Erato
If Music: Jakub Józef Orliński (Erato)
A recital that sets up tensions, fruitful and otherwise, between voice and piano [JW]
Maria Tipo (piano): Complete Erato Recordings (Erato)
The uneven but unignorable Maria Tipo, too often let down by recording acoustics, but soaring high in Clementi and Scarlatti [JW]
Caldara: Forgotten castrato arias (Erato)
(Déjà Review) A bouquet of fine arias by a great yet underestimated composer [JV]
Dowland: Songs, Ayres and Dances (Erato)
Dowland down the ages culled from the Erato stable, which includes Virgin and EMI [JW]
Handel: Serse (Erato)
Arrestingly beautiful, sung with passion and intensity [ST]
Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets (Erato)
Two highly contrasting Octets in superb performances [JQ]
Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Cut from intimate cloth, preferring incremental, dextrous playing, exuding tenderness and relaxation [JW]
Diana Damrau (soprano): Mozart arias (Erato)
(Déjà Review) A bridge too far, too soon [RMo]
JC Bach: Opera arias (Virgin Classics)
(Déjà Review) The London Bach’s operatic output has been woefully neglected … heard here performed with precision and dramatic tension {JPJ]
Chausson: Le roi Arthus (Erato)
Heavily derivative of its Wagnerian models, Chausson’s sole opera intermittently impresses but is overlong and somehow remains unmemorable [RMo]
Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Something of a mixed bag for me [JW]
Schumann & Brahms: Piano Quintets (Virgin Classics)
I was entranced, enraptured and enthralled – you have to have this one [DJB]
Mahler: Four Movements (Erato)
(Déjà Review) I can find little to praise [RMo]
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Erato)
An enjoyably theatrical recording [SWe]
Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Clarity of texture is here combined with freshness of projection and immediacy of recording [MG]
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & Trio (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Top-notch Shostakovich [DC]
Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht (conductor): Complete Erato Recordings (Erato)
A 16-CD slab of Inghelbrecht’s 78s, LPs and live recordings impresses through its authoritative, unsentimentalised approach [JW]
Improvisata: Sinfonie con titoli (Erato)
Authoritative, intelligent and entirely successful performances [JW]
Vivaldi: Heroes – Opera Arias (Erato)
A very impressive recital of some of Vivaldi’s finest opera arias [JV]
Schubert: Piano Trios 1 & 2 (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Goes straight to the top for my recommendations of these wonderful works [TH]
Bertrand Chamayou (piano): Ravel Fragments (Erato)
An imaginative and beautifully constructed album provides a real highlight for the Ravel anniversary [DHa]
Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (Erato)
Roth andLes Siècles provide enough musical revelations to make this the top choice among stereo versions [MP]
Sibelius and Barber: Violin Concertos (Erato)
Capuçon is ponderous in Sibelius but well attuned to Barber [LW]
Ravel: Fragments for piano (Erato)
An exquisitely played and intelligently assembled bouquet for Ravel [PH]
