Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 16th August 2019
16th Aug 2019
Debut solo albums from Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov and award-winning South African tenor Levy Sekgapane, and music by Korngold for stage and screen.
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New Release Round-Up - 9th August 2019
9th Aug 2019
World premiere recordings of music by Ned Rorem, Dan Locklair and Airat Ichmouratov, plus vintage Erich Kleiber, Jean Martinon and Helen Watts from the Australian Eloquence archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd August 2019
2nd Aug 2019
New releases from Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivan Ilić, and Van Cliburn competition-winner Haochen Zhang, plus the penultimate instalment of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Rolando Villazón’s Mozart opera project on Deutsche Grammophon.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th July 2019
26th Jul 2019
New releases from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, and the Hilliard Ensemble in one of their final recordings.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th July 2019
19th Jul 2019
New releases from Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist Jan Vogler and the late Jörg Demus, plus world premiere recordings of operas by Goldschmidt and Cavalli, and the final instalment of Carus’s venerable Complete Schütz Edition.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th July 2019
12th Jul 2019
New releases from Nicola Benedetti, Gustavo Dudamel and percussionist Vivi Vassileva, plus a Rossini rarity from Bad Wildbad, Salome from the Salzburg Festival, and a celebration of the Verbier Festival’s 25th anniversary.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th July 2019
5th Jul 2019
New releases from Delphine Galou, Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra with Maxim Vengerov, plus landmark accounts of Delius’s Sea Drift and Weber’s Euryanthe from the archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 28th June 2019
28th Jun 2019
New releases include Grieg and Mendelssohn from Denis Kozhukhin, Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cramer from Howard Shelley, and Berlioz from Sir Andrew Davis.
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New Release Round-Up - 21st June 2019
21st Jun 2019
New recordings from Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux and Lawrence Zazzo, and Elizabeth Kenny, plus a Donizetti rarity and the complete remastered recordings of French violinist Ginette Neveu.
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New Release Round-Up - 14th June 2019
14th Jun 2019
New recordings from Renée Fleming, Herbert Blomstedt, Matthew Barley and Pieter Wispelwey, plus DVDs/Blu-rays of two operatic rarities: Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane and Mercadante’s Didone abbandonata.
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New Release Round-Up - 7th June 2019
7th Jun 2019
New recordings from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra of La Scala, Richard and Mika Stoltzman, Swedish chamber ensemble O/Modərnt, and the final instalment of the Hallé’s Ring Cycle under Sir Mark Elder, with Simon O’Neill as Siegfried.
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New Release Round-Up - 31st May 2019
31st May 2019
New recordings from Sandrine Piau, Angela Hewitt, Francesco Piemontesi, Trio Zimmermann, and Sakari Oramo, plus the world premiere DVD release of Samuel Barber's 1958 opera Vanessa.
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New Release Round-Up - 24th May 2019
24th May 2019
New releases from Korean-born violinist Joo Yeon Sir, James Ehnes and Sir Andrew Davis, and Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus a landmark Gioconda from the archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 17th May 2019
17th May 2019
New releases from Michael Fabiano, Magdalena Kožená, Il Giardino Armonico, Albrecht Mayer, and The Jerusalem Quartet, plus recitals by sopranos Anita Cerquetti and Graziella Sciutti from the archives.
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New Release Round-Up - 10th May 2019
10th May 2019
New releases from Lars Vogt, Elīna Garanča, Sophie Yates and Riccardo Chailly, plus a second helping of Thomas Beecham broadcasts courtesy of the archives of Richard Itter.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd May 2019
3rd May 2019
New releases from Steven Osborne, Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester, Ádám Fischer and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th April 2019
26th Apr 2019
New releases from the Belcea Quartet, Melvyn Tan, Jess Gillam, Julian Prégardien, and the Choir of St John’s College Cambridge.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th April 2019
19th Apr 2019
New releases from Vasily Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado, plus previously-unpublished Schumann and Wolf from Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th April 2019
12th Apr 2019
New albums from Evgeny Kissin & the Emerson Quartet, Renaud Capuçon & David Fray, Boris Giltburg, Florilegium, and Les Vents Français.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2019
5th Apr 2019
New albums from Christian Thielemann, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt, plus a collection of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Berlioz recordings.
