Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 6th June 2025
6th Jun 2025
Debussy and Messiaen from Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida, Sibelius from Nicholas Collon and Christian Tetzlaff with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Angela Hewitt, and Haydn from the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th May 2025
30th May 2025
Tchaikovsky from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Alpesh Chauhan, a second helping of British orchestral anthems from Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of Merton College Oxford, Ligeti concertos from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, and Anna Lapwood's eclectic new album Firedove.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd May 2025
23rd May 2025
Purcell from Helen Charlston and Sounds Baroque, Chopin from Benjamin Grosvenor, Beethoven from Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, and Madeleine Dring from Nicholas Daniel and friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th May 2025
16th May 2025
Bach from Benjamin Alard, Brahms from Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, Lament and Liberation from the Choir of St John's College Cambridge, and Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven & Liszt from Mariam Batsashvili.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th May 2025
9th May 2025
Chopin from Justin Taylor, Bizet's complete songs from Cyrille Dubois and friends, early Schumann & Bruckner from Jordi Savall, and Shostakovich & Britten from Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd May 2025
2nd May 2025
Bruckner from The Hallé and Kahchun Wong, Kurtág from Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Brahms's German Requiem from Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, and Strauss's Salome from Edward Gardner (with Malin Byström in the title-role).
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New Release Round-Up - 25th April 2025
25th Apr 2025
Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, Shostakovich from Yo-Yo Ma in Boston, Tchaikovsky from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan, and Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th April 2025
18th Apr 2025
Bruckner and Gesualdo from the Monteverdi Choir, a celebration of tango from French cellist Ophélie Gaillard, the complete songs of Ravel from Malcolm Martineau and friends, and Maurice Greene's 1737 oratorio Jephtha from the Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th April 2025
11th Apr 2025
Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Daughtery from Anne Akiko Meyers, the Albany Symphony Orchestra and David Alan Miller, Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, and a recital of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi from Eleonora Buratto, the Orchestra e Coro dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova and Sesto Quatrini.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th April 2025
4th Apr 2025
Bach's Mass in B minor from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, Ravel from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle from the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Karina Canellakis, and Schubert from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th March 2025
28th Mar 2025
Havergal Brian's Agamemnon from Martyn Brabbins and the Orchestra of English National Opera, Dvořák and Price from Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet, orchestral works by Errollyn Wallen, and Tosca from Daniel Harding in Rome.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st March 2025
21st Mar 2025
Bach concertos from Beatrice Rana and Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a celebration of the brass band tradition from trombonist Peter Moore and the Tredegar Band, Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata from Nobuyuki Tsujii, and Shostakovich from Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th March 2025
14th Mar 2025
Mahler from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, a recital of preludes from Jan Lisiecki, 'Organised Delirium' (built around Boulez) from Tamara Stefanovich, and the world premiere recording of Michael Tippett's final opera New Year from Martyn Brabbins et al.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th March 2025
7th Mar 2025
An anniversary homage to Ravel from Bertrand Chamayou, Mahler's Symphony No. 3 from the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, the world premiere recording of Grace Williams's Missa Cambrensis from the BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales and Adrian Partington, and Clara & Robert Schumann from Julian Bliss and James Baillieu.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th February 2025
28th Feb 2025
Malcolm Arnold rarities from the London Choral Sinfonia, Stephen Hough's new piano concerto 'The World of Yesterday', Khachaturian from Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the debut solo recording from South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st February 2025
21st Feb 2025
The original version of Brahms's German Requiem from Kent Nagano, Abel Selaocoe's Hymns of Bantu, Ravel's piano concertos from Seong-Jin Cho with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, and Sibelius & Barber from Renaud Capuçon, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Daniel Harding.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2025
14th Feb 2025
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé from the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano, Kurtág and Schubert from Benjamin Appl, Haydn's Die Schöpfung from Simon Rattle in Munich, and Stravinsky's Le rossignol from Paris (with Sabine Devieilhe in the title-role).
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New Release Round-Up - 7th February 2025
7th Feb 2025
John Field from Alice Sara Ott, Shostakovich from the Jerusalem Quartet, Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius from Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Vivaldi's Arsilda from Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Basel.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2025
31st Jan 2025
Richard Rodney Bennett from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and John Wilson, Strauss from Renaud Capuçon, Schumann from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, and rare Italian piano concertos from Roberto Prosseda.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2025
24th Jan 2025
Orff's Carmina Burana from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, a programme of music by refugee composers from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Busoni from Peter Donohoe, and Weinberg's The Passenger from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Teatro Real de Madrid.
