On the Record: May 2024
A Frenchwoman’s resurrected Faust is Recording of the Month alongside an opera-fest that includes Kaufmann’s Parsifal. Smetana, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rózsa also feature.
A Frenchwoman’s resurrected Faust is Recording of the Month alongside an opera-fest that includes Kaufmann’s Parsifal. Smetana, Stravinsky, Debussy and Rózsa also feature.
Bychkov embraces his inner Czech with a magisterial national masterpiece.
Classical music has been a lifelong passion of the veteran actor. He reveals how a chance invitation shaped his taste in music forever.
Kožená and Rattle return with a compelling program of folk song arrangements.
Another outstanding release in Bychkov's complete survey of Mahler's symphonies.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Danes complete their Prism project, Bychkov delivers a blistering Resurrection, outstanding Beethoven from Ohlsson in the mountains, and Piers Lane goes to town . . . again!
Bychkov’s dramatic instincts craft a Resurrection full of light and shade.
Bychkov's new Mahler Five puts all the others in the shade.
Norman Lebrecht suggests that the Berlin Phil's decision to bypass the record industry by establishing their own label is the reason. Not so, says Gramophone.
The Russian conductor talks to Clive Paget about how he fell in love with the music of Mahler as a schoolboy back in Leningrad in the 1950s.
A wondrous start to Bychkov and the Czech Phil’s Mahler symphony cycle.
The piano leads the field with front runners Mitsuko Uchida and Leif Ove Andsnes, but first an auspicious start to a brand new Mahler cycle.