Album Review
A much-misunderstood composer
The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim (CPO)
Album of the year?
György Kurtág: Játékok (Pentatone)
Jenufa’s body
Zlatomir Fung: Fantasies (Signum)/Stephen Sondheim: Chamber music (Bridge)
Royally good
The King’s Singers: Such stuff as dreams are made on (Signum)
Sheer sensual pleasure
Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics)
Mahler done right
Gustav Mahler: 7th symphony (BR Klassik)
Hahn and Gál: Music out of time
Two composers who stuck to their musical roots as the world turned
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
