Thomas Zehetmair (violin); Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
Another disc where the idiomatic orchestral playing is paramount: but Zehetmair matches Fischer in his feeling for the late-Romantic idiom, more overtly in the Second Concerto, and sometimes briskly, but always spot-on musically. Martin Cotton
Michel Portal: Baïlador
Michel Portal, Ambrose Akinmusire, Bojan Z, Lionel Loueke, Scott Colley, Jack DeJohnette 'Portal confirms himself as one of the most impressive bass clarinet and soprano sax players'
Wagner:Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Albert Dohmen, Georg Zeppenfeld etc; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir/ Marek Janowski 'This Meistersinger is imbued with incessant vitality and energy'