February heavyweights include French organist Olivier Latry's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, the Choir of King’s College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury's complete Argo recordings, anthologies celebrating the legacies of Zoltán Kocsis and Blandine Verlet, and Rossini opera box-sets on CD and DVD.
Released to mark the French harpsichordist's eightieth birthday in memoriam, this collection features nine albums which appear on CD for the first time; the repertoire includes two volumes of Scarlatti sonatas, early Mozart sonatas with the violinist Gerard Poulet, two albums devoted to the music of Duphly and Balbastre, and works by Mondonville, Chedeville, Francoeur and Leclair.
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Including juvenilia and fragments, this set was praised in the latest edition of BBC Music Magazine for Markovina's 'insightful and thoroughly researched music-making'; the Croatian pianist observes that 'when I engage with a composer, I need to know everything about him', a sentiment borne out by her mission to record CPE Bach's complete works for piano solo to mark the composer's tercentenary back in 2014.
Available Formats: 12 CDs, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, MP3
This first of four planned 10-CD anthologies marking the German label's fortieth birthday includes the Monteverdi Vespers, Magnificats by JC & CPE Bach, Hasse, Heinichen and Zelenka, JS Bach's complete motets, Telemann's Danzig Chorale Cantatas, a disc of Schubert hymns (with Peter Schreier), Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Saint-Saëns's Oratorio de Noël, and Mendelssohn's Von Himmel hoch.
Available Format: 10 CDs
This limited-edition set brings together three opere serie which Rossini composed in the course of a single prolific year; the recording of Ermione (starring Carmen Giannattasio, Colin Lee and Paul Nilon) won the Opera Category at the 2011 Gramophone Awards, whilst La donna del lago was praised by Gramophone for Kenneth Tarver's 'blissfully even and precise' coloratura as Giacomo.
Read our interview with Carmen Giannattasio about her roles on these recordings here.
Available Format: 8 CDs
