New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-up - 4th August 2017
Popular symphonies from Mahler and Dvořák, plus a 40 CD set showcasing the art of conducting are the pick of this week's orchestral releases. On DVD & Blu-ray, Klaus Florian Vogt is Parsifal in Wagner's opera from the Bayreuth Festival, and Philippe Herreweghe conducts a performance of Dvořák's Requiem.
Mahler's Fifth ranks today as one of his most popular symphonies. This Munich concert event of March 2016 is an outstanding interpretation, with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Mariss Jansons.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The debut recording from the Chineke! Orchestra, in a live performance from The Royal Festival Hall, London. The orchestra is part of the Chineke! Foundation – a non-profit organisation that provides career opportunities to young Black and Minority Ethnic classical musicians in the UK and Europe.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Gundula Janowitz celebrated her eightieth birthday on Wednesday, 2nd August, 2017. For her 1999 Athens recital, she chose two composers absolutely at the centre of her song repertoire, Franz Schubert and Richard Strauss, with a third, Robert Schumann, forming a bridge between the two.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
‘I have no problem with notes … none at all’, was Feldman’s cryptic comment on For Bunita Marcus. Throughout the seventy-two-minute duration of this extraordinary work, notes coalesce into wisps of melody which drift softly in and out of an immense silence. You are indeed, as Marc-André Hamelin writes, ‘about to enter a world unlike any other’.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The first ever CD release of Ania Dorfmann’s complete RCA Victor recordings from 1939–1959. The collaborations with Arturo Toscanini include her rare 1939 recording of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and the 1945 Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1. The set also contains a complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, and rare Tchaikovsky pieces, among them three previously unreleased movements from The Seasons.
Available Format: 9 CDs
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
