New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2019
Today's new releases include Tchaikovsky concertos from two formidable young musicians - 24-year-old American pianist George Li and 18-year-old Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich. There's also Prokofiev from Alexander Melnikov, Beethoven from Leonidas Kavakos, and the modern premiere of an 1889 opera by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes.
Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Septet
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Kavakos’s 2013 set of the complete Beethoven sonatas with Enrico Pace was described as ‘vital, joyous…among the very best’ (bbc.co.uk) and ‘a worthy successor to the four-decades-old Perlman/Ashkenazy classic’ (International Record Review); here he directs his first recording of the concerto from the violin, and joins colleagues from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Septet and a selection of folksong arrangements.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Liszt: Piano Works
George Li (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Now 24, the American pianist came to international prominence in 2015 after winning the silver medal in the fifteenth International Tchaikovsky Competition, and for his second album on Warner Classics he pairs the composer's most popular concerto with two excerpts from Liszt's Années de pèlerinage and Réminiscences de Don Juan.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
Tchaikovsky: None But The Lonely Heart
Daniel Lozakovich (violin), National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Vladimir Spivakov
A year after releasing what BBC Music Magazine hailed as 'an uncompromising debut album, and a radiant recording' of the Bach Violin Concertos on Deutsche Grammophon, the young Swedish violinist presents an all-Tchaikovsky programme which includes transcriptions of Lensky's aria from Eugene Onegin and the Valse sentimentale as well as excerpts from Souvenir d'un lieu cher and the Violin Concerto.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The first volume of Melnikov's Prokofiev series was released in 2016 and was a BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, with Gramophone describing the performances as 'representing a new level of Prokofiev interpretation'; this second instalment features sonatas Nos. 4, 7 and 9.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Brazilian pianist marks his 75th birthday (which falls today) with a selection of favourite encores, including a dozen of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, two Scarlatti sonatas, Shostakovich’s Three Fantastic Dances, and music by Paderewski, Purcell, Rubinstein, Albéniz, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Granados, Mompou, and Richard Strauss.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Recorded on the Metzler organ of Trinity College Cambridge, Volume 12 of Goode's Bach series centres on the Orgelbüchlein and includes the chorale preludes Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Von Himmel hoch and In dulci jubilo; reviewing Volume 8, Gramophone observed that 'this series is notable for the flair, clarity and spontaneity that Goode brings to this timeless music'.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The great American lutenist explores the music of the early sixteenth-century Italian composer Albert de Rippe (also known as Alberto da Ripa da Mantova), who was born in Mantua but spent much of his lucrative career in France at the court of Francis I.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Antônio Carlos Gomes: Lo Schiavo (CD)
Svetla Vassileva, Massimiliano Pisapia, Andrea Borghini, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, John Neschling
The Brazilian composer's politically-charged opera on slavery was premiered in Rio de Janeiro in 1889 and centres on the conflict between the Indians and the Portuguese in sixteenth-century Brazil; this live recording was made during the first production of the work in modern times, which was staged at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari this February.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Hans Rosbaud conducts Schumann
Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Henryk Szeryng (violin), Pierre Fournier (cello), Annie Fischer (piano), Hans Rosbaud
These recordings of Schumann's First and Fourth Symphonies and the concertos for violin, cello and piano were made between 1957 and 1962 and have been remastered from the original SWR tapes; Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier and Annie Fischer are the soloists in the concertos.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC
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