Classical Recommendations
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New Release Round-Up - 10th October 2025
10th Oct 2025
Golden Age duets and arias from Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee, early Mozart from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Tippett, Britten and Walton from Clare Hammond, and a collection of recent secular choral works by Sir John Rutter.
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New Release Round-Up - 3rd October 2025
3rd Oct 2025
A lute song recital with a difference from countertenor Reginald Mobley, Dvořák from Sir Simon Rattle and the Czech Philharmonic, a Parisian love-letter from guitarist Alexandra Whittingham, and Elgar & Adès from Christian Tetzlaff.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th September 2025
26th Sep 2025
Neapolitan songs from Pene Pati, a celebration of John Rutter from Clare College Cambridge, Telemann from Isabelle Faust and friends, and Vaughan Williams from the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th September 2025
19th Sep 2025
John Rutter's piano concerto Reflections from Steven Osborne (with the composer conducting), Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 from Francesco Piemontesi, a ninetieth-birthday tribute to Arvo Pärt from the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, and Saint-Saëns's 1906 opera L'Ancêtre from Kazuki Yamada.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th September 2025
12th Sep 2025
Vivaldi's La Gloria e Imeneo from Andrea Buccarella, a birthday greeting to Arvo Pärt from Georgijs Osokins, Songs of Passion from Lea Desandre and Thomas Dunford, and an Errollyn Wallen premiere from Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th September 2025
5th Sep 2025
Tippett's A Child of Our Time from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart's Idomeneo from Sir Simon Rattle in Munich, Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No. 5 from Edward Gardner in Bergen, and Schubert from Sandrine Piau and Quatuor Psophos.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th August 2025
29th Aug 2025
William Grant Still and Margaret Bonds from the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bach albums from Mahan Esfahani and Isabelle Faust, and the world premiere recording of Jake Heggie's new opera Intelligence from Houston Grand Opera.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd August 2025
22nd Aug 2025
A second volume of Mozart from Federico Colli, songs of the Belle Époque from Adèle Charvet and Florian Caroubi, Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres in the title-roles, and Haydn's The Seasons from Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th August 2025
15th Aug 2025
Early Shostakovich from John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic, Schubert + Beethoven from Can Çakmur, British piano quintets from Peter Donohoe and I Musicanti, and Agricola from Austrian early music ensemble Beauty Farm.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th August 2025
8th Aug 2025
Bach, Telemann and Albinoni from Ensemble Masques, Brahms from Mikhail Zemtsov, the world premiere recording of Florence Price's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, and music from Italy, Iberia & the Black Sea from Avi Avital and friends.
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New Release Round-Up - 1st August 2025
1st Aug 2025
A celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th birthday, the world premiere recording of Antonia Bembo's 1707 opera L'Ercole amante, Max Reger from Jaime Martín, and a radiant collaboration between The Gesualdo Six and trumpeter Matilda Lloyd.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th July 2025
25th Jul 2025
Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and more from Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, Ginastera from the Miró Quartet, a triptych of orchestral works by Liza Lim, and a nature-themed album from Venezuelan male soprano Samuel Mariño.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th July 2025
18th Jul 2025
Messiaen from Yuja Wang and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Chloe Chua and the Singapore Symphony, solo Bach from Céline Frisch, and historical recordings of Poulenc playing his own music and that of Satie.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th July 2025
11th Jul 2025
Shostakovich from Cuarteto Casals, Steve Reich's Jacob's Ladder and Traveler's Prayer, this year's summer concert from the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, and choral works by the Mendelssohn siblings from the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th July 2025
4th Jul 2025
Schubert from Steven Osborne, Rachmaninoff from Alexander Melnikov and Julia Lezhneva, Handel from Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, and Mozart from Andrè Schuen.
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New Release Round-Up - 27th June 2025
27th Jun 2025
British and American music for brass ensemble from Onyx Brass and John Wilson, Kurtág's Kafka Fragments from Susan Narucki and Curtis Macomber, CPE Bach from Ryo Terakado and Fabio Bonizzoni, and Martinů from Vilém Vlček and Denis Linnik.
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New Release Round-Up - 20th June 2025
20th Jun 2025
Haydn from Kammerorchester Basel and Giovanni Antonini, Biber from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort, Mendelssohn's Ein Sommernachtstraum from Pablo Heras-Casado in Freiburg, and fin de siècle French music from the Neave Trio.
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New Release Round-Up - 13th June 2025
13th Jun 2025
A Pan-European programme from La Serenissima, Stravinsky and Ravel from Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, Bach from Francesco Tristano, and Brahms's clarinet sonatas (in new orchestrations by Stephan Koncz) from Daniel Ottensamer and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
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New Release Round-Up - 6th June 2025
6th Jun 2025
Debussy and Messiaen from Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida, Sibelius from Nicholas Collon and Christian Tetzlaff with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mozart from Angela Hewitt, and Haydn from the Chiaroscuro Quartet.
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New Release Round-Up - 30th May 2025
30th May 2025
Tchaikovsky from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Alpesh Chauhan, a second helping of British orchestral anthems from Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of Merton College Oxford, Ligeti concertos from Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth, and Anna Lapwood's eclectic new album Firedove.
