Monthly Choices
Listen to clips from this month's best reviewed recordings
This Month's Choices
April 2012
Portico Quartet
'This disc breaks new ground, while keeping true to the group's unique soundscape'
Violin Concertos
Isabelle Faust; Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado
'Faust's limpid violin weaves in and out of the music's...
Apothéoses
Ricercar Consort/Philippe Pierlot
'Superbly stylised, from simplicity in Corelli to a gentle Lullian air'
Choral works
Collegium Vocale Gent; Orchestre des Champs-Elysées/Philippe Herreweghe
'The Collegium Vocale Gent produces a...
The Magic Flute
La Scala Theatre Orchestra & Chorus/Roland Böer
'More moving and enchanting than any other "Magic Flute...
Piano Concertos Nos 1&2, Violin Sonata
Alexander Melnikov, Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Teodor Currentzis
'Melnikov's...
Don Quichotte
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
'Gergiev whips up the score more vigorously than his...
Piano works
Dénes Várjon
'Liszt's Sonata sounds improvisatory and musingly delicate'
