Mendelssohn Piano Concertos – Thibaudet and Blomstedt
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Variations sérieuses; Rondo capriccioso Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert…
Mayr Mass in C Minor – Hauk Conducts
Sacred Music in the Opera House: Mayr’s Mass and Mozart Motets Guild GMCD 7231 (DDD, 65:48) Johann…
Matthus: Das Land Phantásien – Orchestral Fantasy
Matthus’s Fantasy World Deserves a Wider Audience Siegfried Matthus—one suspects he gets tired of explaining he wasn’t…
Matthus: Expressionist Orchestral Works from East Berlin
Matthus from Berlin: Expressionist Urgency in Orchestral Dress The German Democratic Republic produced its share of competent…
Massenet Werther – Tagliavini and Tassinari in Italian Style
Massenet’s Werther in Italianate Splendor Ferruccio Tagliavini (Werther), Pia Tassinari (Charlotte), Marcello Cortis (Albert), Vittoria Neviani (Sophie);…
Martinu Symphonies by Ukrainian National Orchestra
# Serviceable Martinu from Ukraine The Martinu symphonies arrived late—the First not until 1942, when the composer…
Tennstedt Mahler Fifth and Das Lied
# Tennstedt’s Mahler: The Authority of Long Acquaintance The reissue of Klaus Tennstedt’s 1978 Fifth Symphony and…
Mozart Symphonies – Iona Brown and St Martin Academy
Mozart Symphonies with a Gentle Touch Iona Brown’s approach to these two Mozart symphonies—the B flat K319…
Machaut and Trouvères – Bonnardot Ensemble on Calliope
Machaut and the Trouvères: A Misleading Title for an Otherwise Captivating Journey Guillaume de Machaut et l’art…
Holmboe: Environmental Preludes and Chamber Works
Holmboe’s Environmental Elegies Vagn Holmboe’s final decade saw him turning—unexpectedly, perhaps—to nature. Not the Romantic sublime, mind…
Haydn Quartets Op. 64 by The Lindsays
The Lindsays in Haydn: Craft and Conviction These three quartets from Op. 64—written between 1787 and 1790,…
Beethoven Sonatas by Ramzi Yassa – Control Without Fire
# Yassa’s Beethoven: Control, Elegance, and the Question of Fire LISZT Six Lieder von Goethe BEETHOVEN Sonata…
Handel Coronation Anthems – Cleobury and Kings College
Handel’s Royal Music in Regal Surroundings Stephen Cleobury knows something about pageantry. After all, he’s spent decades…
Liadov Orchestral Works – Slovak Philharmonic
Liadov: Orchestral Works Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser Naxos 8.555242 [58:05] The historical irony still stings…
Handel Saul – Neumann and Collegium Cartusianum
Handel: Saul HWV 53 Gregory Reinhart (Saul), Matthias Koch (David), John Elwes (Jonathan), Vasilijka Jezovsek (Michal), Simone…
Handel Concerti Grossi by Boyd Neel Orchestra 1936-38
Handel’s Concerti Grossi Through the Lens of Pioneering Modernism Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 Boyd Neel Orchestra…
Jeffrey Lewis: Austere British Modernism Explored
# Jeffrey Lewis: Music of Austere Contemplation ASC CS CD43 • 69:10 Jeffrey Lewis belongs to that…
Handel Concerti Grossi by Adolf Busch
Adolf Busch’s Handel: Historical Splendor, Occasional Stodginess There’s something both exhilarating and frustrating about these Pearl reissues—the…
Lipatti Chopin Concerto – Zurich 1950
Ghosts and Memories: Lipatti’s Chopin and the Perils of Nostalgia There’s always something unsettling about returning to…
Lekeu Adagio with Barber and Britten
A Modest Lekeu Discovery, Indifferently Served This Pavane disc—reissued, one assumes, from an earlier album though the…
Grieg Lyric Pieces – Håkon Austbø
Grieg’s Miniature Worlds, Beautifully Inhabited The Lyric Pieces constitute one of the great ongoing projects in piano…
Nicholas Lanier: Songs by Paul Agnew Rediscovered
A Master of the King’s Musick, Rediscovered Nicholas Lanier remains one of those fascinating historical figures who…
Kusser Theatrical Overtures – Franco-German Baroque Fusion
Kusser’s Theatrical Overtures: A Glimpse into the Franco-German Baroque Crossroads Johann Sigismund Kusser—who Gallicized his name to…
Gossec Symphonies by Orchestra de Bretagne
# Gossec’s Symphonies: Germanic Form in Gallic Dress François-Joseph Gossec: Four Symphonies Symphony in C, Brook 85;…