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New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2019
18th Oct 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Tchaikovsky from George Li and Daniel Lozakovich, Prokofiev from Alexander Melnikov, Beethoven from Leonidas Kavakos, and a 75th birthday recital from Nelson Freire.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2019
11th Oct 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Rachmaninov from Daniil Trifonov, Schumann from Christian Gerhaher, Liszt from Joseph Moog, and a live recording of Tristan und Isolde from Australia with Stuart Skelton and Gun-Brit Barkmin in the title-roles.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th October 2019
4th Oct 2019by Chris O'Reilly
A complete Beethoven cycle from Andris Nelsons and the Wiener Philharmoniker, plus new albums from Quatuor Arod, Ann Hallenberg, Lucas Debargue, and Christophe Coin.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th September 2019
27th Sep 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums include Schubert from Francesco Piemontesi, Chopin from Pavel Kolesnikov and Brahms from Edward Gardner, plus the first volume in a planned Eric Coates series from John Wilson.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th September 2019
20th Sep 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Jordi Savall, Les Cris de Paris, Daniel Behle and Pablo Heras-Casado, plus a monumental account of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts, conducted by John Nelson and recorded live at St Paul’s Cathedral on the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death in March.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th September 2019
13th Sep 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Jan Lisiecki, Michael and Daniel Barenboim, Igor Levit, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, plus a Rossini rarity starring Pretty Yende and Juan Diego Flórez on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th September 2019
6th Sep 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Imogen Cooper, Emmanuelle Bertrand, The Sixteen and Mr McFall's Chamber, plus Simon Rattle's inaugural concert as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra on DVD and blu-ray.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th August 2019
30th Aug 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Masaaki Suzuki, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pygmalion, plus the 1859 version of Gounod’s Faust from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd August 2019
23rd Aug 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New albums from Antoine Tamestit, Ivo Pogorelich, Johannes Moser and Annelien Van Wauwe, plus a celebration of Vladimir Horowitz’s Carnegie Hall comeback in 1965.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019by Chris O'Reilly
Debut solo albums from Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov and award-winning South African tenor Levy Sekgapane, and music by Korngold for stage and screen.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019
9th Aug 2019by Chris O'Reilly
World premiere recordings of music by Ned Rorem, Dan Locklair and Airat Ichmouratov, plus vintage Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon and Helen Watts from the Australian Eloquence archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd August 2019
2nd Aug 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases from Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivan Ilić, and Van Cliburn competition-winner Haochen Zhang, plus the penultimate instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Rolando Villazón’s Mozart opera project on Deutsche Grammophon.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th July 2019
26th Jul 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, and the Hilliard Ensemble in one of their final recordings.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2019
19th Jul 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases from Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist Jan Vogler and the late Jörg Demus, plus world premiere recordings of operas by Goldschmidt and Cavalli, and the final instalment of Carus’s venerable Complete Schütz Edition.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th July 2019
12th Jul 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases from Nicola Benedetti, Gustavo Dudamel and percussionist Vivi Vassileva, plus a Rossini rarity from Bad Wildbad, Salome from the Salzburg Festival, and a celebration of the Verbier Festival’s 25th anniversary.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases from Delphine Galou, Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Maxim Vengerov, plus landmark accounts of Delius’s Sea Drift and Weber’s Euryanthe from the archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th June 2019
14th Jun 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New recordings from Renée Fleming, Herbert Blomstedt, Matthew Barley and Pieter Wispelwey, plus DVDs/Blu-rays of two operatic rarities: Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane and Mercadante’s Didone abbandonata.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th June 2019
7th Jun 2019by Chris O'Reilly
New recordings from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, Richard and Mika Stoltzman, Swedish chamber ensemble O/Modərnt, and the final instalment of the Hallé’s Ring Cycle under Sir Mark Elder, with Simon O’Neill as Siegfried.