Avie Records reviews
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, etc
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (Avie)
Anna Clyne: Mythologies album review
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, Andre de Ridder, et al (Avie)
Music for a Viennese Salon
Night Music (Avie)
The Austrian Connection
Sarah Beth Briggs (piano) (Avie)
Anna Clyne • Elgar: Cello Concerto, etc
Inbal Segev (cello); London Philharmonic Orchestra/Marin Alsop (Avie)
Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet; Landler
Thymos Quartet; Christoph Eschenbach (piano) et al (Avie)
Works by Gál & Shostakovich
Briggs Piano Trio (Avie)
Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
The Brook Street Band (Avie)
Songs of Orpheus: Songs by Monteverdi, Caccini, Castello, Cima, Landi, Brunelli and Merula
Karim Sulayman; Apollo’s Fire/Jeanette Sorrell (Avie)
Illuminations: works by Britten, Debussy and Fauré
Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang; Telegraph Quartet; The Knights (Avie)
The Long 17th Century
Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) (Avie)
Beyond The Horizon
Lauren Scott (lever harp) (Avie)
Boulanger Sisters: Clairières and Mélodies Double Review
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano) (Avie) and Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Tristan Raës (piano) (Aparte)
Daniel-Ben Pienaar's captivating musical odyssey across 17th-century Europe
‘The recording is warm yet dry enough to ensure that complex contrapuntal textures never turn to mush'
Brahms – Late Piano Music
Charles Owen (Avie)
Schumann • Brahms (Briggs)
Sarah Beth Briggs (Avie)
A performance of Gál's music that focuses on the cello
Avie’s latest contribution to its burgeoning discography of music by Austrian-born Hans Gál focuses on the
Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King, etc
Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Noah Stewart (tenor), et al (Avie)
The Russian Album
Christoph Croisé (cello), Alexander Panfilov (piano) (Avie)
Dvořák • Khachaturian: Violin Concertos
Rachel Barton Pine (violin); Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Teddy Abram (Avie)
Grieg: Lyric Music
Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) (Avie)
Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn's stunning Grieg recital
‘Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn build a three-parter that makes this a very special Grieg recital.’
Fantasia: Anne Akiko Meyers performs Szymanowski and Ravel
Anne Akiko Meyers commissioned Rautavaara to compose this Fantasia, and it was one of the Finnish composer’s final pieces before his death in 2016. Like many of his later works it’s elegiac in character, with a strong, lush tonal base: a warm cushion of orchestral sound supporting the continuous solo line, which hardly has a rest after the first entry.
Adrian Chandler Performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons; Concertos for violin in tromba marina, Bassoon concertos and RV 496 & 501 performed by Peter Whelan (bassoon) and La Serenissima, with Adrian Chandler (violin).