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ONYX4035
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations


His first recording helped to establish him as one of today’s pre-eminent Beethovenians. This follow-up is , if anything, even finer. He encompasses the emotional range and contrasts in the work and is alive to its every nuance. Stunning.
-- January Gramophone
   
CHAN0755
Mozart: Duo Sonatas Vol.1


As a new Mozart series launches, a new contender emerges. Duo Amadé (Catherine Mackintosh and Geoffrey Govier) takes on the well established team of Rachael Podger and Gary Cooper. This will, as reviewer Duncan Druce points out, be close and which you go for will come down to individual preference. What you get above all from this duo is a sense of enjoyment, adding up to a warmly satisfying release. Roll on Volume 2.
-- January Gramophone
BIS-SACD-1816
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 7


For my money, Vänskä’s has been the most thought-provoking Beethoven symphony cycle since David Zinman’s (much as I also loved Jose van Immerseel’s). In this latest instalment he again offers a Beethoven reforged for today’s world. There is a pace – a push to his readings – that feels 21st century hectic. But he also knows when to throttle back – when, as it were, to appreciate life. -- January Gramophone
   
ONYX4037
Grieg/Mozart/Tchaikovsky


If, as Edward Seckerson suggests in his review, these works are widely regarded as ‘pop classics’ , this disc will make a refreshing change. Yuri Bashmet, consummate artist that he is, takes them seriously. He and his Moscow Soloists lavish interpretive care on these performances and the results are both beautiful and probing. Something of a gem.
-- January Gramophone
ONYX4033
Brahms Viola


Maxim Rysanov is one of those artists who can do no wrong at present. It’s always exciting when one watches, or rather hears, a major talent burst upon the scene and Rysanov’s rapid ascent was marked last year by his being named Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year. The viola-player is persuasive and eloquent in this Brahms programme, moving between the music’s flickering moods with fluidity.
-- January Gramophone
   
ODE1125-2D
Rautavaara


For Rautavaara completists, this will be an essential buy, containing as it does much that’s not available elsewhere. It should find a wider audience though. Rich in inspiration, fabulously sung and addictive in listening, this shows off the composer - just turned 80 – in wonderfully imaginative form. One to return to.
-- January Gramophone
CHAN0757
Purcell


Here is as fine a Dido and Aeneas as we have had for many a year. There’s not a weak link in the cast, as might be predicted with singers of the quality of Sarah Connolly’s utterly obsessed Dido, Gerard Finley’s richly sung (with just the right touch of arrogance) Aeneas and Patricia Bardon’s knowing Sorceress.
-- February Gramophone
   
CHSA5069
Holst


A neglected corner of the British canon gets the full works treatment – splendid and fulsome orchestral sound, with each of these works brought to glorious life. There was always an excitement about this kind of Hickox recording, a glee in being able to reawaken for the masses works that had unjustly been allowed to slumber. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales bring gleaming textures and a sense of mighty architecture to repertoire that shows that Holst was not just about The Planets. -- February Gramophone


 



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