New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 14th December 2018
Today’s new releases include a celebration of baroque dance from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, a bel canto recital from American tenor Stephen Costello, previously-unreleased Haydn concertos from the early 1990s by Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, and a comprehensive exploration of the organs of Westminster Abbey on Priory.
Haydn: Piano & Cello Concertos
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Agniezka Duezmal
Recorded live in Poland in 1992 and 1993, these performances with the Polish Radio’s chamber orchestra receive their first release here: Argerich is the soloist in the Piano Concerto in D Hob. XVIII (followed by Scarlatti’s Keyboard Sonata K141 as an encore), and Maisky performs the Cello Concerto in C major, with two movements from the Bach Cello Suites as his encores.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Recorded in Graz last summer, Savall’s celebration of the muse of dance features Telemann’s Overture-Suite La Bizarre and an excerpt from Tafelmusik alongside Jean-Féry Rebel’s La Terpsichore, Les Caractères de la Danse and Les plaisirs champêtres.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Following recordings of the Bohemian Classical composer’s Cantata for the Coronation of Leopold II (released this April) and the first instalment of the symphonies last March, Štilec and his Czech chamber orchestra explore four of Koželuch’s early symphonies in performances prepared from the original manuscripts.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The half-brother of Clara Schumann (who was his senior by nine years), Bargiel was befriended by his brother-in-law and Mendelssohn at an early age, and went on to study with Niels Gade and Ignaz Moscheles; the five works here are attractive and well-crafted, from the youthful Octet (written in his early twenties) to the Fourth String Quartet, eventually published in 1888.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC
Donizetti is the backbone of this recital by the American tenor, whose career highlights have included Anna Bolena at the Metropolitan Opera and L’elisir d’amore at Glyndebourne and the Wiener Staatsoper; arias from both operas feature, alongside scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor, La Favorita and Don Pasquale, Bellini’s I Puritani and Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Handel: Chandos Te Deum and Chandos Anthem No. 8
London Handel Orchestra & Soloists, Adrian Butterfield
Both works here were commissioned by James Brydges, Earl of Carnavon and latterly First Duke of Chandos, who employed and housed the young Handel at Cannons House in Little Stanmore whilst the fledgling composer was going through a particularly impecunious period (he would go on to composer Esther and Acis and Galatea whilst living at Cannons); the Te Deum is a real rarity.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Zarebski: Danses galiciennes & Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra
I, Culture Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko
This live recording was made as part of the Chopin and his Europe Festival’s ‘Frozen in Time’ series last August and includes Liszt’s orchestration of Zarebski’s Galician Dances (originally for piano four hands) as well as Lutosławski’s work dedicated to Witold Rowicki and the mazurka from Stanislaw Moniuszko’s opera Halka.
Available Format: CD
Though Schubert rarely wrote for the guitar himself, many of his best-loved songs were transcribed for the instrument during his own lifetime (see Katherine’s forthcoming interview with tenor Julian Prégardien about this next week), and DuoKeMi build on this precedent with these accounts of Kellermann’s own arrangements of the Duo Sonata D574 and Arpeggione, and Mats Bergström’s transcription of the Violin Sonata D384.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Michael & Joseph Haydn: Horn Concertos
Přemysl Vojta (horn), Fabrice Millischer (trombone), Haydn Ensemble Prague, Martin Petrák
The award-winning young Czech horn-player performs Michael Haydn’s Horn Concerto in D MH53, Concertino for horn and trombone (with Fabrice Millischer) MH86 and Concertino MH134, plus his elder brother’s Concerto in D Hob. VIId.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
As well as a 90-minute recital by the Abbey’s former Sub-Organist Daniel Cook (featuring music by Bach, Handel, Parry, Howells, Walton and Vierne), this set includes demonstrations of the Abbey’s main Harrison & Harrison organ as well as the instruments of the Song School and Lady Chapel, plus in-depth notes providing specifications for all three organs.
Available Formats: CD + DVD Video + Blu-ray, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
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