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New Release Round-Up - 31st January 2025
31st Jan 2025
Richard Rodney Bennett from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and John Wilson, Strauss from Renaud Capuçon, Schumann from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, and rare Italian piano concertos from Roberto Prosseda.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th January 2025
24th Jan 2025
Orff's Carmina Burana from Paavo Järvi in Zürich, a programme of music by refugee composers from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Busoni from Peter Donohoe, and Weinberg's The Passenger from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Teatro Real de Madrid.
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Christina Pluhar on Terra Mater
23rd Jan 2025
The director of L'Arpeggiata discusses the early music ensemble's 25th-birthday plans and their new album with Swedish mezzo Malena Ernman (released on Erato next Friday) which celebrates the natural world.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th January 2025
17th Jan 2025
Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Le Consort, a 500th-birthday tribute to Palestrina from Stile Antico, Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem, and Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins from the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle.
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Sergei Babayan on Rachmaninoff for Two
16th Jan 2025
The Armenian-American pianist talks about the art of transcription, late nights with Martha Argerich, recording with his former pupil Daniil Trifonov - and why he believes that teachers can learn as much from their students as vice versa...
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New Release Round-Up - 10th January 2025
10th Jan 2025
Francesco Scarlatti from Armonico Consort, French harpsichord music from Sophie Yates, Beethoven's Missa solemnis from Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer, and Debussy from The Nash Ensemble.
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Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic
3rd Jan 2025
This third volume of the British composer's orchestral works on Chandos features the world premiere recordings of Symphony No. 1, the Coronation Procession from 1953 and the elegy Ambarvalia, plus the Horn Concerto and Cringlemire Garden.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd January 2025
3rd Jan 2025
Four nineteenth-century bassoon concertos from the Tapiola Sinfonietta, Bach transcriptions from David Ponsford and David Hill, Karl Weigl's Symphony No. 3 from Jürgen Bruns, and a second volume of Schreker's orchestral works from Steven Sloane in Bochum.
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Benjamin Appl on Christmas in Regensburg
24th Dec 2024
The German baritone discusses returning to his old choir for his new Christmas album on Alpha Classics, and shares some of his childhood memories of the festive season.
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Barrie Kosky's phantasmagorical Fledermaus from Munich
20th Dec 2024
Georg Nigl, Diana Damrau and Katharina Konradi lead a stellar cast in the maverick Australian director's fever-dream production of Johann Strauss II's operetta about disguise, revenge and champagne, filmed last Christmas at the Bayerische Staatsoper with Vladimir Jurowski conducting.
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New Releases from Winter 2024
20th Dec 2024
Schubert Lieder from Philippe Jaroussky and Jérôme Ducros, Yuletide Treats from Duo Pleyel, Bruckner piano works from Mari Kodama, and a Bach-inspired recital from accordionist Ksenija Sidorova.
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Robert Treviño on American Opus
19th Dec 2024
The American conductor discusses his new album of works by George Walker, George Crumb and Silvestre Revueltas with the Basque National Orchestra, released on Ondine last month and described as 'thoroughly satisfying' by Limelight Magazine.
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Pene Pati on Rodolfo (and rugby!)
17th Dec 2024
As he makes his Covent Garden debut in Puccini's La bohème, the ebullient Samoan tenor discusses why he finds Puccini's impoverished poet such a relatable character, playing for the Cardiff Saracens when he moved from New Zealand to study in Wales, and how Kiri Te Kanawa helped to kickstart his international career.
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Tippett from Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
13th Dec 2024
Teeming with detail and infectious energy, these live recordings make superb cases for two works from the mid-1950s which had rocky starts in life: the Piano Concerto (with Steven Osborne on clear-headed form) and Symphony No. 2.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th December 2024
13th Dec 2024
Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie from Andris Nelsons in Boston, Bellini's I puritani starring Lisette Oropesa & Lawrence Brownlee, a Smetana bicentenary celebration from Petr Popelka in Prague, and the debut album from Lucy Illingworth (winner of Channel 4's The Piano).
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Bellini: I Puritani
Lawrence Brownlee (Lord Arturo Talbo), Lisette Oropesa (Elvira), Anthony Clark Evans (Sir Riccardo Forth), Riccardo Zanellato (Sir Giorgio Valton), Roxana Constantinescu (Enrichetta di Francia) Dresdner Philharmonie, MDR-Rundfunkchor, Riccardo Frizza
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Debbie Wiseman on The Mirror and the Light
11th Dec 2024
With Peter Kosminsky's dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's towering Tudor trilogy set to draw to a harrowing close on Sunday evening, the composer of the soundtrack discusses finding the delicate balance between past and present - and bringing the inner workings of the inscrutable Thomas Cromwell's mind to life in music...
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Christmas New Releases 2024
6th Dec 2024
A festive programme built around Palestrina from The Bevan Family Consort, music for Christmas and winter by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Vaughan Williams's Carols From Herefordshire (in two different versions), and a new Christmas oratorio from Gabriel Jackson.
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Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort
Daisy Bevan (soprano), Agnes Bevan (soprano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Tess Bevan (vocalist), Lizzy Bevan (vocalist), Francis Bevan (vocalist), Dom Bevan (tenor), Harry Bevan (tenor), David Bevan (baritone), Henry Bevan (baritone), Hugh Bevan (bass-baritone), Benny Bevan (bass-baritone), Michael Bevan (bass-baritone), Dominic Bevan (tenor), Bevan Family Consort, Graham Ross
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Benjamin Appl comes home for Christmas
29th Nov 2024
The German baritone reunites with his boyhood choir in Regensburg for a classy, introspective seasonal offering featuring oratorio arias and Christmas songs from Germany, England, France and Sweden, stylishly accompanied by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under Florian Helgath.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th November 2024
29th Nov 2024
Orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch from Tempesta di Mare, albums devoted to Tippett and Brett Dean from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and a new Christmas oratorio by British composer Edward Nesbit (setting poems by Henry Vaughan and text from the York Mystery Plays).
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Claire Booth on Pierrot Portraits
26th Nov 2024
Ahead of her Wigmore Hall recital this Friday, the intrepid soprano discusses her second recording-contribution to Schoenberg's 150th anniversary year - an album which sets his Pierrot lunaire alongside other works inspired by the commedia dell'arte figure.
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Pierrot Portraits
Claire Booth (soprano), Ensemble 360
