For pre-2006 reviews go to http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/cddvd/cddvd.html
MARCH 2007
DVDs
Chopin Preludes (Andras Schiff)
Mozart – La Finta Giardiniera ( Salzburg)
Mozart – La Finta Semplice (Salzburg 2006)
Wagner - Tannhauser (Bayreuth 1989)
Verdi - Otello (Barcelona)
Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro (Paris)
Mozart – La Clemenza di Tito (Salzburg 2003)
CDs
Songs of FG Scott
Bach Goldberg Variations; Partita No. 5 (Glenn Gould; Obert-Thorn transfer)
Peterson-Berger (The Doomsday Prophets)
Sibelius Symphony No 2; Pohjola's Daughter (Davis)
Sadie Harrison (An unexpected light)
Roger Marsh Giraud's Pierrot Lunaire
Roger Smalley (Concertos & Scriabin transcriptions)
Haydn String Quartets (Carducci Quartet debut recording)
Schubert Piano Sonatas (Howard Shelley, fortepiano)
Kagel Duodramen; Szenario; Liturgien
Schumann complete String Quartets (Fine Arts)
Chopin & Rachmaninoff - cello sonatas
Stravinsky – Oedipus Rex
Medtner Skazki Op 8 - Op 54 (Hamish Milne)
Kirsten Flagstad (Grieg – Wagner etc)
Schubert/"James" & Schumann/"James" WandererFantasy
Schubert String Quintet etc (Raphael Ensemble)
Schubert/Kissine String Quartet in G major
Judith Bingham – Choral Music
Manchicourt - Brabant Ensemble
Schubert, Spohr etc (Lieder for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano)
Handel ‘Cello Sonatas
Berio's Piano Music
Rawsthorne Piano Concertos & Symphonic Studies
Bach Mass in B minor/Jos van Veldhoven
Buxtehude/Koopman “Wacht! Euch zum Streit gefasset macht”
Cavalli: Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
Webern: Complete Songs
Franck - Melodies
Schoenberg: Vocal works and 1st Chamber Symphony
FEBRUARY 2007
DVDs
Ponchielli La Gioconda X2
Puccini – La Boheme (Madrid)
Wagner – Lohengrin
Torroba Luisa Fernanda
Dusapin Faustus, the Last Night
Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann from Bilbao
Prokofiev – The Love for Three Oranges (Amsterdam, 2005)
Bellini - Norma (Amsterdam)
Rossini Tancredi
CDs
Xenakis Thommessen Hegdal Hvoslef (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra)
Adams Piano Music (Ralph van Raat)
Arman Piano Trio
Mahler & Handel; Lieberson & Harbison (Lorraine Hunt Liberson)
Cherkassky at Wigmore Hall
Clementi Sonatas and Sonatinas (Liz Glazer - fortepiano)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Brautigam)
Gesualdo - Madrigals Book III (Kassopeia Quintet)
Francis Pott Choral and Organ Music
Ronald Stevenson - Songs
Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verses (Susan Hamilton & Simon Woolf)
American Songs (Michaels/Buccheri)
Moondog arr Joanna MacGregor
Joby Talbot etc (The King's Singers)
English Songbooks of the 1700s
Music for the Coronation of James II
Grainger and Grieg Choral Music
Albeniz – Pepita Jimenez
JAN
Falstaff at Florence
CDs
Dutilleux (John Chen Piano)
Busoni Piano Music – 3 (Wolf Harden)
Judith Weir Songs
Bartok, Ben-Shabetaj etc (Voland Quartet - Two Pianos and Percussion)
Lex Van Delden Complete String Quartets
Havergal Brian Symphonies Nos 4 & 12
Scarlatti sonatas (Joanna Leach, square piano)
Morten Lauridsen – Choral Music
Stravinsky Renard etc
Nielsen: Chamber Works for Violin and Strings
Beethoven Sonatas Vol 4 - Ronald Brautigan (fortepiano)
Rameau Suites (Angela Hewitt - piano)
New Goldberg Variations (2nd review)
Shostakovich – Symphony No 13 “ Babi Yar ” RLPO/Schwarz
Arne Nordheim - Draumkvedet
The Essential Sibelius (BIS)
Sibelius piano works
Beethoven Op. 109-111 (Schnabel & Uchida)
Dallapiccola: a portrait
Rorem 'Cello suite & Double Concerto
Alfred Hollins organ works
Piet Swerts Chamber Music
DECEMBER 2006
DVDs
Bizet Carmen (Opernfestspiel St. Margarethen)
Malcolm Arnold (Tony Palmer TV film)
Conny Janssen Danst with Conjunto Iberiico
Strauss Elektra (Zurich)
Mozart Die Zauberflöte (Ludwigsburger Festspiele/Wolfgang Gönnenwein /Axel Manthey)
Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri revisited (copied from The Opera Critic 2002)
CDs
Bernhard Lang Theatre of Repetitions
Contemporary music from Sweden (Duo Gelland, Johannes Johansson etc)
Fuchs & Rihm (Minguet Quartet)
Higdon, Fitzell, Mackey, Gordon, DeSantis (eighth blackbird)
Elisabeth Schumann (Mozart and Viennese Operetta 1926-38)
Malcolm Arnold Edition (Decca, 13 CDs)
Malcolm Arnold (Solo Piano Music)
Mozart & Strauss (Thaous Ensemble)
William and Henry Lawes Songs
Vivaldi (The Purcell Quartet)
Nicholas Maw (Choral Music)
Riley, Donatoni, Loevendie etc (Conjunto Iberico Cello Octet)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Naxos & ARTS)
NOVEMBER 2006
DVDs
Roland Petit ballets
CDs
Schubert Holzmair/Eisenlohr (fortepiano)
Giles Swayne: Convocation
Recent Naxos releases
Bax Violin and Viola Sonatas
Ernst Toch
Tanz-Suite / Cello Concerto
Schumann's Carnaval (Dame Myra Hess)
Brahms and Schumann (John Lill)
Vaughan Williams & Gurney– A Shropshire Lad
Maulbronner Kammerchor/Jurgen Budday
Miserere Tenebrae/Nigel Short
Busoni – Songs
Elgar – Sea Pictures & The Music Makers
Landscape and Time (The Kings Singers)
Daubney Songs
Feuchtwanger (Haydn Dickenson, piano)
Carl Vine Piano Music
Brahms & Schoenberg (Trio Jean Paul)
Mahler Symphonies & Das Lied von der Erde (Bertini)
OCTOBER 2006
DVDs
Verdi Rigoletto (Liceu, Barcelona 2004)
Marc-André Hamelin on DVD and CD
Julian Bream - My Life in Music
CDs
The songs of Judith Weir
CPE Bach, Dieter Ammann & Rudolf Kelterborn (Mondrian Ensemble Basle)
Geoffrey Tozer (For Children: Bach;Mozart;Schumann; Prokofiev etc)
Brahms, Wagner and Dupré (Robert Quinney, organ)
Brahms Piano Quartets (Hamelin & Leopold String Trio)
The King's Singers (R R Bennett, J McCabe, P M Davies etc)
Roslavets Chamber Symphony
Goldstone/Clemmow (Piano Trio in B flat; Arpeggione Sonata etc)
Elgar Piano Music (Ashley Wass)
Annie Fischer (Beethoven & Schumann)
Elisabeth Lutyens: Chamber and choral works (Exaudi/Endymion)
Brahms German Requiem (Vasari Singers)
Bach Clavieruebungen (Elizabeth de la Porte)
Debussy Pour le Piano , Estampes , Preludes Bk 1 etc (Roy Howat)
Debussy Preludes (Steven Osborne)
IVES Symphonies (Litton)
Adrian Jack String Quartets (Arditti)
Ivan Fedele (music for ensembles, with solo flute and clarinet)
Hindemith, Janacek & Seeger String Quartets
Satsuki Odamura (music for Japanese traditional instruments)
Debussy early piano music (Roy Howat)
Godowsky & Beethoven/Liszt etc (David Stanhope)
John Adams violin concerto (Chloë Hanslip)
Roslavets Violin Sonatas
Shostakovich The Complete Symphonies (Oleg Caetini)
Rostropovich live in 1985 (Concertos by Elgar, Haydn and Saint-Saens)
Julian Anderson (2001-2005)
SEPTEMBER 2006
DVDs
Mozart La Finta Giardiniera (Zurich Opera)
CDs
Mikhail Shilyaev (promo CDs)
Auerbach plays Auerbach
Sacchini Oedipe à Colone
Bruckner Symphony No.7 (Barbirolli)
Will Todd
Mass in Blue
Aleksander Szram (piano) Into the 21st Century
Tanya Prochazka (Britten, Ireland, Walton and Elgar)
New Goldberg Variations (six American composers)
AUGUST 2006
DVDs
