CRITIC’S CHOICE

David Nice

Master horn-player Radek Baborak transforms even minor Mozart. His latest recording makes concertos out of one-off movements, and in between he duos deliciously with fellow horn-player Radovan Vlatkovic. The culminating Sinfonia Concertante for wind sounds like a masterpiece. Plus, after being hypnotised by Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili’s Rachmaninov songs at the Royal Opera House, I turned to her operatic excerpts disc, which confirms a versatile voice in a million, ranging from inward Rimskykorsakov to a refined Carmen and blazing Verdi drama.