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Latest News: Classical, New Release Round-up

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 14th February 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, Sibelius from Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Schumann, Poulenc and Zemlinsky from German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Hasse and Lady Gaga from Simone Kermes.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 7th February 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    The St Matthew Passion from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan, Sibelius from Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé, Mozart from Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and Elgar, Chausson and more from Daniel Hope and friends.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Strauss Lieder from Diana Damrau, Helmut Deutsch and the late Mariss Jansons, French orchestral works from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London, Prokofiev from Steven Osborne, and Beethoven from Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton explore Schubert, Haydn and Wolf’s ‘Divine Muses’, Swedish soprano Malin Byström makes her solo recording debut with Berg, Duparc and Rangström, and Kairos present three large-scale orchestral works by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    CPE Bach from oboist Xenia Löffler and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand‘ from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas from Fazil Say, and another Liszt rarity from Kirill Karabits and the Staatskapelle Weimar.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 10th January 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Elgar from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Andris Nelsons’s first New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna, Handel’s first opera Almira from Boston, and Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold from soprano Camilla Tilling.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 3rd January 2020

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Schtschedrin and Respighi from the late Mariss Jansons, late Brahms from Stephen Hough, the start of a promising Ockeghem series from award-winning vocal ensemble Blue Heron, and a scintillating debut from young Swedish violinist Johan Dalene, who won last year’s Carl Nielsen Competition.

  • New Release Round-up, Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    A selection of our best-selling titles from autumn and winter, from artists including Víkingur Ólafsson, Le Poème Harmonique, and Paavo Järvi.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 20th December 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Symphonies by Leopold Koželuch, piano concertos by Hummel, transcendental studies by Liszt and Lyapunov, and a three-part documentary on the history of the English organ from Fugue State Films.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 13th December 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Opera overtures by Auber, Berio transcriptions of Mahler and The Beatles, a Mediterranean postcard from guitarist Sharon Isbin, and a documentary on the young French pianist Lucas Debargue.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 6th December 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Cecilia Bartoli’s tribute to Farinelli, Franck and Chopin with Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang, Kenneth Leighton choral works from St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh, and a newly remastered Das Lied von der Erde which Kathleen Ferrier recorded live with Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 29th November 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Beethoven from René Jacobs, Bach from Angela Hewitt, Ravel from Javier Perianes and Josep Pons, and Bruckner from the Berliner Philharmoniker archives.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 22nd November 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Russian showpieces from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Luigi Rossi from Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata, and Christmas in Leipzig from early music collective Solomon’s Knot in their debut recording.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 15th November 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    New albums from Alexandre Tharaud, Angela Gheorghiu, Vilde Frang and Iván Fischer, plus previously unreleased archive recordings of John Barbirolli and The Hallé and a portrait of the French composer and organist Fernand de La Tombelle.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 8th November 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    New albums from Alison Balsom, Jakub Józef Orliński, Roberto Alagna and Benjamin Bernheim, plus a rare outing on DVD and Blu-ray for Ambroise Thomas's opera Hamlet, starring Stéphane Degout as the Prince of Denmark.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 1st November 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Debussy from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, Beethoven from Masaaki Suzuki and Ronald Brautigam, late Schubert from Arcadi Volodos, and Ermonela Jaho’s shattering Traviata on DVD and Blu-ray.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 25th October 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Strauss from Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic, Stravinsky and Ravel from Beatrice Rana, Shostakovich from the Pavel Haas Quartet, and a second recording of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Tchaikovsky from George Li and Daniel Lozakovich, Prokofiev from Alexander Melnikov, Beethoven from Leonidas Kavakos, and a 75th birthday recital from Nelson Freire.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    Rachmaninov from Daniil Trifonov, Schumann from Christian Gerhaher, Liszt from Joseph Moog, and a live recording of Tristan und Isolde from Australia with Stuart Skelton and Gun-Brit Barkmin in the title-roles.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 4th October 2019

    by Chris O'Reilly

    A complete Beethoven cycle from Andris Nelsons and the Wiener Philharmoniker, plus new albums from Quatuor Arod, Ann Hallenberg, Lucas Debargue, and Christophe Coin.