Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Italian elegance
Italian Perspectives (Pentatone)
Diabolically good
Sergei Prokofiev: 2nd violin concerto &c (Warner Classics)
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
The twilight of genius
Dmitri Shostakovich: The last 3 quartets (Harmonia Mundi)
A better America
American Tapestry (Signum)
