Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 20th January 2023
20th Jan 2023
Joseph Jongen from Ivan Ilić, Mozart from Peter Donohoe, Mahler from Claudia Huckle and Nicky Spence, and veteran Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi in concert.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th January 2023
13th Jan 2023
Elgar's 'Viola Concerto' from Timothy Ridout, Beethoven from Midori and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lully's Psyché from Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset, and an album commemorating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes from The King's Singers & Fretwork.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th January 2023
6th Jan 2023
Poulenc from Véronique Gens, Janáček, Brahms & Bartók from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say, Malcolm Arnold from Michael Collins, and Reinecke from Simon Callaghan.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th December 2022
30th Dec 2022
A Purcell double-bill from Geneva-based ensemble Les Argonautes, an all-Mozart programme from French soprano Julie Fuchs, the conclusion of William Youn's Schubert piano sonatas project, and Italian baroque Christmas music from Dorothee Mields and Dorothee Oberlinger.
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New Releases from Winter 2022
16th Dec 2022
Christmas with Tenebrae, the first instalment of Angela Hewitt's Mozart sonatas cycle, Andrew Gourlay's Parsifal Suite, and a second helping of Ravel from Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th December 2022
9th Dec 2022
A powerful debut solo album from American soprano Julia Bullock, a Vaughan Williams rarity from Mark Bebbington and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Fanny Hensel from German pianist Sontraud Speidel, and Solti's legendary 1965 Die Walküre in a new remastering.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd December 2022
2nd Dec 2022
Late Beethoven from Maurizio Pollini, Mozart from the Chiaroscuro Quartet, Liszt from Leeds Piano Competition-winner Alim Beisembayev, and chamber works by Caroline Shaw.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th November 2022
25th Nov 2022
Florence Price's Songs of the Oak and Concert Overtures, Bach's Goldberg Variations from Fazil Say, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana starring Anita Rachvelishvili, and Shostakovich and Mahler from Jaap van Zweden in Hong Kong.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th November 2022
18th Nov 2022
Handel duets and arias from Lea Desandre and Iestyn Davies, Schubert's Schwanengesang from Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide, Christmas concertos from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, and Couperin from Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th November 2022
11th Nov 2022
Italian Baroque gems from Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima, sacred-inspired Liszt from the Orchester Wiener Akademie, Schumann from Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin, and a mythology-flavoured debut from Les Argonautes.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th November 2022
4th Nov 2022
Brahms & Clara Schumann from Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández, lesser-spotted Poulenc from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the late Bramwell Tovey, Cherubini's Les Abencérages from György Vashegyi, and Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with a cast headed by Nicky Spence.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th October 2022
28th Oct 2022
Dvořák from Leif Ove Andsnes, Rachmaninoff from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson, Schubert from Paul Lewis, and a recital of baroque works for violin 'tutta sola' from Rachel Podger.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st October 2022
21st Oct 2022
An homage to Pauline Viardot from Marina Viotti and Christophe Rousset, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from Gianandrea Noseda, the soundtrack to Tár (starring Cate Blanchett as a brilliant but flawed star conductor), and a cinematic anthology from Alexandre Tharaud.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th October 2022
14th Oct 2022
Today's new releases include Hans Rott from Jakub Hruša, Ruth Gipps from Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic, Mahler from Semyon Bychkov, and Lully's Acis et Galatée from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.
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Celebrating Vaughan Williams at 150
12th Oct 2022
Highlights from this year's plethora of new releases marking the composer's 150th birthday include world premiere recordings of Pan's Anniversary and a number of folk-song settings, a thrilling On Wenlock Edge from Scottish tenor Nicky Spence, and symphonies from Sir Mark Elder and Martyn Brabbins.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th October 2022
7th Oct 2022
A 'fan-letter' to György Kurtág from Víkingur Ólafsson, high-octane opera duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier, French bel canto arias from Lisette Oropesa, and Bach Orchestral Suites from John Butt and the Dunedin Consort.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th September 2022
30th Sep 2022
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor from Chineke!, an all-French programme from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and their new Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, Schubert from Ian Bostridge and the late Lars Vogt, and a celebration of neglected French composer Charlotte Sohy from new label La Boîte à Pépites.
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd September 2022
23rd Sep 2022
Bruckner from Iván Fischer, an impressive, genre-defying debut album from South African cellist Abel Selaocoe, Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage from Edward Gardner, and a sparkling collection of 'lost jewels' from Belgian soprano Jodie Devos.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th September 2022
16th Sep 2022
Weinberg from Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Bruckner from Simon Rattle, a stunning debut of Baroque rarities from Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá, and a Disney album from Lang Lang.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th September 2022
9th Sep 2022
Liszt, Wagner and Henze from Igor Levit, a wide-ranging song-inspired recital from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a celebration of two hundred years of Brazilian classical music, and Monteverdi from Jordi Savall.
