Watson/McGreevy/Spence/Rutherford/BBCNOW/Lloyd-Davies (Chandos, 3 CDs) / Ivanhoe, Sullivan's most important work without Gilbert, was an ambitious attempt to establish an English operatic tradition that would rival those of ...
Cangemi/Mingardo/Orchestra Mozart/Abbado (DG) / The second instalment of Claudio Abbado's Pergolesi series takes us into unfamiliar and revelatory territory. The main work is the Saint Emidius Mass, written in the wake ...
Sämann/Schoch/Mertens/Junge Kantorei/Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra/Martini (Naxos) / The Handel anniversary may be over, but recordings of his music thankfully continue to proliferate. Alexander's Feast is the latest ...
Barbican, London / Marc Minkowski's Pergolesi tercentenary concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra placed the Stabat Mater, his best-known work, alongside Pulcinella, Stravinsky's remarkable 1920 ballet, which impudently ...
Libor Novacek (Landor) / The young Czech pianist Libor Novacek's recording of the second, Italian book of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage brought him to everyone's attention when it appeared four years ago, and the ...
Marwood/Berlin Philharmonic/COE/NYO/Rattle/Adès/Daniel (EMI) / This disc essentially surveys Thomas Adès's music since 2005, though one piece, Overture, Waltz and Finale from Powder Her Face (2007), revisits and ...
Wigmore Hall, London / Born in Ukraine in 1984, the pianist Alexander Romanovsky first impinged on our consciousnesses last summer when Decca released two of his solo discs – one of Rachmaninov, the other of Schumann ...
