Monthly Archive: August 2012
PURCELL: Harmonia Sacra – Rosemary Joshua, sop./ Laurence Dreyfus, viola de gamba/ Elizabeth Kenny, lute/ Les Talens Lyriques/ Christophe Rousset, clavecin/organ/director – Aparte
Purcell, when played as well as this, is always welcome.
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Matt Ulery – By a Little Light [2 CDs] – Greenleaf Music (2 CDs)
Genre-defying music which is idiosyncratic and individualistic.
Le Havre, Blu-ray (2011)
A charming, touching film full of Kaurismäki’s deadpan actors and simple but heavy situations.
WILLIAM ALWYN: Film Music – Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/ Cond. by Clark Rundell & Mark Heron – Naxos
Depending on your age or interest in old movies, you may or may not be familiar with these movie titles.
BRITTEN: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto in B Minor; Lachrymae – Anthony Marwood, v./ Lawrence Power, viola/ BBC Scottish Sym. Orch./ Ilan Volkov – Hyperion
The performances here are as good as you get, and Hyperion has come up again with superlative sound.
Richter in Warsaw: The SCRIABIN Recital = Sviatoslav Richter, p. (1972) – Parnassus
For the Scriabinist, an indispensable recital by Svatoslav Richter surveys the master’s style from its Romantic beginnings to its ecstatic, grandiose solipsisms.
"The Denner Ensemble": Music by PHILIDOR, FASCH, REBEL, TELEMANN, BOISMORTIER, and LULLY (Mark Baigent, oboe. Rebecca Prosser, recorders. Ben Sansom, violin. Nathaniel Harrison, bassoon. Karen Glen, harpsichord. David Hatcher, bass viol.) – X5 Group
The style and panache with which it is performed and recorded lend the CD extra distinction.
TAPRAY: Six Concertos for Organ – Dominique Ferran, historic organ at Abbey St.-Croix/ Ens. Baroque de Nice/Gilbert Bezzina – K617
The star of this disc is the monster 16-foot-stops organ, originally built in 1748.
PENDERECKI: Fonogrammi; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis; De natura sonoris I; Partita; Horn Concerto, ‘Winterreise’ – Soloists /Warsaw Philharmonic/Antoni Wit – Naxos
A rewarding collection of some of Penderecki’s smaller works revisits traditions.
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major “Eroica” – Vienna Philharmonic Orch./ Wilhelm Furtwängler – Tahra
The CD layer is a slight improvement but the SACD layer is unlistenable.
Brooke Miller – Familiar – Stockfisch Records
Canadian folk singer releases album of pared-down, resonant songs.
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tenThing: Albeniz, Bizet, Grieg, Koetsier, Mozart, Piazzolla and Weil – tenThing brass [TrackList follows] – EMI Classics
The debut CD of a ten-piece all-female brass ensemble.
The Thelonious Monk Quartet: The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection – Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, et al. – Sony Legacy (6 CDs)
One boxed set to never file away.
RICHARD STRAUSS: Elektra (complete opera) – Jeanne-Michèl Charbonnet (Elektra)/ Angela Denoke (Chrysothemis)/ London Sym. Orch. and Chorus/ Valery Gergiev – LSO Live
Sound is slightly problematic, but the performance rocks.
Chad Wackerman – Dreams, Nightmares and Improvisations – self-released
Drummer extraordinaire Chad Wackerman and wunderkind guitarist Allan Holdsworth: consummate fusion.
Mordecai Shehori plays SCHUBERT, Vol. I = Four Impromptus; Piano Sonata in B-flat Major – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
Shehori renders two major Schubert staples with high expressivity and attention to the piano’s capacity for tonal beauty.
MOZART: Apollo et Hyacinthus (complete opera) – Andrew Kennedy (Oebalus)/ Klara Ek (Melia)/ Sophie Bevan (Hyacinthus)/ Lawrence Zazzo (Apollo)/ Christopher Ainslie (Zephyrus)/ Orch. of Classical Opera/ Ian Page – Linn
A clear first-choice for Mozart’s first opera.
Kirsten Flagstad Song Recital = SCHUBERT: 4 Songs; SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und Leben; BRAHMS: 3 Songs; GRIEG: Haugtussa; CHARLES: “When I Have Sung My Songs” – Kirsten Flagstad, sop./ Edwin McArthur, p. – Pristine
Pristine resurrects important post-War inscriptions from Kirsten Flagstad, once heralded as the most powerful soprano in music.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Lost Broadcasts DVD (2012)
Rare look into 1972 studio performance by a true pioneer is compelling.
Daren Burns – Fear Is Not the Natural State of Civilized People – Urban Nerds
Bassist Daren Burns and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith create post-fusion music set well outside the box.
MAHLER: Symphony No. 7 in e – Bamberg Sym./ Jonathan Nott – Tudor
A Mahler 7 that gets it all just about right.
TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA: Salve regina; Missa De Beata Maria Virgine; Missa Surge propera; PALESTRINA: Surge, propera amica mea, et veni – Westminster Cath. Choir/ Martin Baker – Hyperion
A real barn burner of Renaissance music, performed to perfection by the Westminster Choir.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
