May Reviews
We’ve also introduced extra facts, playlists and CD recommendations to enhance your listening enjoyment!
In this month’s magazine:
Disc of the Month
Pachelbel: Vespers
The King’s Singers, Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng
Signum Classics
SIGCD 198
‘Pachelbel reached the summit of his creative powers with the series of pieces he wrote for Vespers services’
Opera and Vocal Editor’s Choice Via crucis
Nuria Rial (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar
Virgin Classics
694 5770
‘Period band meets Buena Vista Social Club!’
Orchestral Editor’s Choice
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
Simon Trpceski (piano), RLPO/Petrenko
Avie
AV 2192
‘Exciting, stirring, simply sublime’
Instrumental and Chamber Editor’s Choice
Britten: String Quartets Nos 2 & 3; Three Divertimenti
Elias Quartet
Sonimage
SON 10903
‘Both spacious and triumphantly dramatic’
DVD Editor’s Choice
Sacred Music
Simon Russell Beale (presenter), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
CORO
COR DVD2
‘Smart scripts, historically detailed’
Book Editor’s Choice
The Music Instinct
Philip Ball
The Bodley Head
ISBN 978 1 84792 088 1
‘Ball unravels the knottiest problems in an accessible, almost conversational style’
Reissues
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
Hyperion (Helios) CDH 55380
Hyperion (Helios) CDH 55391
Hyperion (Helios) 55392
Hyperion (Helios) 55382
Hyperion (Helios) 55383
Hyperion (Helios)55381
‘Ohlsson belongs to nobody – except Chopin’
