Orchid Classics reviews

Charmes (Olena Tokar/Igor Gryshyn)

Olena Tokar (soprano), Igor Gryshyn (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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A Clarinet in America

Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet); English Chamber Orchestra/Chris Hopkins (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Mozart: Gran Partita / Mark Simpson: Geysir

Mark Simpson (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), et al (Orchid Classics)
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Hymns of Love (Dmytro Popov)

Dmytro Popov (tenor); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Mikhail Simonyan (Orchid Classics)
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Caravassilis • Corigliano • Siegel - Guitar Works

Jakob Bangsø (guitar); Tallinn Chamber Orchestra/Kaisa Roose (Orchid Classics)
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Love and Death

Navarra String Quartet (Orchid Classics)
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Flax and Fire – Songs of Devotion

Stuart Jackson (tenor), Jocelyn Freeman (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Russian Colours

Camerata Tchaikovsky/Yuri Zhislin (Orchid Classics)
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Piazzolla • Schnittke • Schubert: Rondo for Violin and Strings, etc

Katherine Hunka, Nicola Sweeney (violin); Irish Chamber Orchestra (Orchid Classics)
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Reflections: Works by Falla; Marcello; Maurice et al

Huw Wiggin, Oliver Wass, John Lenehan (Orchid Classics)
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Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs: 
Works by Frances-Hoad, Zev Gordon, Hellawell et al

William Howard (Orchid Classics)
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1-5 (Goodyear)

Stewart Goodyear (piano); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Constantine (Orchid Classics)
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Grieg: Violin Sonatas (To The Spring)

Elena Urioste (violin), Tom Poster (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Schoenberg/Brahms Violin Concertos

Jack Liebeck (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Gourlay (Orchid Classics)
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Howard Skempton: Piano Music

William Howard (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I and II

George Lepauw (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Jack Liebeck rises to the challenge with aplomb in Brahms and Schoenberg’s Violin Concertos

‘This recording finds a near-perfect balance between spaciousness and detail, conveying every intricacy within a natural perspective’
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Works by Haydn, Ravel & Stravinsky

Tesla Quartet (Orchid Classics)
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The Grand Organ of Temple Church

Roger Sayer (Orchid Classics)
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 7, 18 & 32

Jonathan Biss (piano) (Orchid Classics)
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Joy & Desolation

Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet); Tesla Quartet (Orchid Classics)
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Andrew Constantine conducts Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches and Elgar's Enigma Variations

George Chadwick, best known as a director of the New England Conservatory, was several years Elgar’s senior, and an enthusiast – with reservations – for his British colleague’s music. If Elgar became the quintessentially English composer, despite being in many ways an outsider to the establishment, Chadwick could lay claim to being soundly American, exploring a budding national style in the shadow of Dvořák’s New World Symphony.

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JS Bach: St Matthew Passion

The St Matthew Passion was part of Good Friday Vespers, the biblical narrative and the chorales familiar to the congregation, and in their native language. Jeffrey Skidmore’s Ex Cathedra forces, in this recording released to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary, reflect Bach’s own practice in many respects – period instruments, soloists picked from the choir, and a fine sense of performance style.

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