Channel Classics reviews
Paganini: 24 Caprices (Feng)
Ning Feng (violin) (Channel Classics)
Lento Religioso
Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (Channel Classics)
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde (Double Review)
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), et al (Pentatone and Channel Classics)
Silhouettes
Dana Zemtsov (viola), Anna Fedorova (piano) (Channel Classics)
Telemann: Essercizii Musici – Trio and Solo Sonatas
Florilegium
(Channel Classics)
Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Overture; Incidental Music; Fanny Mendelssohn: May Night, Distance, Gondola Song
Anna Lucia Richter, Barbara Kozelj; Pro Musica, Nyiregyháza; Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics)
JS Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
Ning Feng (Channel Classics)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; plus Concerto for strings and Violin Concertos
Rachel Podger (violin); Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics)
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Preludes, etc
Anna Fedorova (piano); St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra/Modestas Pitrenas (Channel Classics)
Elgar & Finzi: Violin Concertos
Ning Feng; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Carlos Miguel Prieto (Channel Classics)
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5 (Budapest/I Fischer)
Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics)
Storyteller (Anna Fedorova)
Anna Fedorova (piano) (Channel Classics)
Solomon performs Telemann
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A 'satisfying and unusual' recording of violin works by Prokofiev
Quite a double whammy, this. Not only is the programme as a whole both satisfying and unusual, but also Rosanne Philippens’s startling partnership with the excellent St Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk puts her Prokofiev Second Violin Concerto right at the top of the many recent recordings – her (Dutch) compatriot Janine Jansen’s included. This most natural of concerto recordings was made in St Gallen’s Tonhalle, which must be very fine on this evidence.