Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 2nd February 2018
2nd Feb 2018
Stravinsky from Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin, Prokofiev from Lisa Batiashvili and Brahms from Thomas Dausgaard.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th January 2018
26th Jan 2018
Mozart from Piotr Anderszewski, Lully from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Bartók from Pablo Heras-Casado, and a warmly engaging debut from teenage cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th January 2018
19th Jan 2018
Mahler from Mariss Jansons, a superb Winterreise from Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Dvořák from the Jerusalem Quartet and guests are among the pick of today's new recordings.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th January 2018
12th Jan 2018
Today's highlights include breathtaking Handel from Franco Fagioli, peerless Bach from Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout, and a new Jake Heggie opera starring Joyce DiDonato in the title-role.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th January 2018
5th Jan 2018
One of Jiří Bělohlávek's final recordings, the third instalment of John Wilson's exceptional Copland series, and a rarity by Elizabeth Maconchy.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th December 2017
29th Dec 2017
Debussy from Stephen Hough, Bach from Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Brahms and Schumann from Yvgeny Sudbin and friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd December 2017
22nd Dec 2017
The continuation of the Elias Quartet’s Beethoven, an album of choral works composed by one of Britain’s best-loved baritones, and a celebration of Venice’s eclectic musical history from Jordi Savall are among this fortnight’s new releases.
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Ones that got away - Autumn/Winter 2017
15th Dec 2017
Ten recent releases which struck us as something special, from artists including Wilhelm Kempff, Christian Tetzlaff and Steven Osborne.
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New Release Round-up - 8th December 2017
8th Dec 2017
Matthew Bourne's sensational ballet The Car Man (drawing on music from Bizet's opera) on DVD and Blu-ray, plus new recordings from artists including Joseph Moog, Philippe Herreweghe, and the Sacconi Quartet.
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New Release Round-up - 1st December 2017
1st Dec 2017
Including new albums from Masaaki Suzuki, Daniel Müller-Schott, the Sacconi Quartet, and Kent Nagano.
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New Release Round-up - 24th November 2017
24th Nov 2017
This week's highlights include new productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Der fliegende Holländer, plus two early celebrations of next year's Bernstein centenary.
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New Release Round-up - 17th November 2017
17th Nov 2017
Today's headline releases include new recordings from Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, award-winning vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, and Chopin Competition victor Seong-Jin Cho.
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New Release Round-up - 10th November 2017
10th Nov 2017
Today’s stand-out releases include new recordings from Fretwork, Sabine Devieilhe, Accademia Bizantina, and Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-up - 3rd November 2017
3rd Nov 2017
Today's outstanding new releases include a starry account of Schubert's Trout Quintet, an ethereal new opera by Kaija Saariaho, and a trilogy of spring-inspired works from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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New Release Round-up - 27th October 2017
27th Oct 2017
Including new albums from Steven Isserlis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Pretty Yende and Quatuor Mosaïques.
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New Release Round-up - 20th October 2017
20th Oct 2017
Including new albums from Marianne Crebassa, James Ehnes, Angela Gheorghiu and others.
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New Release Round-up - 13th October 2017
13th Oct 2017
Including two persuasive cases for Mozart's early works, plus new recordings from John Eliot Gardiner, Lars Vogt, and Vasily Petrenko.
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New Release Round-up - 6th October 2017
6th Oct 2017
Including new albums from Juan Diego Flórez, Philippe Jaroussky, the Gabrieli Consort, and George Li.
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New Release Round-up - 29th September 2017
29th Sep 2017
Including Dvořák from the Takács Quartet, duets from Carolyn Sampson and Iestyn Davies and a new recording of Peter and the Wolf with Alexander Armstrong.
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New Release Round-up - 22nd September 2017
22nd Sep 2017
Including a new duet disc from Rollando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov, Saint-Saëns from Martha Argerich and Antonio Pappano, and French songs from Thomas Hampson.
