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Latest News: Classical, New Release Round-up

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 7th July 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Joachim Mendelson & Grażyna Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet, and Mendelssohn & more from young Australian violinist Christian Li.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 30th June 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    CPE Bach from Keith Jarrett, choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho, Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 23rd June 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas's debut recording on Delphian, Mozart violin sonatas from Renaud Capuçon & Kit Armstrong, Verdi's Un ballo in maschera from Marek Janowski, and Forbidden Fruits from Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 16th June 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's choral music from London Choral Sinfonia, Kurt Weill's Propheten from Dennis Russell Davies, Mexican songs and chamber music from Mr McFall’s Chamber & Jamie MacDougall, and Bach motets from Solomon's Knot.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 9th June 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Eric Coates from the BBC Philharmonic & John Wilson, Bach's Art of Fugue from Cuarteto Casals, two recent orchestral works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and a second Liszt recital from Italian pianist Saskia Giorgini.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 2nd June 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Byrd from The Gesualdo Six, Bruckner from Thomas Dausgaard in Bergen, works by Tan Dun, Turnage, Glass and Heggie from the New Century Chamber Orchestra & Daniel Hope, and Handel's Serse (with Emily D'Angelo in the title-role) from Harry Bicket & The English Concert.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 26th May 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Shostakovich from Gianandrea Noseda and the LSO, Childhood Tales from Isata Kanneh-Mason, spirituals and songs by Black composers from American countertenor Reginald Mobley, and Schubert from Marek Janowski in Dresden.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 19th May 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bruch & Price concertos from Randall Goosby, a snapshot of Mozart's time in Mannheim from the Freiburger Barockorchester, Liszt orchestral songs from Thomas Hampson and friends, and the Bevan Family Consort's debut album of sacred choral music (including works by Palestrina, Tallis, Holst & Stanford).

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 12th May 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Legrenzi motets from Rinaldo Alessandrini, Nielsen from Edward Gardner & James Ehnes, Beethoven's complete piano concertos from Garrick Ohlsson & Donald Runnicles, and orchestral works & Lieder by Franz Schreker from Christoph Eschenbach (with soloists Chen Reiss & Matthias Goerne) in Berlin.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 5th May 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde from Piotr Beczala, Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber, Spontini's La vestale from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, Stanford's Requiem from Martyn Brabbins, and an eclectic East-meets-West recital from Karim Sulayman & Sean Shibe.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 28th April 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    CPE Bach from Rachel Podger & Kristian Bezuidenhout, Roberto Sierra from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, English lute songs from Alexander Chance & Toby Carr, and Schnittke from Cappella Amsterdam.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 21st April 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Reich's Music for 18 Musicians from The Colin Currie Group, Baroque rarities from Michael Spyres & Il Pomo d'Oro, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 from Semyon Bychkov, and the physical release of Fabio Luisi's acclaimed Nielsen cycle with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 14th April 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Mercadante's Il Proscritto from Carlo Rizzi & Opera Rara, a German Baroque Requiem from Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier, an eclectic Marian-themed recital from Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Anna Prohaska, and Bruckner from François-Xavier Roth in Cologne.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 7th April 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... from the Utah Symphony & Thierry Fischer, Schubert from Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton, Byrd from Fretwork & Alamire, and a sacred album from Joseph Calleja.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 31st March 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Rachmaninoff from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Solti's Siegfried in newly-remastered glory, Berlioz from John Nelson & Joyce DiDonato, and a Pushkin-inspired recital from Gemma Summerfield, Gareth Brynmor-John, Abi Hyde-Smith and Jocelyn Freeman.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 24th March 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Previously unreleased recordings by Jessye Norman, Stravinsky from Klaus Mäkelä in Paris, variations by Beethoven and others from Cédric Tiberghien, and Beethoven & Ravel from Martha Argerich in Israel.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 17th March 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Mozart from Quatuor Ebène and Antoine Tamestit, Haydn's Stabat Mater from René Jacobs, a golden anniversary compilation from the Brodsky Quartet, and the world premiere recording of Porpora's Carlo il Calvo (starring Franco Fagioli and Max Cencic).

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 10th March 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Yuja Wang's 'American Project', plus Strauss from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Andris Nelsons, French Romantic rarities from Cyrille Dubois, and symphonic reflections on mortality from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 3rd March 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Tchaikovsky transcriptions by Yevgeny Sudbin, Silvestrov from Hélène Grimaud & Konstantin Krimmel, Mozart keyboard concertos from Robert Levin, the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr, and Haydn, Locke and Leith from the Ruisi Quartet.

  • New Release Round-up, New Release Round-Up - 24th February 2023

    by Katherine Cooper

    Bartók from the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Cristian Măcelaru, Stravinsky from Les Siècles and Ensemble Aedes, Brahms from Ning Feng and Zee Zee, and Rachmaninoff from the Choir of King's College London.