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New Release Round-Up - 11th July 2025
11th Jul 2025by Katherine Cooper
Shostakovich from Cuarteto Casals, Steve Reich's Jacob's Ladder and Traveler's Prayer, this year's summer concert from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and choral works by the Mendelssohn siblings from the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th July 2025
4th Jul 2025by Katherine Cooper
Schubert from Steven Osborne, Rachmaninoff from Alexander Melnikov and Julia Lezhneva, Handel from Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Mozart from Andrè Schuen.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th June 2025
27th Jun 2025by Katherine Cooper
British and American music for brass ensemble from Onyx Brass and John Wilson, Kurtág's Kafka Fragments from Susan Narucki and Curtis Macomber, CPE Bach from Ryo Terakado and Fabio Bonizzoni, and Martinů from Vilém Vlček and Denis Linnik.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th June 2025
20th Jun 2025by Katherine Cooper
Haydn from Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Biber from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum from Pablo Heras-Casado in Freiburg, and fin de siècle French music from the Neave Trio.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th June 2025
13th Jun 2025by Katherine Cooper
A Pan-European programme from La Serenissima, Stravinsky and Ravel from Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, Bach from Francesco Tristano, and Brahms's clarinet sonatas (in new orchestrations by Stephan Koncz) from Daniel Ottensamer and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th June 2025
6th Jun 2025by Katherine Cooper
Debussy and Messiaen from Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida, Sibelius from Nicholas Collon and Christian Tetzlaff with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Angela Hewitt, and Haydn from the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th May 2025
30th May 2025by Katherine Cooper
Tchaikovsky from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Alpesh Chauhan, a second helping of British orchestral anthems from Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of Merton College Oxford, Ligeti concertos from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, and Anna Lapwood's eclectic new album Firedove.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd May 2025
23rd May 2025by Katherine Cooper
Purcell from Helen Charlston and Sounds Baroque, Chopin from Benjamin Grosvenor, Beethoven from Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, and Madeleine Dring from Nicholas Daniel and friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th May 2025
16th May 2025by Katherine Cooper
Bach from Benjamin Alard, Brahms from Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, Lament and Liberation from the Choir of St John's College Cambridge, and Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven & Liszt from Mariam Batsashvili.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th May 2025
9th May 2025by Katherine Cooper
Chopin from Justin Taylor, Bizet's complete songs from Cyrille Dubois and friends, early Schumann & Bruckner from Jordi Savall, and Shostakovich & Britten from Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd May 2025
2nd May 2025by Katherine Cooper
Bruckner from The Hallé and Kahchun Wong, Kurtág from Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Brahms's German Requiem from Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, and Strauss's Salome from Edward Gardner (with Malin Byström in the title-role).
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New Release Round-Up - 25th April 2025
25th Apr 2025by Katherine Cooper
Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, Shostakovich from Yo-Yo Ma in Boston, Tchaikovsky from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan, and Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th April 2025
18th Apr 2025by Katherine Cooper
Bruckner and Gesualdo from the Monteverdi Choir, a celebration of tango from French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, the complete songs of Ravel from Malcolm Martineau and friends, and Maurice Greene's 1737 oratorio Jephtha from the Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th April 2025
11th Apr 2025by David Smith
Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Daughtery from Anne Akiko Meyers, the Albany Symphony Orchestra and David Alan Miller, Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, and a recital of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi from Eleonora Buratto, the Orchestra e Coro dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova and Sesto Quatrini.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th April 2025
4th Apr 2025by Katherine Cooper
Bach's Mass in B minor from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, Ravel from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle from the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Karina Canellakis, and Schubert from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th March 2025
28th Mar 2025by Katherine Cooper
Havergal Brian's Agamemnon from Martyn Brabbins and the Orchestra of English National Opera, Dvořák and Price from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet, orchestral works by Errollyn Wallen, and Tosca from Daniel Harding in Rome.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st March 2025
21st Mar 2025by Katherine Cooper
Bach concertos from Beatrice Rana and Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a celebration of the brass band tradition from trombonist Peter Moore and the Tredegar Band, Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata from Nobuyuki Tsujii, and Shostakovich from Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th March 2025
14th Mar 2025by Katherine Cooper
Mahler from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, a recital of preludes from Jan Lisiecki, 'Organised Delirium' (built around Boulez) from Tamara Stefanovich, and the world premiere recording of Michael Tippett's final opera New Year from Martyn Brabbins et al.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th March 2025
7th Mar 2025by Katherine Cooper
An anniversary homage to Ravel from Bertrand Chamayou, Mahler's Symphony No. 3 from the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, the world premiere recording of Grace Williams's Missa Cambrensis from the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales and Adrian Partington, and Clara & Robert Schumann from Julian Bliss and James Baillieu.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2025
28th Feb 2025by Katherine Cooper
Malcolm Arnold rarities from the London Choral Sinfonia, Stephen Hough's new piano concerto 'The World of Yesterday', Khachaturian from Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the debut solo recording from South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha.