Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-up - 30th June 2017
30th Jun 2017
Including vocal music by Donald Swann from a luxury cast of distinguished singers, a celebration of the Venice Carnival of 1729 from Ann Hallenberg, and new recordings of Bach from conductor Maasaki Suzuki and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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New Release Round-up - 23rd June 2017
23rd Jun 2017
Choral highlights this week include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis from Marek Janowski and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 from Riccardo Chailly, while opera highlights include Karajan's 1967 Ring Cycle remastered and Plácido Domingo stars in Verdi's Macbeth on DVD and Blu-ray.
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New Release Round-up - 16th June 2017
16th Jun 2017
Orchestral highlights this week feature Mendelssohn, Prokofiev and Bruckner. A new work from Jonathan Dove, weird and wonderful concertos by Telemann from Berlin, and a celebration of André Cluytens orchestral recordings are also amongst this week's highlights.
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New Release Round-up - 9th June 2017
9th Jun 2017
Two new Handel recordings, songs from Robert Franz and an album of Russian songs and arias from Olga Peretyatko feature this week, alongside a finished 'unfinished' symphony and Brahms from Vadim Gluzman.
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New Release Round-up - 2nd June 2017
2nd Jun 2017
Hallé and Mark Elder continue their Wagner series with Parsifal, plus box sets devoted to Karl Böhm and The Choir of St John's College Cambridge, and Rimsky-Korsakov and Rossini operas feature this week.
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New Release Round-up - 26th May 2017
26th May 2017
Brahms Piano Concertos from Sunwook Kim and Hallé, music for piano four hands from Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier, and vocal music from Schubert and Fauré feature in this week's round-up of new releases.
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New Release Round-up - 19th May 2017
19th May 2017
Mahler from Ivan Fischer, Prokofiev from Tugan Sokhiev, and Falla are amongst the orchestral highlights this week, alongside operas from Saint-Saëns and Schoenberg.
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New Release Round-up - 12th May 2017
12th May 2017
Mozart and Haydn releases from the LSO Wind Ensemble, pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and soprano Sophie Bevan feature this week, alongside a Schumann recital from Luca Buratto and Telemann from Concerto Melante.
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New Release Round-up - 5th May 2017
5th May 2017
The Emerson quartet celebrate forty years with new recordings of Britten and Purcell, while vocal releases from sopranos Diana Damrau and Carolyn Sampson also feature in this week's round-up.
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New Release Round-up - 28th April 2017
28th Apr 2017
This week's highlights include the latest release in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series, Johann Strauss II in St. Petersburg, Debussy and Ravel recorded live in Paris and a box set celebrating Louis Frémaux's time as Principal Conductor of the CBSO.
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New Release Round-up - 21st April 2017
21st Apr 2017
Semyon Bychkov conducts Franz Schmidt, Christian Gerhaher sings Brahms, chamber music from Tasmin Little and a collection of Johan Botha's live performances at the Wiener Staatsoper are included in this week's new releases.
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New Release Round-up - 14th April 2017
14th Apr 2017
Orchestral music from Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Haydn and Mahler, a new recording of Bach's St. John Passion in English and Julia Lezhneva singing Carl Heinrich Graun are just some of the highlights this week.
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New Release Round-up - 7th April 2017
7th Apr 2017
Wagner from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mark Elder, orchestral music from Richard Strauss, Mendelssohn and Sousa, and pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Peter Donohoe and Artur Schnabel feature in this week's round up of new releases.
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Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa), Katarina Dalayman (Ortrud), Evgeny Nikitin (Friedrich von Telramund), Falk Struckmann (Heinrich der Vogler) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Dutch National Opera Chorus, Mark Elder
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New Release Round-up - 31st March 2017
31st Mar 2017
Amongst this week's highlights are Edward Gardner conducting Elgar, Yeygeny Sudbin playing Beethoven Piano Concertos, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from La Nuova Music, and Alina Ibragimova continues her cycle of Mozart sonatas.
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New Release Round-up - 24th March 2017
24th Mar 2017
Box sets devoted to the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the New York Philharmonic's 175th anniversary and the Takács Quartet's Beethoven recordings are released this week, alongside Schubert duets on fortepiano from Andreas Staier and Alexander Melnikov, and cello concertos by Elgar and Tchaikovsky played by Johannes Moser.
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New Release Round-up - 17th March 2017
17th Mar 2017
Chopin from Jan Lisiecki, Bach organ works from Masaaki Suzuki, and songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan feature this week, alongside sets marking the collaboration between John Williams and Steven Spielberg, and the Wiener Philharmoniker's 175th anniversary.
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New Release Round-up - 10th March 2017
10th Mar 2017
Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to Bach's St. Matthew Passion and The Sixteen perform James Macmillan's new setting of the Stabat Mater in this week's selection of new releases. Benjamin Appl's first disc for Sony also features, alongside chamber music from the Goldner String Quartet and violist Antoine Tamestit.
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New Release Round-up - 3rd March 2017
3rd Mar 2017
Sibelius from Osmo Vänskä, Mahler from Mariss Jansons, and the conclusion of Chandos's series of Charles Ives feature this week, alongside Rossini arias and duets from Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Jean Rondeau's disc of harpsichord concertos by members of the Bach family.
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New Release Round-up - 24th February 2017
24th Feb 2017
Rachmaninov piano trios with Gidon Kremer and Daniil Trifonov, Beethoven sonatas from violinist James Ehnes, and Elgar from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko are featured in this week's round-up.
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New Release Round-up - 17th February 2017
17th Feb 2017
Included this week is a new recording of Handel's Catone on Glossa with Sonia Prina in the title role, plus choral releases from Les Arts Florissants and The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, and instrumental releases from cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand and pianist Barry Douglas.
