Coming Soon,
Oklahoma! from John Wilson and other forthcoming highlights
Sierra Boggess and Nathaniel Hackmann head the cast on John Wilson's complete recording of Rodger & Hammerstein's 1943 musical with Sinfonia of London, with other early autumn highlights including a recital of works for unaccompanied violin from Isabelle Faust, Anna Lapwood's first full-length album on Sony, Dvořák from Boris Giltburg & one half of the Pavel Haas Quartet, and an early Baroque programme (featuring ten first recordings) from Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d'Oro.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Nathaniel Hackmann (Curly), Sierra Boggess (Laurey), Rodney Earl Clarke (Jud Fry), Jamie Parker (Will Parker), Louise Dearman (Ado Annie), Sandra Marvin (Aunt Eller), Nadim Naaman (Ali Hakim), Leo Roberts (Andrew Carnes); Oklahoma! Ensemble, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
This world premiere recording of Oklahoma! in all its uncut glory (including the extensive dream-ballet sequence which closes Act One) presents Robert Russell Bennett's orchestrations for the original production in 1943. Wilson's Proms performance of this version of the score in 2017 was described as 'impeccably stylish' by The Guardian, whilst The Independent remarked that the work 'has never sounded fresher or fuller than it did here'.
Released 15th September.
Available Formats: 2 SACDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Dvořák: The Complete Piano Trios
Veronika Jarůšková (violin), Peter Jarůšek (cello), Boris Giltburg (piano)
Six years on from their Gramophone Award-winning recording of the Dvořák Piano Quintet, the Pavel Haas Quartet's first violinist and cellist reunite with Boris Giltburg for the composer's four piano trios, written between 1875 and 1891. The PHQ's accounts of Dvořák's String Quartets Nos. 12 & 13 were also widely acclaimed: the album won Recording of the Year at the 2011 Gramophone Awards and was Building A Library's top recommendation for the 'American' Quartet that same year.
Released 22nd September.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
There's a Locatelli album with Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini to come first, but late October brings what promises to be a beguiling programme of Baroque works for solo violin from Faust, featuring music by Matteis, Pisendel, Biber, Guillemain & Vilsmayr. Her last studio foray into unaccompanied repertoire was a recording of Bach's sonatas and partitas which was awarded a Diapason d'Or de l'Année and prompted The Guardian to hail her as the 'most immaculate and intelligent of today's violinists'.
Released 20th October.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Hot on the heels of his recording of Mozart violin sonatas with Kit Armstrong, Capuçon directs the complete concertos from the violin with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (of which he has been Artistic Director since 2021). Recorded last September at Lausanne’s Théâtre de Beaulieu, the double album also includes the Rondo in C major K373 and Adagio in E major K261.
Released 29th September.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Parry: Scenes from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
Sarah Fox (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus, William Vann
Commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival (Gloucester) in 1880, Parry's Wagner-influenced Shelley setting was described by the critic Henry Cope Colles as displaying 'a sense of forceful declamation which English music had not known since Purcell', whilst the musicologist Ernest Walker declared that its premiere could reasonably stand as 'a definite birthday for modern English music.' This is the work's first-ever recording, following Vann & Co.'s Gramophone Award-nominated premiere of the composer's Judith in 2020.
Released 8th September.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Recorded live at the Barbican last September, this is the third instalment of Rattle's Bruckner series using Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs's Urtext edition; reviewing the performance, BachTrack detected 'a freshness to the playing which perhaps reflected the most recent text' and concluded that 'the abiding impression was of another Rattle Bruckner performance of power and eloquence'.
Released 22nd September.
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Founded in 1976, the Emersons will give their final performance in October, having decided to disband in order to focus on teaching and solo work; their studio swan-song features Hindemith's rarely-recorded song-cycle Melancholie, Berg's String Quartet from 1910, Chausson's Chanson perpétuelle, and Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor.
Released 8th September.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Inspired by the night skies of Zambia (where she spends time teaching each year), Lapwood's first full-length album for Sony includes transcriptions of favourites such as Debussy's Clair de lune, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 as well as new works by composers including Ghislaine Reece-Trapp, Olivia Belli, Kristina Arakelyan, and Ēriks Ešenvalds & Sara Teasdale.
Release 29th September.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
This is the world premiere recording of Saint-Saëns's 1870 song-cycle Mélodies Persanes (which draws inspiration from poetry by Attar, Khayyam and Hafiz) in a new edition by Palazzetto Bru Zane; this version incorporates two short interludes from Nuit Persane. The album also includes Ravel's Shéhérazade and Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été; Lemieux's recent performance of the latter work in Paris was described as 'exemplary' by BachTrack.
Released 29th September.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Researched and curated by the bass-baritone and musicologist Yannis François, Orliński's fourth solo recording with Il Pomo d'Oro focuses on the early Baroque period and features ten world premiere recordings. The repertoire includes arias by Monteverdi, Caccini, Frescobaldi and Kapsberger, plus works by several less familiar composers: Claudio Saracini, Giorgio Netti and Polish polymath Adam Jarzębski.
Released 6th October.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde
Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Prince Raphaël), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Casimir); London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel
Premiered in 1869, Offenbach's opéra bouffe centring on a travelling fun-fair features a prince who falls in love with a waxwork (shades of Hoffmann and Olympia here!) only to discover that she's a living, breathing woman. Reviewing Opera Rara's concert-staging at Queen Elizabeth Hall last autumn, The Guardian's Tim Ashley noted that 'the score is delightful, with some brilliant numbers' and praised the 'great brio and panache' of Daniel's conducting.
Released 22nd September.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
