Here’s what the AMG Classical staff reviewed this past month:
Blair Sanderson
Marin Alsop, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra – Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; The Year 1941
Amar Quartet – Hindemith: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Martha Argerich – Martha Argerich and Friends Live from Lugano Festival 2011
Avi Avital – Bach
Inon Barnatan – Darknesse Visible
Barokksolistene – London Calling!
Boris Bekhterev – Scriabin: Complete Mazurkas
Alda Caiello, Prazák Quartet – Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21; Suite Op. 29
Carl Davis, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Ben Hur: MGM 1925
Colin Davis, Boston Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius: Complete Symphonies; Tone Poems
Christoph von Dohnányi, Philharmonia Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Gustavo Dudamel, Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Abdel Rahman El Bacha – Prokofiev: uvres pour Piano
JoAnn Falletta, Ulster Orchestra – Holst: Cotswolds Symphony
Gabriel Feltz, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra – Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
David Garrett – Legacy
Michael Gielen – Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Marc-André Hamelin – Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
David Hill, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Delius: A Mass of Life; Prelude and Idyll
Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Neeme Järvi conducts Saint-Saëns
Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik – Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque – Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung)
Cédric Pescia – John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes
Christoph Poppen, SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Paul Sperry – Open House: Songs Cycles by William Bolcom & Robert Beaser
Thomas Trotter, Arvo Volmer – Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony; Poulenc: Concerto for Organ
Monika Wolinska, Sinfonia Varsovia – Eugeniusz Morawski
James Manheim
Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra – Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Marin Alsop, String Fever – Fever Pitch
Stefano Bollani, Riccardo Chailly – Sounds of the 30s
Vilde Frang – Nielsen, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Chiara Banchini, Jorg-Andreas Botticher – Bach: Sonates pour Clavecin Obligé et Violon
René Bosc – Stravinsky: Les Noces
Cappella Pratensis -Johannes Ockeghem, Pierre de la Rue: Requiem
Collegium 1704 – Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae
Mirian Conti – Nostalgias Argentinas
Jeremy Denk – Jeremy Denk plays Ligeti & Beethoven
Robert Fripp, Jan Stulen, Metropole Orkest – Wine of Silence
Daniele Gatti, Orchestre National de France – Debussy: Orchestral Works
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane – Hamilton Harty: String Quartets; Piano Quintet
Jacob Greenberg – Schumann: Humoreske; Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Claes Gunnarsson, Thord Svedlund – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto; Symphony No. 20
The Hilliard Ensemble – Carlo Gesualdo: Quinto Libro di Madrigali
Michael Hofstetter; Ensemble Barock Vokal, Mainz; Neumeyer Consort – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Laudate Pueri Dominum
John Holloway, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Jane Gower – Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
Manfred Huss, Haydn Sinfonietta – Schubert: Operatic Overtures
Neeme Järvi, London Philharmonic Orchestra – Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Jasper String Quartet – The Kernis Project: Schubert
Mari Kodama – Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Piano Concerto No. 3
Carel Kraayenhof, Ed Spanjaard – Tango Royal
Yakov Kreizberg, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra – Chostakovitch: Symphonie No. 11 “L’Année 1905″
Vladimir Lande, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Symphony No. 6; Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes
HJ Lim – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Alessandro Marangoni, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concertos
Jordi Masó – Joaquín Turina: Jardins d’Andalousie
Alexander Melnikov, Jerusalem Quartet – Schumann: Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet
Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli – Vivaldi: New Discoveries, Vol. 2
New Broadway Cast -Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Alfredo Casella: Concerto for Orchestra; A Notte Alta; Fragments Symphoniques de la Donna Serpente
Phantasm – William Lawes: Consorts to the Organ
Schubert Ensemble of London – Dvorák: Piano Quintet; Piano Quartet
Howard Shelley, Sinfonia Varsovia – Dobrzynski, Lessel: Piano Concertos
Antti Siirala – Beethoven: Sonatas Op. 109, 110 & 111
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra – Alla Borzova: Songs for Lada; To the New World
Alexander Toradze, Paavo Järvi, hr_Sinfonieorchester – Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Trio Brancusi – George Enesco: Piano Trios
Hilary Davan Wetton – Beethoven: Der glorreiche Augenblick; Choral Fantasy
Stephen Eddins
Bethlehem Bach Choir – Bach: St. John Passion
Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra – L’Olympiade: The Opera
Het Collectief, Capilla Flamenca – 12 x 12: A Musical Zodiac
Iestyn Davies – Arias for Guadagni
Joyce DiDonato, Patrick Summers – Jake Heggie: Dead Man Walking
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn – Handel: Alceste
Exultate Singers – All Shall Be Well
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir – Bach: Motets
Patrick Hawes, Elin Manahan Thomas, Thomas Walker, Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Patrick Hawes: Lazarus Requiem
Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini – 1612: Italian Vespers
Marek Janowski – Wagner: Lohengrin
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy – Life and Breath: Choral Works by René Clausen
Gustav Leonhardt – Gustav Leonhardt: The Edition
Les Passions – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Beata est Maria
Miah Persson – Songs of Schubert, Sibelius & Grieg
Piffaro – Los Ministriles in the New World
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Shostakovich: Prologue to ‘Orango’; Symphony No. 4
Ulf Schirmer, Münchner Rundfunkorchester – Gordon Getty: Plump Jack
Erwin Schrott – Arias
Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, David Daniels – Handel: Theodora
Jaap van Zweden, Dallas Symphony Orchestra – Steven Stucky: August 4, 1964
Roderick Williams – Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake; Tit for Tat; Folk-songs
Antoni Wit, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra – Górecki: Concerto-Cantata; Little Requiem for a Certain Polka; Three Dances