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Latest News: Classical, New Release Round-up

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 30th September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, an all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and a celebration of neglected French composer Charlotte Sohy from new label La Boîte à Pépites.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 23rd September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bruckner from Iván Fischer, an impressive, genre-defying debut album from South African cellist Abel Selaocoe, Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage from Edward Gardner, and a sparkling collection of 'lost jewels' from Belgian soprano Jodie Devos.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 16th September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Weinberg from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Bruckner from Simon Rattle, a stunning debut of Baroque rarities from Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá, and a Disney album from Lang Lang.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 9th September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Liszt, Wagner and Henze from Igor Levit, a wide-ranging song-inspired recital from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a celebration of two hundred years of Brazilian classical music, and Monteverdi from Jordi Savall.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 2nd September 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bach from Mahan Esfahani, Brahms from Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz, John Adams from Paavo Järvi, and Haydn from the Takács Quartet.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 26th August 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Brahms symphonies from Ádám Fischer, Johann Jakob Walther from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Sean Shibe's Lost & Found, and early English keyboard music from Giulia Nuti.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 19th August 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Britten from Andrew Staples and Daniel Harding, late Schubert from René Jacobs and B'rock Orchestra, Secret Love Letters from Lisa Batiashvili, and John Cage from the Latvian Radio Choir.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 12th August 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Martinů from Roger Norrington, Britten and Bridge played on a viola previously owned by both composers, piano duets by four British composers, and a final helping of Mozart from the Armida Quartett.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 5th August 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bach concertos from Masato Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 15 from Christian Lindberg, the Emperor Quartet's complete Britten recordings, and Vaughan Williams for brass band.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 29th July 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's Houses of the Wind.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 22nd July 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 15th July 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Chopin from Louis Lortie, Beethoven from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vladimir Jurowski, and John Frederick Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley from The Brook Street Band and John Andrews.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 8th July 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    This year's Sommernachtskonzert from Vienna, late Schubert from the Gewandhausorchester and Herbert Blomstedt, a third helping of Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro, and a collection of twentieth-century and contemporary choral works from Anna Lapwood and The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 1st July 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Haydn from Giovanni Antonini, Mouton from the Brabant Ensemble, French trumpet concertos from Håkan Hardenberger, and the world premiere recording of a powerful new song-cycle for tenor and string quartet by Nico Muhly.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 24th June 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Massenet orchestral songs with soloists including Véronique Gens and Étienne Dupuis, Vivaldi from Les Arts Florissants, music by three Latvian composers from Kremerata Baltica, and Bach from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Alon Sariel.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 17th June 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    A musical journey 'in the footsteps of Rumi', Chopin & Rachmaninoff from Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov, Mozart & Voříšek from Herbert Blomstedt, and Strauss from Hanna-Elisabeth Müller.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 10th June 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra give world premieres of music by their compatriots, plus David Lang's the writings, Grieg from Peter Donohoe, and John Ireland from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 3rd June 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bolcom rags from Marc-André Hamelin, Hahn from Pavel Kolesnikov, Schumann from Pablo Heras-Casado, and the world premiere recording of Handel's pasticcio Caio Fabriccio from London Early Opera.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 27th May 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Rameau from György Vashegyi, Lisette Oropesa in La traviata, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and a box-set of the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies with Richard Hickox & Sir Andrew Davis.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 20th May 2022

    by Katherine Cooper

    Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart from Riccardo Chailly, Schubert's 'Fair Maid of the Mill' from Nicky Spence & Christopher Glynn, a Parisian recital from flautist Ana de la Vega, and John Williams's Cello Concerto from Yo-Yo Ma (with the composer conducting).