CD Review | Nadia Boulanger, La ville morte
Boulanger/Pugno: La ville morte Melissa Harvey, soprano; Laurie Rubin, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Dennis, tenor; Jorell Williams, baritone; Talea Ensemble; Neil Goren, conductor Pentatone, 2025 La ville…
Browsing: Pentatone
Lebrecht Weekly | Debussy, Messiaen: L’extase (Pentatone)
There is a line of beauty that runs through French vocal music, from Debussy to Messiaen to Boulez, which exists to the exclusion of all…
CD Review | Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Mahler: Rückert Lieder Sonya Yoncheva, soprano; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare, conductor Pentatone, 2024 Following their successful release last year on…
Lebrecht Weekly | Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn: Choral and vocal works (Pentatone/First Hand Records)
It’s not often one gets a chance to compare two composers who are brother and sister. In fact, apart from the Mendelssohns, there is hardly…
The Lebrecht Weekly: First Light – Muhly and Glass (Pentatone)
In a decade when no-one is writing new symphonies – depressed, no doubt, by Covid performance constraints – we are having to make do with…
CD Review: Mon ami, mon amour (Matt Haimovitz, Mari Kodama)
Mon ami, mon amour Works by Poulenc, Fauré, Milhaud, Lili Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger, Ravel, Debussy. Matt Haimovitz, cello. Mari Kodama, piano Pentatone Oxingale Series PTC…
MON AMI, Mon Amour – Matt Haimovitz and Mari Kodama
For Immediate Release, October 20, 2020 … The vibrant, expressive musical palette of cellist Matt Haimovitz and the graceful insight of pianist Mari Kodama meld…
Mozart: Symphonies 40 and 41 (Pentatone)
The conductor Hans von Bülow once described Mendelssohn’s music as ‘something to be got over in childhood, like measles’. I feel the same way about…
