Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 28th January 2022
28th Jan 2022
Haydn and Mozart from Basel, gangster tragedy in the South Polish Highlands, chamber music and songs by Martin Suckling, and arrangements of Vaughan Williams and Maconchy for piano duet.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st January 2022
21st Jan 2022
French song from Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles, the 2022 New Year's Day Concert from Vienna on CD, Schubert from Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton, and Bob Chilcott's Circlesong.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th January 2022
14th Jan 2022
Handel from Sandrine Piau, United Strings of Europe's second album Renewal, Morricone film-scores reworked for violin and orchestra, and the physical release of Florence Price's Symphonies No. 1 & 3 from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th January 2022
7th Jan 2022
Telemann from Antoine Tamestit, a transatlantic recital from Tom Poster and Elena Urioste, a tribute to a Czech horn virtuoso from Teunis van der Zwart and Alexander Melnikov, and Brahms from Michael Collins and Stephen Hough.
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New Releases from late November and early December 2021
17th Dec 2021
Chopin from prize-winning Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, Bach and Brouwer from Andreas Scholl and Edin Karamazov, Madama Butterfly starring Melody Moore, and Haydn's Die Schöpfung from Jordi Savall and his Catalonian forces.
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Christmas New Releases 2021
10th Dec 2021
Highlights from this year's crop of festive releases include recordings from The Sixteen, La Chapelle de Quebec, The Choir of King's College Cambridge, and Camerata Tchaikovsky.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd December 2021
3rd Dec 2021
Music inspired by the Kalevala from the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk, Bach from James Ehnes, Rameau's Platée from William Christie, and Winterreise from James Rutherford and Eugene Asti.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th November 2021
26th Nov 2021
Die Zauberflöte from Covent Garden with Roderick Williams and Sabine Devieilhe, Bach's Goldberg Variations from David Fray, Florence Price's Symphony No. 3 from Vienna, and Max Reger's piano concerto from Joseph Moog.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th November 2021
19th Nov 2021
Christian Thielemann's Bruckner with the Wiener Philharmoniker; big-boned Bach from Andreas Staier; a glorious selection of Mozart's wind music from the LSO; and Jeanine De Bique's fascinating album of contrasting pairs of operatic heroines.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th November 2021
12th Nov 2021
The continuation of Benjamin Alard's multi-instrumental survey of Bach's keyboard works; new music from James MacMillan; speculative Mozartian sonatas from Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Anna Szałucka and Timothy Jones; and an enchanting selection of miniatures from Renaud Capuçon and Guillaume Bellom.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th November 2021
5th Nov 2021
Bach and Handel from Sabine Devieilhe, Josquin from Graindelavoix, Brahms from Alexandre Kantorow, and Rameau's Achante et Céphise from Alexis Kossenko.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th October 2021
29th Oct 2021
Bartók from Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Phillharmonic, Chopin from Stephen Hough, Beethoven from the Chiaroscuro Quartet, and Handel arias with instrumental obbligatos from La Nuova Musica.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd October 2021
22nd Oct 2021
Gubaidulina world premieres from Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester, Mozart's Mitridate from Marc Minkowski, a musical journey through sixteenth-century Venice with Gawain Glenton and Silas Wollston, and a Franco-Spanish recital from mezzo Marianne Crebassa.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th October 2021
15th Oct 2021
Bach from Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mozart from Arabella Steinbacher, a nocturnal programme from Quatuor Ébène, and Elisabeth Lutyens from Martin Jones.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th October 2021
8th Oct 2021
Music by the Bach family from Daniil Trifonov, the Tchaikovsky symphonies from Paavo Järvi in Zurich, a 'journey between different cultures' from Philippe Jaroussky and Thibaut Garcia, and a nature-themed song recital from Renée Fleming and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st October 2021
1st Oct 2021
British solo cello music from Steven Isserlis, Beethoven from Martin Helmchen and Frank Peter Zimmermann, Canteloube from Carolyn Sampson, and Elgar from Julia Sitkovetsky and Christopher Glynn.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th September 2021
24th Sep 2021
Price from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chopin from Beatrice Rana, Buxtehude from Arcangelo, and Bellini's Il Pirata starring Marina Rebeka and Javier Camarena.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th September 2021
17th Sep 2021
Bach from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and two guest stars, opera arias from Georgian baritone George Gagnidze, Liszt from Charles Owen, and Jommelli from Ian Page and The Mozartists.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th September 2021
10th Sep 2021
Shostakovich and Ronald Stevenson from Igor Levit, Rachmaninov from Robin Ticciati, Arvo Pärt from Renaud Capuçon in Lausanne, and Bartók, Mussorgsky and Brahms from Magdalena Kožená.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd September 2021
3rd Sep 2021
Mahler, Ives and Grime from Ruby Hughes and Joseph Middleton, British oboe quintets from Nicholas Daniel, organist Anna Lapwood's first solo recording, and Strauss from François-Xavier Roth in Köln.
