky
Vilde Frang (violin), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Pekka Kuusisto Warner Classics · 9029667740 · 65 minutes Beethoven’s violin concerto lives or dies…
Claude Debussy
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4837701 · 78 minutes Víkingur Ólafsson has a gift for finding the thread that connects…
Mozart: Opera Recordings
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon Erato · 2564601625 · 72 minutes Mozart wrote some of his most dazzling concert arias for…
Beethoven: Symphonies
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber Deutsche Grammophon · 4474002 · 71 minutes Few conductors have ever made Beethoven’s Fifth feel genuinely…
Murray Perahia: Gramophone Awards
Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu (piano) Sony · 88697858112 · 59 minutes There’s something almost miraculous about the way Perahia and…
Xenia Löffler
Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Harmonia Mundi · HMM90233536 · 2 hours 23…
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Sony · 19075854652 · 2 hours 13 minutes Bach’s cello suites have this uncanny ability to feel both…
Emerson String Quartet
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)Emerson String Quartet Alpha · ALPHA1000 · 72 minutes Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet…
