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New Release Round-Up - 12th September 2025
12th Sep 2025
Vivaldi's La Gloria e Imeneo from Andrea Buccarella, a birthday greeting to Arvo Pärt from Georgijs Osokins, Songs of Passion from Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford, and an Errollyn Wallen premiere from Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton.
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Jonas Kaufmann's Doppelgänger
5th Sep 2025
The German tenor and his regular recital-partner Helmut Deutsch are on peak form in these 2020 accounts of Schumann's Dichterliebe and Kerner-Lieder, supplemented by a glimpse of a very young Kaufmann in the former cycle (and, in the case of the physical product, a DVD of Claus Guth's extraordinary staging of Schubert's Schwanengesang).
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New Release Round-Up - 5th September 2025
5th Sep 2025
Tippett's A Child of Our Time from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart's Idomeneo from Sir Simon Rattle in Munich, Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No. 5 from Edward Gardner in Bergen, and Schubert from Sandrine Piau and Quatuor Psophos.
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Mozart: Idomeneo
Andrew Staples (Idomeneo), Magdalena Kožená (Idamante), Sabine Devieilhe (Ilia), Elsa Dreisig (Elettra), Linard Vrielink (Arbace), Allan Clayton (High Priest of Neptune), Tareq Nazmi (Voice of the Oracle) Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro
29th Aug 2025
Nearly a decade after singing Didon and Énée in Berlioz's Les Troyens, Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres are reunited as the star-crossed lovers in Purcell's much more economical treatment of the same story, with a luxury supporting cast and colourful, imaginative playing from the Italian period instrument ensemble.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th August 2025
29th Aug 2025
William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds from the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bach albums from Mahan Esfahani and Isabelle Faust, and the world premiere recording of Jake Heggie's new opera Intelligence from Houston Grand Opera.
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Janai Brugger on Intelligence
28th Aug 2025
The American soprano discusses her central role in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's new opera about an enslaved woman who becomes a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil War - the world premiere recording is released tomorrow on Houston Grand Opera's new label.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd August 2025
22nd Aug 2025
A second volume of Mozart from Federico Colli, songs of the Belle Époque from Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi, Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres in the title-roles, and Haydn's The Seasons from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations.
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Giovanni Antonini on Il Giardino Armonico
20th Aug 2025
As the Italian period instrument ensemble celebrates its fortieth anniversary, its founder member and current Music Director reflects on the group's evolution - and why he believes that 'everything in Italy is theatre, for better or for worse'...
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Offenbach from Véronique Gens and other vocal highlights for the autumn
19th Aug 2025
The French tragedienne lets her hair down in operetta, with other stand-outs including Donizetti songs from Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi, a lute song recital with a difference from countertenor Reginald Mobley, and a bel canto album from Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th August 2025
15th Aug 2025
Early Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Schubert + Beethoven from Can Çakmur, British piano quintets from Peter Donohoe and I Musicanti, and Agricola from Austrian early music ensemble Beauty Farm.
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Sparks From Ashes
8th Aug 2025
Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and his husband Dylan Perez deliver wit, flair and pathos aplenty in song cycles by Antonín Dvořák, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Béla Bartók and Jaroslav Křička.
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Nicky Spence (tenor), Dylan Perez (piano)
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New Release Round-Up - 8th August 2025
8th Aug 2025
Bach, Telemann and Albinoni from Ensemble Masques, Brahms from Mikhail Zemtsov, the world premiere recording of Florence Price's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, and music from Italy, Iberia & the Black Sea from Avi Avital and friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st August 2025
1st Aug 2025
A celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th birthday, the world premiere recording of Antonia Bembo's 1707 opera L'Ercole amante, Max Reger from Jaime Martín, and a radiant collaboration between The Gesualdo Six and trumpeter Matilda Lloyd.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th July 2025
25th Jul 2025
Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and more from Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, Ginastera from the Miró Quartet, a triptych of orchestral works by Liza Lim, and a nature-themed album from Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño.
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Mozart's Clavichord from Alexander Gergelyfi and Georg Nigl
18th Jul 2025
The Austrian clavichordist and baritone explore a range of keyboard pieces, songs and arias on the soft-grained instrument where Mozart first conjured several of them into life in a remarkable recital recorded at the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg last spring.
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Gerald Finley on the First Night of the Proms
17th Jul 2025
In advance of singing Vaughan Williams in tomorrow night's opening concert, the Canadian bass-baritone reflects on his 45-year relationship with the Proms - which began with a 'baptism of fire' just hours after he arrived in London to begin his studies at the Royal College of Music in 1979...
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New Release Round-Up - 11th July 2025
11th Jul 2025
Shostakovich from Cuarteto Casals, Steve Reich's Jacob's Ladder and Traveler's Prayer, this year's summer concert from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and choral works by the Mendelssohn siblings from the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
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Tchaikovsky from Yunchan Lim and other forthcoming highlights
9th Jul 2025
The young South Korean pianist tackles Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres, Jonas Kaufmann's Doppelgänger, and Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th July 2025
4th Jul 2025
Schubert from Steven Osborne, Rachmaninoff from Alexander Melnikov and Julia Lezhneva, Handel from Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Mozart from Andrè Schuen.
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Gilbert & Sullivan's Utopia, Limited from Scottish Opera
27th Jun 2025
The duo's penultimate collaboration - a satire on British imperialism and nineteenth-century corporate law - comes up as fresh as paint in a sparkling new recording conducted by Derek Clark, with a cast headed by Neal Davies as King Paramount and Ellie Laugharne as his Cambridge-educated daughter Zara.
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Neal Davies (King Paramount), Ellie Laugharne (Princess Zara), Yvonne Howard (Lady Sophy), William Morgan (Captain Fitzbattleaxe), Richard Suart (Scaphio), Arthur Bruce (Phantis) The Orchestra of Scottish Opera & Chorus, Derek Clark
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