Classical Recommendations
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Katya Kabanova from Simon Rattle and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jan 2024
Amanda Majeski and Katarina Dalayman go head-to-head in Janáček's opera from the Barbican, Elīna Garanča makes her Wagner debut on a live Parsifal from Vienna, and Domingo Hindoyan and the Liverpool Philharmonic mark this year's Bruckner bicentenary.
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova
Amanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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Puccini from Angela Gheorghiu and other forthcoming highlights
19th Dec 2023
The Romanian soprano marks the centenary of Puccini's death with a recital of his songs on Signum, with other stand-outs for the beginning of the year including Tosti from Javier Camarena, Lalo from Neeme Järvi, and Samson et Dalila from Covent Garden on DVD & Blu-ray.
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Delius's A Mass of Life from Sir Mark Elder and other forthcoming highlights
30th Oct 2023
Delius's Nietzsche-inspired Mass gets luxury treatment from Bergen, with other stand-outs for late 2023 and early 2024 including Carolyn Sampson's 100th recording, Bach's The Art of Fugue from Christophe Rousset, and a tribute to Lionel Tertis from Timothy Ridout.
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Delius: Eine Messe des Lebens
Roderick Williams (baritone), Gemma Summerfield (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder
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Verismo from Domingo Hindoyan and other forthcoming highlights
19th Sep 2023
The Venezuelan conductor and his Liverpool orchestra thrill in preludes & intermezzi by Mascagni, Cilea, Wolf-Ferrari et al, with other stand-outs for late autumn including Saint-Saëns from Les Siècles & François-Xavier Roth and a Norwegian Christmas album from Lise Davidsen.
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Satie & Cage from Bertrand Chamayou and other forthcoming highlights
29th Aug 2023
Stand-out releases for the autumn also include French repertoire from Steven Osborne, Alexandre Tharaud and Bruce Liu, Baroque albums from Miloš Karadaglić and Avi Avital, and the final instalment of Andris Nelsons's Shostakovich cycle from Boston.
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Oklahoma! from John Wilson and other forthcoming highlights
2nd Aug 2023
Sierra Boggess and Nathaniel Hackmann head the cast on Wilson's complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1943 musical, with other early autumn highlights including albums from Isabelle Faust, Anna Lapwood and Jakub Józef Orliński.
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
Nathaniel Hackmann (Curly), Sierra Boggess (Laurey), Rodney Earl Clarke (Jud Fry), Jamie Parker (Will Parker), Louise Dearman (Ado Annie), Sandra Marvin (Aunt Eller), Nadim Naaman (Ali Hakim), Leo Roberts (Andrew Carnes), Oklahoma! Ensemble, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Bach's Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson and other forthcoming highlights
10th Jul 2023
A second Bach recording from the Icelandic pianist is among the stand-out releases for the autumn, alongside Rachmaninoff concertos from Yuja Wang in Los Angeles, Fauré from Marc-André Hamelin, and a cinematic album from Jonas Kaufmann...
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Monteverdi from Raphaël Pichon and other forthcoming highlights
13th Jun 2023
A studio recording of the Vespro della Beata Vergine from Pygmalion is among the stand-out releases for late summer, with other highlights including Locatelli concertos from Isabelle Faust and the Ysaÿe solo sonatas from Hilary Hahn.
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Katie Mitchell's staging of Handel's Theodora and other forthcoming highlights
17th Apr 2023
Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński star in the British director's hard-hitting Covent Garden production from 2022, with other highlights including Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor from the Takács Quartet, scenes of childhood from Isata Kanneh-Mason, and American countertenor Reginald Mobley's debut recording of spirituals on Alpha Classics.
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Michael Spyres's Contra-Tenor and other forthcoming highlights
9th Mar 2023
The sequel to Baritenor sees the American singer exploring the Baroque tradition of the 'tenore assoluto', with other late spring highlights including Shostakovich from the Berliner Philharmoniker & Kirill Petrenko, CPE Bach sonatas from Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and music by Roberto Sierra from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan.
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Turandot from Antonio Pappano and other forthcoming highlights
31st Jan 2023
Sondra Radvanovsky and Jonas Kaufmann head the cast in a new studio recording of Puccini's final opera, with other spring highlights including the debut recording of Djibouti-born guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre, and a brief history of the French ténor de grâce from Cyrille Dubois.
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Puccini: Turandot
Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
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Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust and other forthcoming highlights
11th Jan 2023
Other stand-out releases for early spring include a second album of English music for strings from John Wilson & Sinfonia of London, Schumann & Brahms from Benjamin Grosvenor, and world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds's Credo & Simon Bore the Cross.
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Véronique Gens in La Voix Humaine and other forthcoming highlights
14th Dec 2022
Other stand-out releases for early 2023 include Clara and Robert Schumann from Beatrice Rana, Mompou from Stephen Hough, Beethoven & Schubert from Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida, and Czech harpsichord concertos from Mahan Esfahani.
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Handel's Theodora from Maxim Emelyanychev and other autumn highlights
7th Sep 2022
Lisette Oropesa heads a starry cast on Il Pomo d'Oro's upcoming recording of Handel's dramatic oratorio about religious persecution in ancient Rome, plus Dvořák from Leif Ove Andsnes, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and Ruth Gipps from the BBC Philharmonic.
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Igor Levit's Tristan and other forthcoming highlights
16th Aug 2022
Other stand-out releases for the autumn include French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, Szymanowski from Krystian Zimerman, Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, and a Kurtág-inspired musical autobiography from Víkingur Ólafsson.
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John Wilson in Hollywood and other forthcoming highlights
20th Jul 2022
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.
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Jonathan Tetelman's debut solo recording and other forthcoming highlights
16th Jun 2022
The Chilean-American tenor's album of French and Italian opera arias will be released in August, with other stand-out releases for late summer including Mahler from François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles, Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope, and Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente from Anna Prohaska and Isabelle Faust.
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John Williams's new violin concerto and other forthcoming highlights
29th Mar 2022
Other stand-out releases for May and beyond include Brahms from the Pavel Haas Quartet and friends, a recital of Polish songs from Jakub Józef Orlinski and Michał Biel, and male soprano Samuel Mariño's debut album on Decca.
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Mitsuko Uchida's Diabelli Variations and other forthcoming highlights
10th Feb 2022
Other stand-out releases for March and April include Franco-Italian recitals from tenors Benjamin Bernheim and Pene Pati, Rachmaninov from Asmik Grigorian, and Sibelius from the young Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä.
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Bach Passions from Raphaël Pichon and John Eliot Gardiner
19th Jan 2022
Other upcoming highlights for the spring include a Strauss collection from Andris Nelsons, an autobiographical new recording from 97-year-old pianist Ruth Slenczynska, and Weinberg from Gidon Kremer.
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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