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New Release Round-Up - 6th March 2020
6th Mar 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Franck from Nikolai Lugansky, Bach Toccatas from Masaaki Suzuki, a Roman pilgrimage with The Sixteen, and a dramatic Lieder recital from Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2020
28th Feb 2020by Katherine Cooper
Schoenberg from Isabelle Faust and friends, Beethoven from the Capuçon Brothers and Frank Braley, Offenbach’s Spanish operetta Maître Péronilla, and an all-star Porgy & Bess from the Metropolitan Opera.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st February 2020
21st Feb 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Chopin from Benjamin Grosvenor, Dvořák and Copland from Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, Farrenc from Christoph König and the Solistes Européens Luxembourg, and a boxed set of Karajan recordings from Decca.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2020
14th Feb 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, Sibelius from Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Schumann, Poulenc and Zemlinsky from German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Hasse and Lady Gaga from Simone Kermes.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th February 2020
7th Feb 2020by Chris O'Reilly
The St Matthew Passion from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Sibelius from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and Elgar, Chausson and more from Daniel Hope and friends.
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JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
Benjamin Bruns (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Clint van der Linde (baritone), Makato Sakurada (tenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Christian Immler (baritone), Toru Kaku (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
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New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2020
31st Jan 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Strauss Lieder from Diana Damrau, Helmut Deutsch and the late Mariss Jansons, French orchestral works from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London, Prokofiev from Steven Osborne, and Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2020
24th Jan 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton explore Schubert, Haydn and Wolf’s ‘Divine Muses’, Swedish soprano Malin Byström makes her solo recording debut with Berg, Duparc and Rangström, and Kairos present three large-scale orchestral works by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2020
17th Jan 2020by Chris O'Reilly
CPE Bach from oboist Xenia Löffler and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand‘ from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas from Fazil Say, and another Liszt rarity from Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th January 2020
10th Jan 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Elgar from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Andris Nelsons’s first New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna, Handel’s first opera Almira from Boston, and Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold from soprano Camilla Tilling.
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Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Ben Davies (cello), Hannah Roberts (cello), Josephine Knight (cello), Caroline Dearnley (cello), Ashok Klouda (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass), The Heath Quartet, Gary Pomeroy (viola), Oliver Heath (violin), Sara Wolstenholme (violin), Chris Murray (cello), Plinio Fernandes (guitar), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin), Alinka Rowe (viola), Ayla Sahin (violin), Robert Max (cello), Desmond Neysmith (cello), Rowena Calvert (cello), Nicholas Trygstad (cello), Jo Cole (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd January 2020
3rd Jan 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Schtschedrin and Respighi from the late Mariss Jansons, late Brahms from Stephen Hough, the start of a promising Ockeghem series from award-winning vocal ensemble Blue Heron, and a scintillating debut from young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, who won last year’s Carl Nielsen Competition.
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Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2019
27th Dec 2019by Chris O'Reilly
A selection of our best-selling titles from autumn and winter, from artists including Víkingur Ólafsson, Le Poème Harmonique, and Paavo Järvi.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th December 2019
20th Dec 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Symphonies by Leopold Koželuch, piano concertos by Hummel, transcendental studies by Liszt and Lyapunov, and a three-part documentary on the history of the English organ from Fugue State Films.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th December 2019
13th Dec 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Opera overtures by Auber, Berio transcriptions of Mahler and The Beatles, a Mediterranean postcard from guitarist Sharon Isbin, and a documentary on the young French pianist Lucas Debargue.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th December 2019
6th Dec 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Cecilia Bartoli’s tribute to Farinelli, Franck and Chopin with Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang, Kenneth Leighton choral works from St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh, and a newly remastered Das Lied von der Erde which Kathleen Ferrier recorded live with Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th November 2019
29th Nov 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Beethoven from René Jacobs, Bach from Angela Hewitt, Ravel from Javier Perianes and Josep Pons, and Bruckner from the Berliner Philharmoniker archives.
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Beethoven: Leonore
Marlis Petersen (Leonore), Maximilian Schmitt (Florestan), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Rocco), Johannes Weisser (Pizarro), Robin Johannsen (Marzelline), Johannes Chum (Jaqino), Tareq Nazmi (Don Fernando), Florian Feth, Julian Popken (Two Prisoners) Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd November 2019
22nd Nov 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Russian showpieces from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Luigi Rossi from Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata, and Christmas in Leipzig from early music collective Solomon’s Knot in their debut recording.
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Luigi Rossi: La Lyra d’Orfeo & Arpa Davidica
Christina Pluhar (theorbo, harp), Véronique Gens (soprano), Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Céline Scheen (soprano), Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor), Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), L'Arpeggiata
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New Release Round-Up - 15th November 2019
15th Nov 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Alexandre Tharaud, Angela Gheorghiu, Vilde Frang and Iván Fischer, plus previously unreleased archive recordings of John Barbirolli and The Hallé and a portrait of the French composer and organist Fernand de La Tombelle.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th November 2019
8th Nov 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Alison Balsom, Jakub Józef Orliński, Roberto Alagna and Benjamin Bernheim, plus a rare outing on DVD and Blu-ray for Ambroise Thomas's opera Hamlet, starring Stéphane Degout as the Prince of Denmark.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st November 2019
1st Nov 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Debussy from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, Beethoven from Masaaki Suzuki and Ronald Brautigam, late Schubert from Arcadi Volodos, and Ermonela Jaho’s shattering Traviata on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th October 2019
25th Oct 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, Stravinsky and Ravel from Beatrice Rana, Shostakovich from the Pavel Haas Quartet, and a second recording of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth.