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Prokofiev, Sibelius: Violin Concertos

Ilya Gringolts is a player of formidable technique and considerable musical imagination, and finds congenial partners here in the vastly experienced Neeme Järvi and his Gothenburg orchestra. The Sibelius Concertio is performed with great strength and poetry . . .
Record Review --BBC Music Magazine

Ilya Gringolts is one sensational violinist. From a purely technical point of view, the playing on offer here is nothing short of astounding . . . Well balanced, vivid sound complements a release that violin fans surely will enjoy, one that confirms Gringolts' growing reputation as a hot virtuoso who's much more than just a hot virtuoso. --ClassicsToday.com

Favourite Baroque Classics

'This disc can be highly recommended as one of the best in the field' --Fanfare, USA

'This disc deserves to go to the top of the charts' --Early Music Review

'Fine performances from the Brandenburg Consort, excellent documentation. A good CD to start a Baroque collection' --Classic CD

Concertos pour Violon

Better known in Europe than in North America, Jean-Jacques Kantorow is a noted violinist who has made a transition to conducting, administration, and teaching.

Concertos for Violin features some of the most virtuosic violin concertos in the repertory by Felix Mendelssohn, Giuseppe Tartini, Jean-Marie Leclair and Pietro Antonio Locatelli

Tchaikovsky, Scriabin: Piano Concertos

BEST OF THE YEAR, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
BEST CONCERTO RECORDING OF THE YEAR, CLASSIC CD

'A major achievement' --Classic CD

“Demidenko offers a blazing yet superbly-controlled account of the Tchaikovsky No. 1. And this is the best available version of Sciabin's youthful, Chopinesque Concerto.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 *****

Bach, Handel: Harp Concertos

This unusual disc offers a high degree of listening satisfaction. That much given, this isn't a recording for the Baroque purist--only one of the six concertos for harp and strings collected on this album was actually written with the harp in mind. The remaining five are transcriptions made by Spanish virtuoso harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, who performs them all with seemingly effortless technique and infectious charisma. For most of the selections he's accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Garcia Navarro; in the case of Handel's harp concerto in B-flat major Op. 4 No. 6 (the only true harp concerto in this collection) he's partnered by Paul Kuentz and his chamber orchestra.

Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos 1 and 2

“Some may find the Borodin Trio's approach to first movements a touch wayward, but most will warm to the full-blooded Romanticism of their way with Mendelssohn. The scherzos in particular have a magical lightness; recording is warmly supportive.” --BBC Music Magazine ****

‘…the Borodins have the field to themselves on CD… the three instruments merge in exceptionally ripe, full-bodied sonority… their sound-world is in fact almost Brahmsian. Always the players emphasise the romantic heart beneath Mendelssohn’s classical façade.’ --Gramophone

Telemann: Flute Concertos

“You'll rarely hear such personality in a Baroqueconcerto soloist as the extraordinary Emmanuel Pahud exhibits here. Berlin Baroque Soloists acclimatise effortlessly to an 18th-century palette, and distinguished colleagues they make for Pahud. The flautist sets out his stall from the Andante of the succinct G major concerto (completed from a damaged source and therefore making its recording début) whose startling resemblance to the slow movement of Bach's F minor Concerto, BWV1056, seems to inspire Pahud to a lyricism of understated elegance which one often hears in the best performances of the Bach work. Indeed, it's his sensitivity to Telemann's gestural implications and ability to colour the music at every turn which makes Pahud's playing so enchanting in all five concertos.

Shostakovich: The Jazz Album

GRAMOPHONE'S CHOICE Shostakovich jazz music? Taken at face value, this CD is nothing of the sort. Shostakovich's lively and endearing forays into the popular music of his time were just that, and light years away from the work of real jazz masters such as, say Jelly Roll Morton or Duke Ellington And yet they do say something significant about Shostakovich's experience of jazz, as a comparison of these colourful, Chaplinesque Jazz Suite Suites with roughly contemporaneous music by Gershwin Milhaud, Martinu MartinJ, Roussel and others will prove. Shostakovich engaged in a particularly brittle almost Mahlerian form of parody—his concert works are full of it—and that is what comes across most powerfully here. Besides, and as annotator Elizabeth Wilson rightly observes, 'real' jazz was treated with suspicion in Soviet Russia and Shostakovich's exposure to it was therefore limited.

Vivaldi: Guitar Concertos

A delightful collection of some of the most famous of Vivaldi's Guitar Concertos, many of these being transcriptions of lute works, and some in unique arrangements for four guitars or guitars with strings. Los Romeros are of course a legendary family of guitarists, so the recording is self-recommending.