As many of you have written to us over the past few months expressing an interest in new and forthcoming vinyl titles, we've decided to take a leaf out of our jazz colleagues' book and introduce a quarterly round-up of highlights; stand-out releases from last autumn and early 2021 include Itzhak Perlman's mid-1980s recordings of Bach's solo partitas and sonatas, Anna Clyne's colourful Mythologies on Avie, and Mariss Jansons's final concert from Carnegie Hall, featuring Brahms's Symphony No. 4 and orchestral excerpts from Strauss’s Intermezzo.
Forthcoming releases
JS Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Recorded in Bronxville, New York in 1986/87, these recordings were praised by Classics Today for the American-Israeli violinist's 'sweetly singing, tonally generous, and technically irreproachable playing' and 'heartfelt musicianship and tasteful instincts'. Perlman uses two remarkable instruments here: the 'Soil' Stradivarius for the sonatas in C major and A minor, and the Guarneri del Gesù 'ex-Sauret' for the rest of the programme.
Released 22nd January.
Available Format: 3 Vinyl Records
Anna Clyne: Mythologies
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton
One of our Top 100 Recordings of 2020, this album presents five of the British composer's orchestral works: Masquerade (which opened the Last Night of the Proms in 2013), This Midnight Hour, The Seamstress (a single-movement work for violin and orchestra inspired by a WB Yeats poem), Night Ferry, and <<rewind<<.
Released 5th February.
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
Haydn 2032, Vol. 8: La Roxolana
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Volume Eight of Antonini’s mammoth Haydn project takes its title from Symphony No. 63 (named after the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent), and also includes Nos. 43 (the Mercury) and 28, plus the anonymous Sonata Jucunda and – to point up the Hungarian folk influences in these works – Bartók’s Romanian Dances from 1917.
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
Recent releases
Mariss Jansons: His Last Concert, Live at Carnegie Hall
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
This live recording captures the Latvian conductor’s final performance, given at Carnegie Hall on 8th November last year just a few weeks before his death; the programme features the Four Symphonic Interludes from Strauss’s Intermezzo and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Emotions
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano)
On the sequel to their 2018 album Intuition (‘spectacular playing by any standards’ – Gramophone), Capuçon and Ducros present another programme of popular miniatures, including Monti’s Csardas, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Schubert’s Ave Maria, Einaudi’s Una Mattina and Albinoni’s Adagio as well as works by Marguerite Monnot, David Bevilacqua, Max Richter and Michael Nyman.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
Time
Jess Gillam (saxophone), Jess Gillam Ensemble
Michael Nyman’s Where the Bee Dances (written in 1991 for Gillam’s teacher John Harle) is at the centre of the exuberant young saxophonist’s second album for Decca, which also includes music by Max Richter, Björk, Anna Meredith, Philip Glass, James Blake, and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.
Listen to Jess discussing the album with Paul Thomas on the Presto Podcast here.
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
Segreto
Ennio Morricone
Featuring seven previously unreleased tracks, this collection focuses on music which the late Italian composer wrote between the late 1960s and early 1980s, and includes Eat It (1969), Fuggire Lontano (1971), Jukebox Psychédélique (1975), and an extract from Sinfonia di una città (1983).
Available Format: 2 Vinyl Records
Růžička: Garden Of Silence
Karel Růžička (piano)
To mark what would have been the eightieth birthday of Czech pianist and composer Karel Růžička (1940–2016), Supraphon present his hitherto-unreleased final recording, made in 2010 and featuring solo piano works including Theoloniously Yours, F Sharp Fits Everywhere, Bitonal Blues, and Prague.
Available Format: Vinyl Record
