Classical Recommendations
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A Schumann rarity from Rattle and the LSO
14th Jan 2015
Simon Rattle gives an outing to a forgotten Schumann delight, Das Paradies und die Peri.
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Nick van Bloss
18th Dec 2014
The English pianist turns his attention to Beethoven, with a recording of the Diabelli Variations and the Appassionata in the pipeline.
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Steven Isserlis takes on Prokofiev and Shostakovich
26th Nov 2014
The British cellist records two great twentieth-century Russian concertos for Hyperion.
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Beethoven from the Elias String Quartet
11th Nov 2014
A new complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets performed by the Elias String Quartet, on the Wigmore Hall Live label.
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Philippe Jaroussky sings Verlaine settings
30th Oct 2014
The countertenor returns to late-Romantic French song for his next project on Erato.
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Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and the RLPO
23rd Oct 2014
Onyx Classics announce the commencement of a new cycle of Vaughan Williams's symphonies.
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Four rarities from Opera Rara
9th Oct 2014
Sir Mark Elder reveals four forthcoming projects, focusing on French bel canto and verismo.
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A new musical 'exhibition' from NMC Records.
3rd Oct 2014
The contemporary music label celebrate their 25th birthday by collaborating with London's Science Museum.
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Barry, G: The Importance of Being Earnest
Barbara Hannigan (Cecily), Peter Tantsits (Jack Worthing), Joshua Bloom (Algernon), Katalin Károlyi (Gwendoline), Hilary Summers (Miss Prism), Alan Ewing (Lady Bracknell), Benjamin Bevan (Lane/Merriman), Joshua Hart (Dr Chasuble) BCMG, Thomas Adès
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Simon Keenlyside sings show-tunes
28th Aug 2014
The great British baritone takes a break from Rigolettos and Traviatas to try his hand at Tevye, Curly, Billy Bigelow and Fagin…
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Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
5th Aug 2014
New album will explore music written for three tsarinas in eighteenth-century St Petersburg.
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Gerstein records Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
2nd Aug 2014
Russian-American Pianist Kirill Gerstein is set to make the world premiere recording of the rare 2nd edition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, alongside Prokofiev's No. 2.
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Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia
23rd Jul 2014
Star countertenors Max Cencic and Franco Fagioli go head-to-head in the first-ever recording of Johann Adolf Hasse's 1733 opera.
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Kasper Holten's Don Giovanni
16th Jul 2014
A provocative production of Mozart's "rake's progress" from the director of the Royal Opera House is to be released on DVD in the autumn.
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Joyce DiDonato - Stella di Napoli
5th Jul 2014
The American mezzo explores the highways and byways of Neapolitan bel canto for her next project…
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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.
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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
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Callas Remastered
18th Jun 2014
Warner 'photoshop' La Divina's complete studio recordings for reissue in a beautiful boxed set later this year…
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Alisa Weilerstein: 'Me, myself and I'…
4th Jun 2014
The American cellist is going solo for her next project on Decca Classics…
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Paul Lewis's next project…
29th May 2014
The British pianist turns his attention to Schumann and Mussorgsky.
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Chailly returns to Brahms
22nd May 2014
Following the huge success of his Brahms symphonies, the Italian conductor is currently recording the Serenades in Leipzig.
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Igor Levit records Bach
17th May 2014
The Russian-German pianist tackles the Six Partitas, BWV 825–830.
