Mozart: Clarinet Concerto / Clarinet Quintet in A Major
The two compositions by Mozart recorded on this album are not just brilliant pièces de résistance taken from the oeuvre of an outstanding composer, they also provide two top-ranking international musicians with an opportunity to ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Stravinsky: Grand Suite From Histoire Du Soldat / Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
This lively and lovable album of Stravinsky's neoclassical and small ensemble pieces stands with the best available. The two Suites for Small Orchestra never have been better done, the opening Andante taken a bit more slowly than ...
Komponist: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 8 and 14
Beethoven raised the bar for Classical music with his Fourth Sonata. Michelangeli acknowledged the new, grand scale of the work by including it alone, like the “Hammerkavier,” on a 1970s DG LP. Young Mari Kodama from Japan doesn’t ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 10, No 1, 2 & 3
Mari Kodama continues her cycle of piano sonatas. 'What really comes across, is her affection for the music, her wish to give it time so that we may enjoy its shape, harmonies and details.'
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Szymanowski, K.: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Dvorak, A.: Violin Concerto / Romance
An intriguing coupling of Slavic violin concertos finds Marek Janowski and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin conjuring a wealth of colours and inflections from Szymanowski’s exotic orchestration. What a marvellous violinist Arabella ...
Komponist: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bartok: The Two Violin Concertos
Arabella Steinbacher’s program of Béla Bartók’s two violin concertos begins with the second from 1938, and the violin’s entry makes it seem as though she will favor muscular strength over romantic lushness; whether or not the two ...
Komponist: Bela Bartok
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2
This album together with volume 2 completes the collaboration between Julia Fischer and Pentatone. Since all works which Schubert wrote for Violin and Piano, Volume 2 will show Julia Fischer as pianist as well (in the 4-hands ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Schubert Complete Works for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1
Julia Fischer is outstanding in this recording. The three sonatas featured on this album – D.384 in D, D.385 in A minor, and D.408 in G minor – date from 1816, but despite being early works they exhibit all the characteristics ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Schubert, F.: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout' (Die Forelle)
Yes, it sounds crazy to make yet another recording of Schubert's Trout Quintet a 'reference recording', particularly given the number of really good ones already in circulation. Never mind. There is no finer performance available, ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 and 24
This is the debut album of Martin Helmchen, prize-winning 25-year old German pianist whose career received a boost when he won the 2001 Clara Haskil Competition. Though opening salvos fired by so many young pianists today ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 78, 79, 14, 49
This album, the first in Kodama’s planned Beethoven cycle, begins with the composer’s so-called “easy” sonatas. In the words of the booklet’s annotator, Franz Steiger, they represent “lyrical islands,” being less fervent or ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 / Concertone in C Major, K. 190 / Rondo in C Major, K. 373
Yakov Kreizberg launches the Sinfonia concertante in emphatic style: a no-nonsense tempo, lashing sforzando accents, a powerful forward impetus. Mozart's thrilling take on the slow-burn 'Mannheim crescendo' has an almost ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9
These are two of the most brilliant and insightful Shostakovich performances to come along in quite a while, and that's saying a lot given the excellence of the recent competition. Certainly if you're looking for this coupling, ...
Komponist: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 5
This follow-up to Julia Fischer's widely acclaimed album of Mozart's Concertos Nos 3 and 4 confirms the 23-year-old as a player of dazzling maturity and technical finish. Her tone is sweet and imaginatively coloured, her shaping of the ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Franck: Symphony in D Minor / Chausson: Symphony in B Flat Major
The Franck D minor Symphony can be a treacherous undertaking for almost any orchestra. Its highly repetitive nature sets the trap for what could be a boring, monotonous performance if not executed with a great deal of ...
Komponist: Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Charlotte Margiono: Sings Wagner
In this Wagner recital, the Dutch soprano, Charlotte Margiono, proves herself to be the Wagner heroine par excellence. The title choice points to a well thought-out concept. The three combined "romantic operas" ...
Komponist: Richard Wagner
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905'
Mikhail Pletnev's Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 excels beyond the much-hyped Rostropovich version on LSO Live, which suffers from a deadening slow, heavy tread. Pletnev's urgent pacing brings the piece in at around 62 minutes ...
Komponist: Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3
Pianist Mari Kodama performs Beethoven's first, second and third Piano Sonatas. Every development of a musical genre has its own point of departure. In Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas, this consists of the three Sonatas Op. 2, ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 4
All the works on the first volume in Pentatone’s series of Mozart’s music for violin and orchestra were composed in Salzburg during the mid-1770s. Julia Fischer, still only 22, is responsible for most of the cadenzas ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18
Recorded 26-29 April 2004 at the Doopsgezinde Kerk, Haarlem, the Netherlands, these three sonatas reveal Ms. Kodama - as part of her ongoing Beethoven project ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
