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New Release Round-Up - 12th February 2021
12th Feb 2021by Katherine Cooper
Italian baroque music from La Serenissima, new works by Raymond Yiu, Bright Sheng and Martin Suckling, and a rare outing for Luigi Rossi's extravagant 1647 opera L'Orfeo.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th February 2021
5th Feb 2021by Katherine Cooper
Weinberg from Gidon Kremer, Schnittke from Daniel Hope, Janáček from Lars Vogt, and Gesualdo from Les Arts Florissants.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th January 2020
29th Jan 2021by Katherine Cooper
Rachmaninov from Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Winterreise from Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside, Bach from Piotr Anderszewski, and reflections on mortality from Stephen Hough.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd January 2021
22nd Jan 2021by Katherine Cooper
Haydn from Il Giardino Armonico, Salieri from Les Talens Lyriques, Prokofiev from Nicholas Angelich, and Romberg from Chouchane Siranossian.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th January 2021
15th Jan 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Plaisirs illuminés from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Camerata Bern, Behzod Abduraimov's debut recital on Alpha, Telemann from Holland Baroque, and Nathalie Stutzmann in baroque opera arias with Orfeo 55.
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Vinyl Round-Up - January 2021
14th Jan 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Highlights amongst recent and forthcoming vinyl releases include Itzhak Perlman's mid-1980s recordings of solo Bach, Anna Clyne's Mythologies, and Mariss Jansons's final concert from Carnegie Hall.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th January 2021
8th Jan 2021by Chris O'Reilly
Machaut from the Orlando Consort, Reicha from Ivan Ilić, Weinberg from the Arcadia Quartet, and an engaging debut album from baritone James Newby.
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Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2020
18th Dec 2020by Chris O'Reilly
A selection of our best-selling titles from autumn and winter, from artists including the late Mariss Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Christian Thielemann, and the Choir of King's College Cambridge.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th December 2020
11th Dec 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Beethoven from Emmanuel Pahud, Daniel Barenboim and friends, Gombert masses from Beauty Farm, ‘Songs of Comfort and Joy’ from Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, and two Mosolov world premiere recordings.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th December 2020
4th Dec 2020by Chris O'Reilly
World premiere recordings of orchestral works by Elisabetta Brusa and the original Roman version of Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran, the recording debut of the young American pianist Paul Ji, and a boxed set celebrating Adrian Boult’s relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th November 2020
27th Nov 2020by Katherine Cooper
Prokofiev and Myaskovsky from Vasily Petrenko, Puccini's Il tabarro from Marek Janowski, Martinů from Frank Peter Zimmermann, and a celebration of 'Queen of Baroque' Cecilia Bartoli.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th November 2020
20th Nov 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Stanford’s string quintets from members of the Dante and Endellion quartets, an explosive new work for wind ensemble by Mark Simpson, a transatlantic recital from violinist Callum Smart, and Vivaldi’s long-lost pasticcio Argippo from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
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Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita
Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
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New Release Round-Up - 13th November 2020
13th Nov 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Sacred baroque rarities from Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse, a Christmas album from Jonas Kaufmann, Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives from Simon Rattle, and the world premiere recording of Vladimir Martynov’s Utopia Symphony.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th November 2020
6th Nov 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Carnival of the Animals from the Kanneh-Mason family, Brahms and Schumann from Elīna Garanča and Malcolm Martineau, Beethoven from Martin Helmchen and Andrew Manze, and Thalberg from Paul Wee.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th October 2020
30th Oct 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Bach from Pavel Kolesnikov, Tavener from Steven Isserlis, Vaughan Williams from Martyn Brabbins, and the final instalment of The Tallis Scholars’s complete Josquin masses on Gimell.
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 & Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
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New Release Round-Up - 23rd October 2020
23rd Oct 2020by Chris O'Reilly
World premiere recordings of Dussek’s late Messe Solemnelle and Hahn’s early opera L'île du rêve, Schumann and Klengel Cello Concertos from Raphaela Gromes, and John Sheppard’s Media vita from the Choir of New College Oxford.
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New Release Round-Up - 16th October 2020
16th Oct 2020by Chris O'Reilly
An eclectic debut recording from Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, Bruckner from Christian Thielemann, Beethoven from Midori, and five vivid orchestral works by Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th October 2020
9th Oct 2020by Katherine Cooper
Bach in lockdown from Anna Prohaska and friends, Mozart, Schubert and Liszt from Sophie Pacini, a French song recital with guitar from Laurent Naouri, and Passiontide music by Andreas Hammerschmidt from Vox Luminis.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd October 2020
2nd Oct 2020by Chris O'Reilly
Donizetti from Diana Damrau and Sir Antonio Pappano, Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, Haydn from the Doric Quartet, and Brahms, Bartók and Liszt from Alexandre Kantorow.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th September 2020
25th Sep 2020by Chris O'Reilly
New Beethoven recordings from Angela Hewitt and Daniel Lozakovich, Cramer from Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players, Bach from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion, and a 150th anniversary celebration of Vítězslav Novák.