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Philip Harrison
Guðnadóttir: Where to From (Deutsche Grammophon)
Music of the 2020s – a captivating new studio album from an award-winning composer [PH]
Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé
by Philip Harrison
Čiurlionis: Back to Nature (Deutsche Grammophon)
Fine performances for the Čiurlionis 150th anniversary [PH]
Ibéria: Chabrier, Debussy & Ravel (Onyx)
The distinct perfumes and colours of Spain, orchestrated in France and brought to life in Liverpool [PH]
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
A new presentation, strong and full of woe, but only partially successful [PH]
Scriabin: Orchestral Works (Deutsche Grammophon)
Outstanding Scriabin from an orchestra celebrating its centenary [PH]
Prokofiev: The Gambler (Unitel Edition)
The Gambler arrives at the Salzburg Festival [PH]
Le Grand Embrasement: Music for a Mad King (Ricercar)
Decades squandered: a look back at a troubled period in French history [PH]
2000 – An opera retrospective
by Philip Harrison
Brahms: Complete Works for Viola, Vol 1 (Challenge Classics)
Brahms and the viola: a new series explores the connection [PH]
Sparks from Ashes – Czech Song Cycles (Chandos)
A satisfying collection of songs from Czech and Slovak lands from a tenor in fine fettle [PH]
Wagner: Parsifal (Marston)
The Holy Grail available complete at last: The 1938 Met Parsifal [PH]
Looking back to a concert season 100 years ago
by Philip Harrison
JS Bach: French Suites (Da Vinci Classics)
Explore the style galant with Bach’s French Suites [PHa]
Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore (Opus Arte)
The elixir of love conquers all [PH]
Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 & 3 (Chandos)
Storgårds jumps to the beginning in his survey of Shostakovich symphonies – with mixed results [PH]
Milhaud: Suite Provençale & La Création du monde (High Definition Tape Transfers)
Milhaud from Boston in classic Living Stereo sound in an authentic reel-to-reel tape transfer [PH]
Mozart: Idomeneo (BR Klassik)
A new Idomeneo and another excellent release from Rattle and the Bavarians [PH]
Dancing in Vienna (Somm Recordings)
An invitation to the dance from a master of the lighter style [PH]
British piano quintets (SOMM Recordings)
The essence of the jolly trout in rare British piano quintet repertory [PH]
The Phoenix Opera Company
by Philip Harrison
Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan De’ Tartari (Aparté)
The buffa side of Italian Opera in the heyday of Vienna’s pre-eminence [PH]
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Richter in his prime in Beethoven from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon [PH]
Bliss: Cello Concerto (Onyx)
The first recording of the Bliss concerto in thirty years is a stunning account [PH]
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