Coming Soon,
Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
The up-and-coming spinto tenor Jonathan Tetelman's first recording for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring arias by composers including Mascagni, Ponchielli, Zandonai and Verdi, will be released in August (and after spending a lot of time with an advance copy I can confirm it's pretty sensational!).
Other stand-out releases for late summer and early autumn include the first instalment of a major new series marking the centenary of George Walker's birth from Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, Mahler's Fourth Symphony from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's dance-inspired album Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
Hailed as 'a total star' by The New York Times, the Chilean-American tenor makes his Yellow Label debut with a programme of French and Italian arias, including excerpts from Madama Butterfly, Werther, Il trovatore, Adriana Lecouvreur, Andrea Chénier, La forza del destino, La Gioconda, and Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini (which he sang to great acclaim in Berlin last year).
Released 12th August.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Following their 2019 recording of the tone-poem Titan (a forerunner of the First Symphony), the French period-instrument ensemble and their founder turn to the Fourth Symphony, which they performed together with Devieilhe last September as part of the Philharmonie de Paris's Mahler Weekend. As on their previous recording, the members of Les Siècles predominantly play on Austro-German instruments from the late nineteenth century.
Released 26th August.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Recorded at the Konzerthaus Dortmund in 2021, this programme features the Brahms Clarinet Clarinet Trio plus the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata and Brahms's Cello Sonata No. 1; the Rachmaninoff, released digitally last year, was praised by Fanfare as 'a reading of pure pleasure for the listener', whilst The Strad described their live performance a Carnegie Hall as 'a study in contrasts...a mini-masterclass'.
Released 2nd September.
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After a decade-long hiatus, the Takács resume their Haydn series; the previous volumes were applauded by The Times for their 'characteristic imagination, contrapuntal rigour, sensitivity to texture and colour, and wit' and in The Guardian for their 'perfect weighting of every chord, buoyant rhythms, and sense of effortless transparency'.
Released 2nd September.
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Composed in the mid-1980s, Kurtág's longest song-cycle is scored for soprano and violin alone (with both performers required to employ a range of extended techniques), and sets snippets from Kafka’s diaries, posthumously published letters and stories. The musicologist Anne do Paço describes it as a prime example of Kurtág's 'radical use of extreme compression': the work is divided into four parts, with many of the forty individual sections lasting less than half a minute.
Released 19th August.
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In addition to the Italian Concerto and French Overture, Esfahani's third JS Bach recording for Hyperion includes the four duets BWV802-805 (which he notes have been 'practically ignored by harpsichordists, whether on record or in the recital hall'), the Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, and the Capriccio in honorem Johann Christoph Bachii Ohrdrufiensis.
Released 2nd September.
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The Washington-based orchestra are marking the centenary of Walker's birth with a cycle of his complete Sinfonias, to be released digitally over the next two years and issued as a box-set upon completion. The first African-American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Walker composed his first Sinfonia in 1984, revising it twelve years later; the piece is dedicated to his friend and publisher Paul Kapp, whom Walker described as 'a very remarkable man...who published the bulk of my music because he believed in it'.
Released 14th October.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Britten: Three Song-Cycles
Andrew Staples (tenor), Christopher Parkes (horn), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
Staples (who sang a small role on Harding's Grammy-winning recording of Billy Budd near the beginning of his career) is the soloist in all three works here: Les Illuminations (originally written for the Swiss soprano Sophie Wyss), and the Serenade and Nocturne, both composed for Britten's partner Peter Pears. Harding's previous Britten recordings include The Turn of the Screw in 2003 (which won a Gramophone Award) and the Serenade with Ian Bostridge in 1999.
Released 19th August.
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For her first song-recital on her own label, the Latvian soprano has assembled a fascinating programme of mélodies by French composers on texts in Italian, German, and Russian as well as their native language; highlights include five settings of German poetry by Marie Jaëll, Pauline Viardot's 'L'innamorata' and 'Willow Song', Saint-Saëns's 'La Madonna col Bambino' and 'Alla Riva del Tebro', and Cécile Chaminade's 'Chanson Slave'.
Released 2nd September.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
