New Release Round-up,
Digital New Release Round-Up - 27th May 2020
Though our warehouse remains open as normal, we are finding that the physical release of some key new releases is being delayed at the moment due to manufacturing hold-ups, and so we’ve put together another selection of some of the most exciting upcoming titles which are already available digitally or are being issued as download-only. Highlights include two fine Elgar albums: Nicola Benedetti, Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Violin Concerto, and Kathryn Rudge, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Sea Pictures and The Music Makers.
An Editor’s Choice in the latest edition of Gramophone (with reviewer Rob Cowan observing that ‘Benedetti shines a beam on [the Concerto's] reigning quality: sincerity’), this album has also been praised in The Guardian for the Scottish violinist’s ‘vibrant, beefy full-throttle tone’ and in The Times as ‘a dynamic personal interpretation, refreshing and convincing’. Also includes Salut d’amour, Chanson de Nuit, and a violin and piano arrangement of Sospiri.
Physical release 10th July
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Elgar: Sea Pictures & The Music Makers
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Following much-praised recordings of Elgar’s two completed symphonies and the Enigma Variations, Petrenko and his Liverpool orchestra turn to two great works for contralto and orchestra, with illustrious local girl Kathryn Rudge (who made an outstanding showing on the recent world premiere recording of Parry’s Judith and proved herself a fine Elgarian on a Somm song recital last year) as soloist.
Physical release 3rd July
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade & Russian Easter Festival Overture
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The Russian maestro has also been busy in the studio with his Norwegian orchestra as his tenure as Chief Conductor draws to a close, and this Rimsky-Korsakov triptych was praised in this week’s Sunday Times for ‘the orchestra’s rhapsodic ebb and flow’ and concert-master Elise Båtnes’s ‘beguiling’ solos in Scheherazade. Look out for Katherine’s in-depth interview with Petrenko about his time in Oslo, the challenges of this repertoire, and his thoughts on post-lockdown performance strategies next month.
Physical release 12th June
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Adès: In Seven Days
Kirill Gerstein (piano), Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra
Following the world premiere recording of his Piano Concerto (written for Gerstein) on Deutsche Grammophon at the end of February, Myrios present an earlier Adès work for piano and orchestra: the Genesis-inspired In Seven Days, premiered by Nicolas Hodges and the London Sinfonietta in 2008. The album also includes the first recordings of the concert paraphrase for two pianos from Powder Her Face, the Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel, and the Three Mazurkas from 2009.
Physical release 12th June
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The third release in the duo’s Beethoven series centres on the Spring Sonata, and also includes the early G major Rondo WoO41 and the Six German dances WoO42; previous volumes have received praise for their ‘clarity of ideas and uncluttered, conversational generosity’ (The Guardian) and ‘the instantaneous rapport and subtle, crystal-clear tonal beauty of the pair’s playing’ (Gramophone).
Physical release 3rd July
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Venezuelan soprano makes his recording debut with arias from Handel’s Atalanta, Berenice and Arminio and Gluck’s Antigono, La Corona, La Sofonisba and Il Tigrane, three of which are world premiere recordings. Mariño’s career milestones to date include prizes at the Opéra de Marseille International Singing Competition and the Gütersloh Neue Stimmen Competition, and last year he was nominated for Opernwelt’s Best New Artist award.
Physical release 5th June
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
After well-received recent recordings of Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem and Janáček choral works, Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam return to early repertoire with this collection of Lassus motets for six and eight voices, written towards the end of the composer’s life and including Vidi calumnias, Vide homo, Media vita in morte sumus, Libera me Domine and Omnia tempus habent.
Physical release 5th June
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The composer-pianist recorded these twelve new pieces on his iPhone whilst self-isolating at his home in Italy during March and April, following a series of live concerts which he broadcast on social media in lieu of a planned spring tour; he describes the project as capturing ‘the memory of those home live concerts, my memory of this time, the memory of a strange and new atmosphere that we won’t forget’.
Digital-only release.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
ORFEO 40th Anniversary Edition: Legendary Conductors
Sir John Barbirolli, Karl Böhm, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Carlos Kleiber et al
Recorded between 1951 and 1991, the repertoire here includes Prokofiev from Dimitri Mitropoulos, Bruckner from Wolfgang Sawallisch and Wilhelm Furtwängler, Tchaikovsky from Ferenc Fricsay, Beethoven from Herbert von Karajan and Carlos Kleiber, Liszt from Sergiu Celibidache, and Brahms and Vaughan Williams from Sir John Barbirolli.
Physical release 19th June
Available Formats: 10 CDs, MP3, FLAC
The great German tenor is captured in his prime here on five complete recordings of Italian operas sung in German: Rigoletto under Ferenc Fricsay, La forza del destino under Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Tosca under Wilhelm Schüchter, L’elisir d’amore under Ernst Märzendorfer, and Cavalleria rusticana under Heinrich Hollreiser. The other singers include Gottlob Frick, Gustav Neidlinger, Martha Mödl and Carla Martinis.
Physical release 12th June
Available Formats: 11 CDs, MP3, FLAC
David Smith - Head of Digital
