New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-up - 12th May 2017
The Classical period features heavily in this week's round up, with releases of Mozart from the LSO Wind Ensemble, Haydn from pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, concert arias from soprano Sophie Bevan and Mozart's early opera Mitridate, re di Ponto starring Michael Spyres and Patricia Petibon on DVD.
A sprightly interpretation of Mozart’s intriguing Gran Partita, this release celebrates the wealth of talent in the London Symphony Orchestra’s wind section. Captured live during Sound Unbound 2015, the recording took place in the Jerwood Hall of LSO St Luke’s.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The highly acclaimed series of Haydn’s complete piano sonatas has now reached Volume 6. It opens with the most imposing of Haydn’s early sonatas, No. 11, and follows it with two from the late 1770s: nos 34 and 35. Each of Nos 36 and 43, the last two featured here, opens a new group of six sonatas, and a new world in Haydn’s compositional style.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Honegger: Le Roi David
Christophe Balissat (le récitant), Athéna Poullos (la pythonisse), Lucie Chartin (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano) & Thomas Walker (tenor), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniel Reuss
With Le Roi David, written when he was less than 30 years-old, Honegger produced one of his first great masterpieces. The oratorio brilliantly recreates a distant biblical past in a resolutely modern hybrid of Middle Eastern-influenced music.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Hyperion welcomes 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto to the label, a pianist whose fiery imagination and finesse are perfectly suited to the demands of this all-Schumann programme. Despite its unassuming title, the Humoreske is no mere miniature but a full-scale piano cycle, very much on a par with the Davidsbündlertänze.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Perfido! Concert-arias by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Sophie Bevan (soprano), The Mozartists, Ian Page
British soprano Sophie Bevan performs a sumptuous programme of concert arias by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, accompanied by The Mozartists, recently launched by Ian Page’s internationally renowned period ensemble Classical Opera as an expansion of its continuing exploration of Mozart and his contemporaries.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
As part of this year’s celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death, Concerto Melante has searched out long forgotten treasures within the Telemann opus and has unearthed two cantatas as well as three highly captivating sonatas da camera, which they present as world premiere recordings.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Gate Of Heaven: Favourite Anthems from New College Oxford
Timothy Wakerell (organ), The Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney
The anthem has always had a special place in the Anglican choral tradition and this disc celebrates the richness of this repertoire with particular Oxford connections. Well-loved favourites by William Harris are set next to works by Stanford, Finzi, and Hadley, as well as new works by Matthew Martin and Rhian Samuel.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto (DVD)
Michael Spyres (Mitridate), Patricia Petibon (Aspasia), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Sifare), Christophe Dumaux (Farnace), Sabine Devieilhe (Ismène), Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Mozart was just 14 years old when he composed this opera based on a play by Racine. This 2016 performance, led by Emmanuelle Haïm at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs Elysées, features a dazzlingly virtuosic cast led by tenor Michael Spyres and sopranos Patricia Petibon and Sabine Devieilhe, while the intense modern staging is by Clément Hervieu-Léger, a resident director at France’s most illustrious theatre company, the Comédie Française.
Available Format: 2 DVD Videos
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
