Latest News: Classical, Box Set Selections
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - June 2022 21st June 2022
This month's heavyweights include a newly remastered edition of Jacqueline du Pré's complete Warner recordings, German pianist Carl Seemann's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Sir Mark Elder's cycle of the Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Hallé.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - May 2022 24th May 2022
May heavyweights include Wilhelm Kempff's collected Decca and Polydor recordings, the Richard Hickox/Andrew Davis cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble's complete Philips Recordings, and a fortieth-birthday anthology from Capriccio.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - April 2022 30th April 2022
This month's heavyweights include extensive anthologies celebrating Dimitri Mitropoulos and Kurt Masur, 150th birthday-editions of Vaughan Williams and Scriabin, and a set of recordings from Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - March 2022 23rd March 2022
March heavyweights include two Hans Knappertsbusch anthologies on Decca Eloquence, Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy's complete recordings for Columbia Graphophone. a celebration of the Ballets Russes, and a collection of solo piano works by female composers from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - February 2022 22nd February 2022
February heavyweights include French organist Olivier Latry's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, The Choir of King’s College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury's complete Argo recordings, and anthologies celebrating the legacies of Zoltán Kocsis and Blandine Verlet.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - January 2022 25th January 2022
January heavyweights include anthologies celebrating the legacies of Clemens Krauss, Pierre Boulez and Fou Ts'ong, plus Haydn collections from Sir Neville Marriner and Giovanni Antonini.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - December 2021 28th December 2021
End-of-year heavyweights include Erich Kleiber's complete recordings for Decca, Alessandro Marangoni's survey of Rossini's 'sins of old age', a boundary-crossing anthology of Yo-Yo Ma albums, and a thirtieth-anniversary celebration of the Praga label.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2021 30th November 2021
Two anthologies celebrating the legacy of American violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Stephen Hough's collected recordings for Erato, and Quatuor Ébène's complete Beethoven quartets on DVD.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - October 2021 26th October 2021
October heavyweights include anthologies celebrating Robert Tear, Karl Böhm, Georges Cziffra and Géza Anda. plus the Dresden Kammerchor's complete recordings of Heinrich Schütz.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - September 2021 20th September 2021
Heavyweight collections of recordings by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl Böhm and Igor Markevitch, plus Beethoven piano sonata cycles by Boris Giltburg and Rudolf Buchbinder.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - August 2021 18th August 2021
Marian Anderson's complete recordings for RCA Victor, a centenary celebration of Giuseppe Di Stefano, and a fiftieth-birthday collection from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - July 2021 28th July 2021
Bernard Herrmann conducting his own film-scores, a multi-conductor Bruckner cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Friedrich Gulda's complete recordings on Decca, and an anthology of live recordings from the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - July 2021 23rd June 2021
Eightieth-birthday celebrations of Martha Argerich and Jaime Laredo, an orchestral anthology marking the 150th anniversary of Zemlinsky's birth, and the Juilliard Quartet's collected early recordings on Columbia.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - May 2021 31st May 2021
A centenary celebration of Dennis Brain, Stravinsky from Bernstein and Chailly, and highlights from the legendary concerts which Klemperer gave in Amsterdam between 1947 and 1961.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - April 2021 21st April 2021
April heavyweights include French organist Jeanne Demessieux's complete recordings on Decca, plus anthologies celebrating André Previn, Eugene Ormandy and Peter Maag.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - March 2021 30th March 2021
A celebration of Claudio Abbado's years with the London Symphony Orchestra, two collections commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Stravinsky's death, and the complete Arthur Grumiaux recordings on Philips.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - February 2021 15th February 2021
A celebration of Natalie Dessay on stage and in the studio, a multi-conductor Mahler cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Strauss's complete tone-poems from François-Xavier Roth and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - January 2021 26th January 2021
The complete Percy Grainger recordings on Chandos, an anthology of piano lessons from Christoph Eschenbach, and celebrations of Dame Gillian Weir and Hephzibah Menuhin.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - December 2020 29th December 2020
Richard Bonynge's complete ballet recordings on Decca, Mozart operas from Sir Charles Mackerras, and a comprehensive anthology of harp concertos on Brilliant Classics.
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Box Set Selections,
Boxed Set Selections - November 2020 24th November 2020
A mammoth tribute to Karl Richter, David Goode’s complete Bach organ works on Signum, Ronald Brautigam’s complete Mozart piano concertos, and a deluxe celebration of Bernard Haitink on DVD.
