Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young Op.39 / 12 Pieces for Piano of Medium Difficulty, Op.40 Yuan Sheng (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 16/May/2022 ] Tchaikovsky's Children's Album Op. 39, is a collection of twenty-four pieces for children studying the piano. Inspired by Schumann's Album for the Young Op. 68, these pieces are musically satisfying with imaginative titles and settings. . |
FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Music Martina Frezzotti (piano) [ Piano Classics / CD - released 15/May/2022 ] Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was born in Hamburg in November 1805, the eldest of four siblings. The Mendelssohn family, of Jewish lineage, and belonging in the upper bourgeois class, gave a brilliant cultural education to their four children. |
CHRISTIAN RUMMEL
Rummel: Chamber Music for Clarinet & Piano Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet) Claudia Bracco (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/May/2022 ] Christian Rummel (1787-1849) was born in Gollachostheim, Bavaria. He received his musical instruction in Mannheim under the kapellmeister Karl Jakob Wagner when the latter was living at Wuerzburg and the violinist Heinrich Ritter. |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor & Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Aaarhus Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Royal Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent [ Alto / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] "(His) Symphony is a very likeable discovery. Both middle movements display a disarming melodic felicity and assurance, and admiring glances towards DvoĆák, although Stanford (his teacher) was never happy with the finale. It was first played by RCM... |
ERIC SATIE
Satie (LP) Aldo Ciccolini (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 13/May/2022 ] A special re-release for Record Store Day 2016, this LP of Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes and other piano pieces by Erik Satie salutes Aldo Ciccolini, the Italian-born pianist who launched the Satie 'boom' when this album first appeared in 1956. Whether... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Complete Piano Solos & Transcriptions Alexey Zuev (piano) [ Fuga Libera / 5 CD Box Set - released 13/May/2022 ] Every recording of Stravinsky's 'complete works for solo piano' is a considerable achievement. This set is a cause for special celebration for it also includes all of Stravinsky's piano transcriptions and arrangements. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 6 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Haydn's 30 Piano Trios were written at a time when the harpsichord was being replaced by the pianoforte and when a parallel change saw the emergence of sonata-allegro form. |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: String Quartets Vol. 2 - String Quartets Nos. 1, 7 & 11 Arcadia Quartet [ Chandos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] For this the second volume in their series of Weinberg's string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet again presents three quartets from contrasting periods in the stylistic development of the composer. The first quartet of the self-taught teenager, written... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 / etc Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme conductor [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] The centerpiece of this Tchaikovsky program is the famous Serenade for Strings Op.48. It was composed in September and October 1880, freely and without commission. |
CHRISTOS TZIFAKIS
Tzifakis: Flamenco Odyssey Christos Tzifakis (guitar) / Chamber Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Athens-born Christos Tzifakis has performed internationally as a solo classical guitarist and composed widely for solo guitar, flamenco-jazz groups and for the theatre. Flamenco Odyssey is one of his major works in which he allows the listener to... |