Latest stories
-
Lorin Maazel (1930-2014)
15th Jul 2014
American conductor who first recorded Porgy and Bess and took the New York Philharmonic to North Korea dies at the age of 84.
-
Presto CD - British Music Collection - Part 2
9th Jul 2014
Chris introduces the second batch of British Music Collection discs on our Manufacture On Demand label…
Featured product
Frederick Delius
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Charles Mackerras, Richard Hickox
More products from this article -
Manon Lescaut from Covent Garden
3rd Jul 2014
Plans are afoot for a DVD release of Jonathan Kent's current production from the Royal Opera House, starring Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann as the doomed lovers.
Featured product
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky) Orquestra De La Comunitat Valenciana & Cor De La Generalitat Valenciana, Omer Meir Wellber
More products from this article -
Presto CD - British Music Collection - Part 1
24th Jun 2014
Chris introduces the latest crop of Presto CDs, focusing on the British Music Collection from the archives of Philips, Decca and Argo.
-
Gramophone Editor's Choices - July 2014
21st Jun 2014
Chris introduces the Editor's Choices from this month's issue, which hit the news-stands yesterday.
-
Presto CD - Critics' Choice
10th Jun 2014
Introducing the next batch of Presto CDs, focussing on 26 discs from the renowned Critics' Choice series, including a number of BBC Radio 3 Building a Library top recommendations.
-
Alisa Weilerstein: 'Me, myself and I'…
4th Jun 2014
The American cellist is going solo for her next project on Decca Classics…
-
Presto CD - Gramophone Awards Collection
27th May 2014
Chris introduces the next batch of Presto CDs, focussing on 35 discs from the renowned Gramophone Awards Collection.
-
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Schumann
19th May 2014
Chris listens to the Berlin Philharmoniker's début recording on their own record label – the complete symphonies of Schumann, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
-
Igor Levit records Bach
17th May 2014
The Russian-German pianist tackles the Six Partitas, BWV 825–830.
-
Presto CD - launched today!
14th May 2014
Chris introduces Presto CDs, our new manufacture-on-demand service which supplies physical copies of discs which are otherwise deleted.
-
Steinbacher records Strauss
17th Apr 2014
German violinist Arabella Steinbacher joins the Strauss 150th anniversary celebrations with pianist Robert Kulek.
-
Hyperion launch The Classical Piano Concerto series
10th Apr 2014
Major recording project to begin with Dussek from Howard Shelley this summer.
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014
8th Apr 2014
Alisa Weilerstein wins the coveted Disc of the Year at the 2014 BBC Music Magazine Awards.
-
Stuart Skelton records Gerontius
2nd Apr 2014
ENO's acclaimed Peter Grimes is taken to heaven by Sarah Connolly in a new recording from Sir Andrew Davis.
-
Gil Shaham plays Violin Concertos from the 1930s
3rd Mar 2014
The American violinist kicks off a new project exploring the decade with concertos by Barber, Hartmann, Berg, Stravinsky and Britten.
-
Miloš plays guitar works by Rodrigo and de Falla
24th Feb 2014
The Montenegrin guitarist performs Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Fantasia para un Gentilhombre and Falla’s Homenaje a Debussy with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
-
CPE Bach Magnificat
10th Feb 2014
To mark the tercentenary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach’s fifth (and most prolific) child, Hans-Christoph Rademann directs the RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in a ‘punchy and agile’ account of his first large-scale choral work.
-
Russian Choral Music from Tenebrae
13th Jan 2014
Nigel Short directs his award-winning British vocal ensemble in a programme of ‘Russian Treasures’, including excerpts from Rachmaninov’s Vespers and little-known gems which are rarely performed outside Russia.
Featured product
Russian Treasures: Tenebrae
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
-
Beethoven Cello Sonatas from Isserlis and Levin
6th Jan 2014
Playing on period instruments, the cellist and fortepianist get the year off to a tremendous start with spellbinding accounts of the complete cello sonatas, variations, and a transcription of the horn sonata.
