Since you are interested in The Edge of Light, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto Op 129 / Piano Concerto Op 54 Christophe Coin (cello) Andreas Staier (piano) / Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] An opportunity to rediscover two masterpieces played on period instruments. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Edition [10 CD set incls 'Prague' Symphony and the Requiem] Collegium Aurem, Jos van Immerseel, Jaap Schroeder, Franzjosef Maier, Mozart Trio Salzburg / etc [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2013 ] This Collection of Mozart fetaures some of the leading period-instrument ensembles and spans the oeuvre of Mozart's works. Included excellent readings of the 'Prague' Symphony and the Requiem! |
HOWELLS / WHITACRE / GRANTHAM / PIZZETTI
Requiem Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their alertness to changes of mood, whether by movement or... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Sonatas for piano and violin Op.23 & Op.30 no.2 Daniel Sepec (violin) Andreas Staier (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] "Fortunately, the players don't seem in the least bit fazed by the accumulated layers of musical history, and they give admirably dramatic performances, with all the urgency and passion Beethoven's two minor-key violin sonatas demand." *****... |
SCHUMANN
Violin Sonatas / Gesang der Fruhe Daniel Sepec (violin) / Andreas Staier (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] After his earlier Hommage à Bach album, played on the same 1837 Érard piano he uses here, Andreas Staier is joined by Daniel Sepec in a programme of considerably later works by Schumann. However, these two violin sonatas and the Gesänge der Frühe of... |
FRANCK / RICHARD STRAUSS
Sonatas for Violin and Piano David Grimal (violin) Georges Pludermache (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Nov/2000 ] two popular violin sonatas |
SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Piano works Elena Rozanova (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Selection of popular 20th Century piano works |
MAX REGER
Sonata No.2, Romanze (with Richard Strauss - Sonata for cello) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyal (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Fate reserved quite extraordinary treatment for these two sonatas for cello and piano, two first attempts at the genre that turned out to be masterstrokes - and were both disowned much later by their respective composers. |
CHARLES ALKAN
Cello Sonata Op.47 (with Liszt - Elegies, La Lugubre Gondole, etc) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "intelligently played and beautifully recorded." - Gramophone February 2002 |
ALKAN / SAINT-SAENS / GRIEG / STRAUSS / LISZT
Le Violoncelle Romantique [The Romantic Cello] (2 CDs for the price of 1) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Initiales / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2011 ] "The enthusiastic playing of Bertrand and Amoyel captures Saint-Saëns' characteristic youthful vigour and gleeful virtuosity." Classic FM Magazine |
OLIVIER GREIF
Sonate de Requiem / Piano Trio Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyel (piano) / Antje Weithaas (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] 'I have never composed so much in my life. If I ask myself the reasons for such profusion, I realise that it is because I have nothing else in my life but music. If I stop composing, I die', Olivier Greif wrote after finishing his Trio in 1998. |