Coming Soon,
John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
Highlights for early autumn include a collection of film-scores by composers including Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson on Chandos, Hans Rott's Symphony No. 1 (plus works by Rott's classmate Mahler and teacher Bruckner) from the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jakub Hrůša on Deutsche Grammophon, Telemann's solo fantasias from Alina Ibragimova on Hyperion, and operatic duets by Verdi, Puccini and Ponchielli from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Antonio Pappano on Sony.
Following their hugely acclaimed recordings of Korngold, Ireland and British string music, Wilson and Sinfonia of London celebrate the golden age of Hollywood with a programme which includes Harold Arlen's suite from The Wizard of Oz, Max Steiner's suite from Now, Voyager. Korngold's Overture for The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Franz Waxman's suite from Rebecca, and the Transylvanian March and Embassy Waltz from My Fair Lady.
Released 9th September.
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Described by his Vienna Conservatory classmate Gustav Mahler as 'the founder of the new symphony as I understand it', Hans Rott submitted the first movement of his Symphony in E major for a composition contest in 1878, where a largely hostile panel was rebuked by Rott's organ-teacher Bruckner: 'Do not laugh, gentlemen, of this man you will hear great things yet!'. The complete work is presented here alongside Mahler's Blumine and Bruckner's Symphonisches Präludium.
Released 14th October.
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Recorded immediately after lockdown, Hahn describes this project as 'my return after an extended time out of the spotlight', observing that 'rediscovering my voice felt like the time following an eclipse'; the album comprises Dvořák’s and Ginastera’s violin concertos plus Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy.
Released 7th October.
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Five years on from a recording of Images, Estampes and Children's Corner which was described as 'irresistible' by both The Sunday Times and Classical Source, Osborne returns to Debussy with a programme which opens with the Danse bohémienne from 1880 and closes with Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon, composed during the bitter winter of 1916-17 and given to the composer's coal merchant in exchange for fuel. Also includes the Suite Bergamasque, Deux arabesques and Images oubliées.
Released 7th October.
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Following her astonishing recording of the Paganini Caprices last year (described as 'inimitable, unforgettable and cherishable' by BBC Music Magazine and praised in The Guardian for the 'addictive variety, grace and insouciance' of her playing), Ibragimova continues her exploration of unaccompanied repertoire with the less technically formidable but equally inventive set of Twelve Fantasias which Telemann composed in the 1730s.
Released 7th October.
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With guests including Andrea Bocelli, Sebastián Yatra & Jon Batiste, Lang Lang's new project traces the history of music in Disney films from the 1920s to the present day, and features new arrangements from favourites such as Pinocchio, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Frozen, Encanto, and Tarzan. The pianist remarks that childhood encounters with these films 'led to my life-long love of classical music'.
Released 16th September.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Composed in 1686 (three decades before Handel's popular work on the same subject, and just a few months before Lully's death), Lully's final completed opera makes especially imaginative use of the orchestra in depicting the terror inspired by the cyclops Polyphemus and his murderous jealousy of the love between the sea-nymph Acis and the nymph Galatea.
Released 14th October.
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Insieme
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Having appeared opposite one another on Pappano's multi-awarding-winning Aida, Kaufmann and Tézier team up again for duets from operas including La Forza del Destino (which they sang together to great acclaim both at Covent Garden and the Bayerische Staatsoper), Otello, Don Carlos, Les Vêpres Siciliennes, La Gioconda and La Bohème.
Released 7th October.
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This homage to the great French-Spanish mezzo, composer and teacher (1821-1910) includes excerpts from roles which she created (Rachel in Halévy's La Juive, the title-roles in Gounod's Sapho and Massenet's Marie-Magdeleine) and operas which were dedicated to her or revised for her voice (Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila and Berlioz's arrangement of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice respectively). Also features arias from Donizetti's La Favorite, Rossini's Semiramide and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Bellini's I Capuleti, and Berlioz's Les Troyens.
Released 16th September.
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Recorded live at the Großes Festspielhaus last August, Kissin's Salzburg Festival recital was dedicated to the memory of his teacher Anna Pavlovna Kantor (who had died just a month earlier) and was hailed by BachTrack as 'something extraordinary'; his programme includes Berg's Piano Sonata Op. 1, Gershwin's Three Preludes, Kissin's own Dodecaphonic Tango, and pieces by Khrennikov, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Debussy.
Released 2nd September.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC
Encompassing folk-tunes, jazz standards and classical repertoire, the cellist's new album features his own arrangements of Myfanwy, I Say a Little Prayer and JS Bach's Komm süsser Tod, Edmund Finnis's Five Preludes, Beethoven's Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen', and Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1. Guest artists include South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, jazz pianist Harry Baker and Isata Kanneh-Mason, who joins her brother for the Beethoven Variations and pieces by Stravinsky and Mendelssohn.
Released 9th September.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
