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New Release Round-Up - 20th November 2020
20th Nov 2020
Stanford’s string quintets from members of the Dante and Endellion quartets, an explosive new work for wind ensemble by Mark Simpson, a transatlantic recital from violinist Callum Smart, and Vivaldi’s long-lost pasticcio Argippo from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
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Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita
Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
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New Release Round-Up - 13th November 2020
13th Nov 2020
Sacred baroque rarities from Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse, a Christmas album from Jonas Kaufmann, Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives from Simon Rattle, and the world premiere recording of Vladimir Martynov’s Utopia Symphony.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th November 2020
6th Nov 2020
Carnival of the Animals from the Kanneh-Mason family, Brahms and Schumann from Elīna Garanča and Malcolm Martineau, Beethoven from Martin Helmchen and Andrew Manze, and Thalberg from Paul Wee.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th October 2020
30th Oct 2020
Bach from Pavel Kolesnikov, Tavener from Steven Isserlis, Vaughan Williams from Martyn Brabbins, and the final instalment of The Tallis Scholars’s complete Josquin masses on Gimell.
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 & Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd October 2020
23rd Oct 2020
World premiere recordings of Dussek’s late Messe Solemnelle and Hahn’s early opera L'île du rêve, Schumann and Klengel Cello Concertos from Raphaela Gromes, and John Sheppard’s Media vita from the Choir of New College Oxford.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th October 2020
16th Oct 2020
An eclectic debut recording from Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, Bruckner from Christian Thielemann, Beethoven from Midori, and five vivid orchestral works by Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th October 2020
9th Oct 2020
Bach in lockdown from Anna Prohaska and friends, Mozart, Schubert and Liszt from Sophie Pacini, a French song recital with guitar from Laurent Naouri, and Passiontide music by Andreas Hammerschmidt from Vox Luminis.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd October 2020
2nd Oct 2020
Donizetti from Diana Damrau and Sir Antonio Pappano, Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, Haydn from the Doric Quartet, and Brahms, Bartók and Liszt from Alexandre Kantorow.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th September 2020
25th Sep 2020
New Beethoven recordings from Angela Hewitt and Daniel Lozakovich, Cramer from Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, Bach from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion, and a 150th anniversary celebration of Vítězslav Novák.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th September 2020
18th Sep 2020
Messiaen from Mannheim, Mozart from Mühlemann, and Jamie Barton in song-cycles by Jake Heggie, with the composer himself at the piano.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th September 2020
11th Sep 2020
Respighi from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, a lockdown-inspired recital from Igor Levit, Franz Schmidt’s complete symphonies from Paavo Järvi, and Vivaldi with a twist from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Il Giardino Armonico.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th September 2020
4th Sep 2020
Peter Grimes with Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner from Bergen, lockdown Lieder from Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch, Mahler from Iván Fischer, and a boxed set of Ravel's complete works on Warner Classics.
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Britten: Peter Grimes
Stuart Skelton (Grimes), Erin Wall (Ellen), Roderick Williams (Balstrode), Susan Bickley (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), James Gilchrist (Horace Adams), Marcus Farnsworth (Ned Keene) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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New Release Round-Up - 28th August 2020
28th Aug 2020
Mahler from Vladimir Jurowski, Shostakovich from Alban Gerhardt, Mozart from Francesco Piemontesi and Andrew Manze, and Melly Still's Glyndebourne production of Rusalka on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st August 2020
21st Aug 2020
Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout & Pablo Heras-Casado, Schumann from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, vintage Elgar from America, and a French recital from oboist François Leleux.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th August 2020
14th Aug 2020
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini on DVD from Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Handel concerti grossi from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, early Beethoven from Jos van Immerseel, and Bernard Haitink’s farewell to Salzburg.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th August 2020
7th Aug 2020
Dvořák from Kian Soltani and Daniel Barenboim, Rachmaninov from Sergei Babayan, the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth's choral symphony The Prison, and a new large-scale recording project from Max Richter.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st July 2020
31st Jul 2020
Vaughan Williams and Finzi from Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Satie from Noriko Ogawa, and two new works for baroque orchestra and voices by Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning American composer Caroline Shaw.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th July 2020
24th Jul 2020
Elgar from Elīna Garanča and Daniel Barenboim, Telemann from Barthold Kuijken, an arresting debut recording from The Hermes Experiment, and three neglected British clarinet concertos from Robert Plane.
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New Release Round-Up 17th July 2020
17th Jul 2020
Nielsen from Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony, Beethoven from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, two works for voice and orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas, and a Domingo fiftieth anniversary gala from Verona on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th July 2020
10th Jul 2020
Elgar from Vasily Petrenko and Kathryn Rudge, Beethoven from James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong, and Mozart with a Cuban accent from horn-player Sarah Willis and the Havana Lyceum Orchestra.
