Latest News: Classical, Box Set Selections
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2023 29th November 2023
American countertenor Russell Oberlin's complete recordings on American Decca, the complete Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini, and the late Lars Vogt's collected recordings on Warner Classics.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - October 2023 31st October 2023
This month's heavyweights include Jessye Norman's complete studio recitals on Philips, Deutsche Grammophon & Decca, Victoria de los Ángeles's collected Warner recordings, and Bruckner cycles from Christian Thielemann in Vienna & Andris Nelsons in Leipzig.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - September 2023 27th September 2023
This month's heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete chamber music & Lieder Recordings on Decca, a celebration of Dame Janet Baker's ninetieth birthday, two collections released in anticipation of next year's Bruckner bicentenary, and a tribute to the late Nicholas Angelich on Erato.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - July 2023 26th July 2023
This month's heavyweights include Ferenc Fricsay's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, a Karel Ančerl Edition on Eloquence, a 75th birthday retrospective on Kathleen Battle, and a celebration of Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chávez.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - June 2023 27th June 2023
This month's heavyweights include two boxes celebrating Antal Doráti's legacy on Mercury, Otto Klemperer's symphonic recordings on EMI Columbia, HMV, Electrola and Parlophone, and Matthias Goerne's survey of Schubert Lieder on Harmonia Mundi.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - May 2023 30th May 2023
May heavyweights include Herbert Blomstedt's collected recordings on Decca, a comprehensive Smetana anthology on Brilliant, and Lorin Maazel's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - April 2023 29th April 2023
Two anthologies celebrating the ninetieth birthday of 'Dutch Nightingale' Elly Ameling, a fiftieth-anniversary collection of The English Concert's recordings with founder Trevor Pinnock, and Rachel Podger's complete Vivaldi recordings on Channel Classics.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - March 2023 29th March 2023
Bernard Haitink's complete studio recordings with the Concertgebouworkest, an anthology shedding 'New Light on French Romantic Women Composers' from the Palazzetto Bru Zane, and the Belcea Quartet's collected recordings on Warner Classics.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - February 2023 21st February 2023
A mammoth anthology marking what would have been Claudio Abbado's ninetieth birthday, plus the Fitzwilliam Quartet's complete recordings on Decca, a collection celebrating the varied career of pianist, conductor and Hollywood star José Iturbi, and lesser-spotted Offenbach from Opera Rara.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - January 2023 25th January 2023
January heavyweights include the Emerson Quartet's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, all of the Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings made by the The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and Simon Preston, and Jörg Demus's Bach recordings on Westminster.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2022 29th November 2022
November heavyweights include a landmark edition of Massenet's songs on ATMA, Meredith Monk's collected recordings on ECM, and anthologies celebrating Manuel Barrueco, Roger Norrington and Walter Gieseking.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - October 2022 26th October 2022
October heavyweights include two boxes celebrating Sir Adrian Boult's legacy on Decca, an anthology of Italian chamber-ensemble I Musici's analogue recordings, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's complete Lieder recordings on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - September 2022 27th September 2022
September heavyweights include a refreshed Vaughan Williams Collector's Edition on Warner Classics, Robert Levin's set of the Mozart keyboard sonatas performed on the composer's own fortepiano, and the complete sessions for Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations on Sony.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - August 2022 23rd August 2022
August heavyweights include a set of Pablo Casals's late chamber music recordings for Philips, the complete Schubert piano sonatas from Elisabeth Leonskaja, and an anthology of French baroque music from the Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - July 2022 27th July 2022
July heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete solo recordings on Decca, Reinhard Goebel's complete recordings on Archiv Produktion, a celebration of Eugene Ormandy's five-year stint in Minneapolis, and the collected works of John Adams on Nonesuch.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - June 2022 21st June 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - May 2022 24th May 2022
May heavyweights include Wilhelm Kempff's collected Decca and Polydor recordings, the Richard Hickox/Andrew Davis cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's complete Philips Recordings, and a fortieth-birthday anthology from Capriccio.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - April 2022 30th April 2022
This month's heavyweights include extensive anthologies celebrating Dimitri Mitropoulos and Kurt Masur, 150th birthday-editions of Vaughan Williams and Scriabin, and a set of recordings from Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - March 2022 23rd March 2022
March heavyweights include two Hans Knappertsbusch anthologies on Decca Eloquence, Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy's complete recordings for Columbia Graphophone. a celebration of the Ballets Russes, and a collection of solo piano works by female composers from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - February 2022 22nd February 2022
February heavyweights include French organist Olivier Latry's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, The Choir of King’s College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury's complete Argo recordings, and anthologies celebrating the legacies of Zoltán Kocsis and Blandine Verlet.
