Opera & stage

Berlin Philharmonic/Kirill Petrenko Berliner Philharmoniker BPHR250561 56 mins Kirill Petrenko’s early career stint at the Meiningen Court Theatre, a place indelibly associated with Brahms, laid the f

Mathias Vidal, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau et al; Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles; Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Alexis Kossenko Alpha Classics ALPHA1193 1

Malin Broman (violin); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding OUR Recordings 9.70867 22 mins This recording comes from the premiere of Helen Grime’s Concerto in 2016, but it has taken a long

Yunchan Lim (piano) Decca 4871517 77 mins That Yunchan Lim is a remarkable pianist is self-evident in everything he plays. But let’s hope he doesn’t pay too much heed to the hype his singular talent a

Lidy Blijdorp; Tobias Borsboom Channel Classics CCS47726 65:29 mins Using the recording genre creatively is an art in itself. What can it offer that perhaps a live concert cannot? I think it allows mo

Antoine Tamestit (viola) Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble/ Marc Minkowski Naive V5266 The famous Scottish violist William Primrose made the first ever studio recording of Harold in Italy with the Bost