Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 18th September 2026
18th Sep 2026
Late Brahms from András Schiff on ECM, Ferdinand Hérold's dark opéra comique Zampa on Bru Zane, Handel's Giulio Cesare from Harry Bicket and The English Concert, and a fairy-tale recital from Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th September 2026
11th Sep 2026
Enescu from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Brahms from Anna Fedorova, Verdi from Lise Davidsen, and a French Baroque programme from Mishka Rushdie Momen.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th September 2026
4th Sep 2026
Handel from Carlo Vistoli and Le Concert d'Astrée, Janáček's The Excursions of Mr Brouček from the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, Lassus from Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier, and Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers from I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2026
28th Aug 2026
Beethoven and his Italian contemporaries from the Münchener Kammerorchester and Enrico Onofri, Rameau from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and William Christie, Don Giovanni from Iván Fischer in Budapest, and Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri from Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2026
21st Aug 2026
Bruckner from Pablo Heras-Casado and Anima Eterna, orchestral works by Anthony Hopkins from Gustavo Dudamel and the Philharmonia Orchestra, a personal celebration of two great American composers from Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Joby Talbot's Sunstone performed by Conspirare under Craig Hella Johnson.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2026
14th Aug 2026
Piazzolla from Argentine mezzo Daniela Mack, the world premiere recording of Olli Mustonen's Heavenly Lights, an eclectic recital on the theme of light from Simone Kermes, and Julius Katchen’s complete Brahms recordings on Eloquence.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th August 2026
7th Aug 2026
Finnish orchestral works from Rumon Gamba in Oulu, Strauss from Gianandrea Noseda in Zürich, and the world premiere recordings of two recent American operas: Mark Adamo's Lysistrata and Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek's Breaking the Waves.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2026
31st Jul 2026
A visit to eighteenth-century Leipzig with Reinhard Goebel, Bruckner from the late Michael Tilson Thomas in Verbier, a lively collaboration between VOCES8 and Swedish barbershop group Ringmasters, and Robert Schumann from Matthias Goerne and Markus Hinterhäuser.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th July 2026
24th Jul 2026
Two new orchestral works from Joe Hisaishi, Bruckner from Nathalie Stutzmann in Atlanta, John Williams's Flute Concerto from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and a ninetieth-birthday celebration of Zubin Mehta.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th July 2026
17th Jul 2026
A Franco-Belgian recital from Elena Urioste and Tom Poster, Peter Donohoe's favourite Chopin, a Finzi triptych from the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, and Schubert from George Xiaoyuan Fu and Lotte Betts-Dean.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th July 2026
10th Jul 2026
Youthful Mahler Lieder from Joseph Middleton and friends, the songs of French chanteuse Barbara from Jessica Walker, Douglas Moore's Pulitzer-winning opera Giants in the Earth, and Goldmark and Sibelius from Sueye Park.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd July 2026
3rd Jul 2026
Piano Postcards from Sir Stephen Hough, Schumann from Adam Laloum, Berlin cabaret from Anne Sofie von Otter, and a final volume of Vivaldi bassoon concerti from Sergio Azzolini.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th June 2026
26th Jun 2026
Schubert from Paavo Järvi in Bremen, a new oratorio from British composer Edward Picton-Turbervill, Strauss from Edward Gardner and the LPO, and an exhilarating live Carmina Burana from Jader Bignamini in Detroit.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th June 2026
19th Jun 2026
Haydn from Denis Kozhukhin, Arthur Sullivan from David Webb and the Academy of Ancient Music, Debussy from Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier, and Sibelius from Jukka-Pekka Saraste in Helsinki.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th June 2026
12th Jun 2026
Bach from Mahan Esfahani and the Britten Sinfonia, Rachmaninoff from Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, a 70th birthday celebration with Sally Beamish, and a return to CPE Bach from Arte Dei Suonatori and Marcin Świątkiewicz.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th June 2026
5th Jun 2026
Copland and Walker from the LSO and Antonio Pappano, Schubert from Roderick Williams and the Carducci Quartet, Vasks from the Latvian Radio Choir, and Beethoven from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th May 2026
29th May 2026
Barber's 'Vanessa' from the National Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda, Dvořák and Wagenaar from Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Bach from Aapo Häkkinen, and microscopic Schubert from Rudolf Buchbinder.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd May 2026
22nd May 2026
Mahler's Symphony No. 3 from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, an American Dream from Barbara Hannigan in Gothenburg, Wagner's Ring Cycle from Fabio Luisi in Dallas, and Celtic nocturnes and folksongs from Barry Douglas.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th May 2026
15th May 2026
Lutosławski from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Gustavo Gimeno, Mozart horn concertos from Martin Owen and Manchester Camerata, choral works by Nico Muhly from the Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, and Charles Wood from the London Chamber Ensemble Quartet and Madeleine Mitchell.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th May 2026
8th May 2026
Elegiac Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Brahms and Dora Pejačević from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Florence Price from Ted Black & Sascha El Mouissi, and a Heine-themed recital from Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch.
