Deutsche Grammophon
Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
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Pianist Alexander Melnikov has come up with one of the still-young year’s most compelling discs, Deutsche Grammophon releases an aural train wreck.
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Superb discs from pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and violinist James Ehnes on the viola.
Read MoreA hell-for-leather approach to Schubert has its drawbacks; for all the sheen of Juan Diego Flórez’s singing, he doesn’t always seem at home in the music.
Read MoreHindemith and Britten could hardly have asked for more committed advocates than Steinbacher, Jurowski, and the RSOB.
Read MoreConductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
Read MoreFor all the surface-y beauty of the BSO’s playing, it’s a dull interpretation of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony no. 3.
Read MoreThere have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is Víkingur Ólafsson’s Piano Works.
Read MoreThat Shostakovich left such a musical testament is, in its own way, miraculous; and it continues to speak to us with immediacy and power.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else