Monthly Choices
Listen to clips from this month's best reviewed recordings
This Month's Choices
December 2011
Purcell: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts
Retrospect Trio
'The Retrospect Trio speak the language of Purcell as if...
Schumann: String Quartets
Doric String Quartet
'The playing has fragile pathos, volatility, exuberance and quirky...
Shostakovich: Symphonies
Nos 6 & 12
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
'Petrenko...
Handel: Agrippina
Alexandrina Pendatchanska; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/René Jacobs
'Deadly and...
Judith Weir: Choral works
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge/Geoffrey Webber
'The freshness and...
Schubert: Piano works
Shai Wosner
‘What strikes the listener is the aristocratic grace of Wosner’s...
Music Makes A City: A Louisville Orchestra Story – a film by Owsley Brown III & Jerome Hiler
'A gripping view...
Wadada Leo Smith's Organic: Heart's Reflections
Wadada Leo Smith, Brandon Ross, Pheeroan akLaff
‘The sound...
