CPO reviews

Rubinstein: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4

Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano); Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Robert Farkas (CPO)

Romberg: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3

Phion, Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel/Kevin Griffiths (CPO)

A Rosetti: Three Violin Concertos

Lena Neudauer (violin); Southwest German Chamber Orchestra (CPO)

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British Music for Strings

Southwest German Chamber Orchestra/Douglas Bostock (CPO)

Handel: Complete Piano Concertos

Matthias Kirschnereit (piano), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Lavard Skou Larsen (CPO)

Reinecke - Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Munich Radio Orchestra/Henry Raudales (CPO)

Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1

Friedhelm Flamme (organ) (CPO)

O Straus - Piano Concerto, Reigen-Walzer, etc

Olivier Triendel (piano); German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrucken and Kaiserslautern (CPO)

Khachaturian: Piano Concerto; Concerto-Rhapsody

Stepan Simonian; Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie/Daniel Raiskin (CPO)

Cello Concertos by Goldschmidt & Reizenstein

Raphael Wallfisch; Konzerthausorchester Berlin/Nicholas Milton (CPO)

Orpheus: Songs, Arias and Madrigals by Johnson, Draghi, Greene, Byrd, Rasi, Monteverdi, Rossi et al

Julian Prégardien; Teatro del Mondo/Andreas Küppers (CPO)

Offenbach: Pomme d'Api; Sur un volcan

Magali Leger, Florian Laconi, et al; Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens (CPO)

Weinberg: Cello Concerto Op. 43 etc

Raphael Wallfisch (cello); Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra/Łukasz Borowicz (CPO)

Handel: Almira

Emöke Barath, Colin Balzer et al; Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra/Paul O'Dette (CPO)

Bruch: Die Loreley

Michaela Kaune, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Danae Kontora, Thomas Morhr et al; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Munich Radio Orchestra/Stefan Blunier (CPO)

M Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 13 & 20; Notturno No. 1

Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Lavard Skou Larsen (CPO)

R Strauss: Piano Quartet; Piano Trio No. 2

Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal (CPO)

Ben-Haim • Bloch • Korngold: Cello Concertos

Raphael Wallfisch (cello); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Lukasz Borowicz (CPO)

Brahms: Double Concerto/ R Schumann: Violin Concerto

Antje Weithaas (violin), Maximilian Hornung (cello); NDR Radiophilharmonie/Andrew Manze (CPO)

Giocomo Puccini's La rondine

There are lovely moments in this live recording of La rondine, a curiously level-headed reworking of La traviata in which hearts are bruised rather than broken. Ivan Repušić coaxes playing with plenty of spring and succulence from the Munich Radio Orchestra. The Act II dance music is glossy and animated, but the dewy scoring at the close of Act III seems unmerited by a dry-eyed situation. Coloristic fragments such as ‘Nella trepida luce d’un mattin’ are more moving in context than ‘Chi il bel sogno di Doretta’.

Martinolli D'Arcy directs first recording of Suppé's Il Ritorno del Marinalo

First 'Voices in the Wilderness' heard loud and clear