Latest News: Classical, Recording of the Week
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Recording of the Week,
Dvořák from Veronika Jarůšková, Peter Jarůšek and Boris Giltburg 22nd September 2023
Six years on from their award-winning recording of Dvořák's Piano Quintet No. 2, the first violinist and cellist of the Pavel Haas Quartet reunite with Giltburg for the complete piano trios in interpretations bursting with colour and vitality.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! 15th September 2023
A true labour of love for the conductor, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's latest project presents the premiere complete recording of the first collaboration between the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
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Recording of the Week,
A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet 8th September 2023
The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
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Recording of the Week,
Monteverdi's Vespers from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion 1st September 2023
Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble offer a vivid, contrast-filled account of Monteverdi's sacred masterwork. A new benchmark recording of the Vespers? Quite possibly.
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Recording of the Week,
Russian Romances from Piotr Beczała and Helmut Deutsch 25th August 2023
The Polish tenor and German pianist are both at the top of their considerable games in an eloquent and imaginative recital of songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, released today on Pentatone.
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Recording of the Week,
Sanctissima from the ORA Singers 18th August 2023
The London-based vocal ensemble's 'Vespers and Benediction for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary' features striking commissions by Giles Swayne, Julian Anderson, Matthew Martin and the late Sven-David Sandström.
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Recording of the Week,
Rumon Gamba conducts overtures from Finland 11th August 2023
The Oulu Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor offer a treasure trove of rarely-recorded orchestral gems by Finnish composers contemporary with Sibelius.
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Recording of the Week,
Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák from the Takács Quartet 4th August 2023
The Takács Quartet present a double-bill of works from the year 1895: a youthful Coleridge-Taylor, barely into his twenties but already carving out a distinctive style, and a mature Dvořák, recently returned to his beloved Bohemia from the New World.
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Recording of the Week,
Puccini's Il Trittico from Salzburg 28th July 2023
Asmik Grigorian stakes her claim as one of the finest singing actresses of today in Christof Loy’s coherent, uncluttered staging of Puccini’s trilogy of one-act operas - culminating in a devastating interpretation of Suor Angelica.
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Recording of the Week,
Ysaÿe's six sonatas for solo violin from Hilary Hahn 21st July 2023
Hilary Hahn finds magic, morbidity, merrymaking and much more in a brilliant new account of Ysaÿe's six affectionate character-sketches for his violinist friends.
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Recording of the Week,
John Wilson conducts orchestral works by American composer Kenneth Fuchs 14th July 2023
World premiere recordings of a quartet of orchestral works by Grammy Award-winning composer Kenneth Fuchs from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London.
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Recording of the Week,
Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho 7th July 2023
The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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Recording of the Week,
Selections from Bernard Herrmann's only opera, Wuthering Heights 30th June 2023
Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film scores, based on the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Recording of the Week,
A new album of orchestral works by Florence Price from Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and Chineke! 23rd June 2023
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and Chineke! present benchmark new recordings of two major works by Florence Price – capturing both the sweep and grandeur of her large-scale movements and the lively fun of her dance-like conclusions.
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Recording of the Week,
L'Heure espagnole from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles 16th June 2023
Period instruments lend a delicious piquancy and wit to Ravel's Franco-Spanish farce about a libidinous clock-maker's wife intent on making the most of her husband's absence, with a stylish cast led by French mezzo Isabelle Druet.
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Recording of the Week,
A Grand Concert of Music by Mr Charles, the Hungarian (lately arriv'd from Paris) 9th June 2023
Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra recreate a performance that took place Dublin in 1742 - after the triumphant success of Messiah's premiere, an enterprising rival from overseas boldly puts on concerts featuring Handel's other works, right under his nose...
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Recording of the Week,
Tchaikovsky from Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 2nd June 2023
Featuring Francesca da Rimini, The Voyevoda and The Tempest, the British conductor's debut recording is the stuff dreams are made on, combining passion and precision to thrilling dramatic effect.
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Recording of the Week,
A new Haydn symphony series from Paavo Järvi 26th May 2023
Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie launch an exciting new Haydn project, embracing music that's peppered with moments of wry humour.
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Recording of the Week,
Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale 19th May 2023
The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.
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Recording of the Week,
Broken Branches from Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe 12th May 2023
The Lebanese-American tenor and Scottish guitarist join forces for a multifaceted yet deeply personal recital, that ranges across cultural and geographical boundaries and explores the idea of diaspora in music.
