Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 24th August 2018
24th Aug 2018
An all-French recital from Alice Sara Ott, an impressive and innovative debut album from soprano Nadine Sierra, and a second Brahms recording from Cyprien Katsaris and Hélène Mercier.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th August 2018
17th Aug 2018
Beethoven from the Elias Quartet, Mendelssohn from Anima Eterna Brugge, a friends-and-family affair from Mischa Maisky, and a fascinating collection of chamber works from the Russian-British composer Alissa Firsova.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th August 2018
10th Aug 2018
Penderecki from Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bernstein from Antonio Pappano, Mozart from Daniel Barenboim and friends/family, plus the first commercial recording of an English Romantic opera conducted by Richard Bonynge.
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New Release Round-up - 3rd August 2018
3rd Aug 2018
New releases from the Binchois Consort, lutenist Jakob Lindberg, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plus Georg Solti's Tannhäuser in 5.1 surround sound and the complete Decca recordings of Alicia De Larrocha.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th July 2018
27th Jul 2018
New releases from Steven Osborne and Mariss Jansons, plus the complete string quartets of James MacMillan and a newly-remastered set of Karl Böhm’s legendary recordings of the Mozart symphonies.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th July 2018
20th Jul 2018
Strauss from Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Brahms from Mario Venzago, Shostakovich from Mikhail Pletnev, and the world premiere recording of an absorbing new opera by Aribert Reimann.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th July 2018
13th Jul 2018
Rare operas by Rameau and Thea Musgrave, plus Beethoven from Trio Goya and octets from the soloists' ensemble of La Scala.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th July 2018
6th Jul 2018
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mozart from Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato and Marina Rebeka, a Philip Glass premiere, and Spanish polyphony from Robert Hollingworth and De Profundis.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th June 2018
29th Jun 2018
Handel from Christopher Purves and Grace Davidson, a second instalment of Stravinsky from Ilya Gringolts, Suk from Jonathan Plowright, and Brett Dean’s Hamlet on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-up - 22nd June 2018
22nd Jun 2018
Mendelssohn from Iván Fischer, Bruch from Joshua Bell, Debussy from Pablo Heras-Casado, and the continuation of Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th June 2018
15th Jun 2018
Beethoven from Cuarteto Casals, Stravinsky from the LSO Chamber Ensemble, a Verdi rarity from La Scala, and a centenary documentary on the great Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson.
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New Release Round-up - 8th June 2018
8th Jun 2018
Dohnányi from the Nash Ensemble, Charpentier from Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, Handel (and possibly others!) from The Brook Street Band, and jazz standards from Thomas Quasthoff.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st June 2018
1st Jun 2018
Elgar from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Das Rheingold from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, La clemenza di Tito from last summer’s Glyndebourne Festival, and a dream-inspired recital from Stephen Hough.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th May 2018
25th May 2018
New recordings from artists including Jakub Hrůša, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Jacques Imbrailo & Alasdair Hogarth, plus a ravishing Rameau rarity from György Vashegyi.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th May 2018
18th May 2018
Schubert from Isabelle Faust and friends, Wolf-Ferrari from Vasily Petrenko, and Vaughan Williams from The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th May 2018
11th May 2018
New recordings from artists including Ádám Fischer, Sophie Pacini, Boris Giltburg, and Fabio Bonizzoni.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th May 2018
4th May 2018
Haydn from Trio Wanderer, Bach and Telemann from Christoph Prégardien (who's dipping a toe into baritone waters), and a previously-unreleased Schubert compilation from Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.
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New Release Round-up - 27th April 2018
27th Apr 2018
Mahler from Osmo Vänskä and his Minnesota orchestra, the world premiere recording of a recently-rediscovered sacred work by Gounod, and late Schubert from Marc-André Hamelin.
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New Release Round-up - 20th April 2018
20th Apr 2018
Shostakovich from Piotr Anderszewski and the Belcea Quartet, song recitals from Sandrine Piau and Nicholas Phan, Ravel and Gershwin from Denis Kozhukhin, and the complete symphonies of Arvo Pärt.
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New Release Round-up - 13th April 2018
13th Apr 2018
Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, Schubert from Roderick Williams, Bartók from Christian Tetzlaff and Hannu Lintu, and vintage Beethoven from the Budapest Quartet.
