Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 11th August 2023
11th Aug 2023
Shostakovich and Maneein concertos from Rachel Barton Pine, Mozart from Federico Colli, Francesca Dego, Timothy Ridout and Laura van der Heijden, late Haydn from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and orchestral songs by Peter Warlock.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th August 2023
4th Aug 2023
A celebration of the Bach dynasty from oboist Albrecht Mayer, Tan Dun's Buddha Passion, Tchaikovsky & Schulhoff from Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh, and music for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from ORA & Suzi Digby.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th July 2023
28th Jul 2023
Romantic horn concertos from Martin Owen (conducted by John Wilson), Mahler song-cycles from Dame Sarah Connolly & Joseph Middleton, Book Two of The Well-Tempered Clavier from Ewa Pobłocka, and lute-songs old and new from Carolyn Sampson & Matthew Wadsworth.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st July 2023
21st Jul 2023
Mendelssohn from Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Bach from Bojan Čičić, a Spanish recital from violinist Francisco Fullana, and fourteen-year-old treble Malakai Bayoh's debut on Decca.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th July 2023
14th Jul 2023
Ysaÿe from Hilary Hahn, an all-horn programme from the horn section of the Munich Opera, archive recordings of Dvořák's Mass and Te Deum from the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony Orchestra under Václav Smetácek, and Brian Smith Walter's LGBT song-recital with Adam Johnson.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th July 2023
7th Jul 2023
Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Joachim Mendelson & Grażyna Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, and Mendelssohn & more from young Australian violinist Christian Li.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th June 2023
30th Jun 2023
CPE Bach from Keith Jarrett, choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho, Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd June 2023
23rd Jun 2023
Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas's debut recording on Delphian, Mozart violin sonatas from Renaud Capuçon & Kit Armstrong, Verdi's Un ballo in maschera from Marek Janowski, and Forbidden Fruits from Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th June 2023
16th Jun 2023
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's choral music from London Choral Sinfonia, Kurt Weill's Propheten from Dennis Russell Davies, Mexican songs and chamber music from Mr McFall’s Chamber & Jamie MacDougall, and Bach motets from Solomon's Knot.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th June 2023
9th Jun 2023
Eric Coates from the BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson, Bach's Art of Fugue from Cuarteto Casals, two recent orchestral works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and a second Liszt recital from Italian pianist Saskia Giorgini.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd June 2023
2nd Jun 2023
Byrd from The Gesualdo Six, Bruckner from Thomas Dausgaard in Bergen, works by Tan Dun, Turnage, Glass and Heggie from the New Century Chamber Orchestra & Daniel Hope, and Handel's Serse (with Emily D'Angelo in the title-role) from Harry Bicket & The English Concert.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th May 2023
26th May 2023
Shostakovich from Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO, Childhood Tales from Isata Kanneh-Mason, spirituals and songs by Black composers from American countertenor Reginald Mobley, and Schubert from Marek Janowski in Dresden.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th May 2023
19th May 2023
Bruch & Price concertos from Randall Goosby, a snapshot of Mozart's time in Mannheim from the Freiburger Barockorchester, Liszt orchestral songs from Thomas Hampson and friends, and the Bevan Family Consort's debut album of sacred choral music (including works by Palestrina, Tallis, Holst & Stanford).
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New Release Round-Up - 12th May 2023
12th May 2023
Legrenzi motets from Rinaldo Alessandrini, Nielsen from Edward Gardner & James Ehnes, Beethoven's complete piano concertos from Garrick Ohlsson & Donald Runnicles, and orchestral works & Lieder by Franz Schreker from Christoph Eschenbach (with soloists Chen Reiss & Matthias Goerne) in Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th May 2023
5th May 2023
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde from Piotr Beczala, Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber, Spontini's La vestale from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, Stanford's Requiem from Martyn Brabbins, and an eclectic East-meets-West recital from Karim Sulayman & Sean Shibe.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th April 2023
28th Apr 2023
CPE Bach from Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout, Roberto Sierra from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English lute songs from Alexander Chance & Toby Carr, and Schnittke from Cappella Amsterdam.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st April 2023
21st Apr 2023
Reich's Music for 18 Musicians from The Colin Currie Group, Baroque rarities from Michael Spyres & Il Pomo d'Oro, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 from Semyon Bychkov, and the physical release of Fabio Luisi's acclaimed Nielsen cycle with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th April 2023
14th Apr 2023
Mercadante's Il Proscritto from Carlo Rizzi & Opera Rara, a German Baroque Requiem from Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, an eclectic Marian-themed recital from Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Anna Prohaska, and Bruckner from François-Xavier Roth in Cologne.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th April 2023
7th Apr 2023
Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... from the Utah Symphony & Thierry Fischer, Schubert from Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton, Byrd from Fretwork & Alamire, and a sacred album from Joseph Calleja.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st March 2023
31st Mar 2023
Rachmaninoff from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Solti's Siegfried in newly-remastered glory, Berlioz from John Nelson & Joyce DiDonato, and a Pushkin-inspired recital from Gemma Summerfield, Gareth Brynmor-John, Abi Hyde-Smith and Jocelyn Freeman.
