Below is a list of all classical CD titles released in the last 120 days.
SEGEI RUDNEV
Rudnev: Music for Guitar Sergei Rudnov, Aynur Begutov, Anton Baranov, Rovshan Mamedkuliev, Vladimir Mityakov (guitars) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Russian guitarist and composer Sergei Ivanovich Rudnev was born in 1955 in Tula. In 1975 he graduated in the accordion and balalaika class of Tula's "Dargomyzhsky" Conservatory, and while attending this school he studied guitar. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies, Overtures & Hungarian Dances Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard [ BIS SACD / 4 CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Brahms' symphonies and much more in Thomas Dausgaard's interpretations. |
MAURICE GUILLAUME
In simplicitate cordis Various Artists [ Cypres Records / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Cypres is celebrating its 30th anniversary in this 2021/2022 season, which is so special for culture. This second volume of the Cypres_Imep collection has offered students of the Royal Institute of Music and Pedagogy in Namur the opportunity to... |
Various Artists
Viva! 30 ans d'art choral [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion, it has decided to bring together nineteen excerpts from recordings made by ensembles it has supported since 1989, thanks to the... |
RAMEAU / POULENC / DEBUSSY / BRITTEN / KODALY etc
Viva! 30 ans d'art choral (LP version) Various Artists [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion, it has decided to bring together nineteen excerpts from recordings made by ensembles it has supported since 1989, thanks to the... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (with works by Scriabin) (LP) Yevgeny Kissin (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] In 1988 pianist Evgeny Kissin, then 17 years old, started his world career with an electrifying interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Berliner Philharmoniker's New Year's Eve Concert. |
LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 5 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Haydn worked during a period that witnessed a great deal of stylistic change, including the evolution of keyboard instruments from the harpsichord to the pianoforte with its hammer action and greater dynamic flexibility. |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha Overture / Petite Suite / Gipsy Suite / etc RTE Concert Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] The Hiawatha trilogy, with its stirring overture, established Coleridge-Taylor as one of Britain's leading young composers and stimulated commissions in a wide variety of music. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Sonatas / Fantasia in C minor Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 18/Feb/2022 ] 'Leonskaja always treads the tightrope between prettiness and excessive emphases...Perfection? For me, it's a yes. Can we have the Haydn and even the Beethoven sonatas complete from Leonskaja in good time, please?' BBC Recording of the Month April 20 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Dualità EmÅ‘ke Baráth (soprano) / Ensemble Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky [ Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "She provides a sonic feast: rich bottom-register timbre, brilliant yet voluptuous top notes and a pure core that energises even her longest lines." BBC Music Opera Choice April 2022 |
BIZET / BRANDL / FALLA / GLAZUNOV / GLUCK / HEUBERGER / etc
Fritz Kreisler - The Complete Recordings Vol. 11 Fritz Kreisler (violin) [ Naxos Historial Great Violinists / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Three Early Operas: Ermione / La Donna del Lago / Bianca e Falliero Gregory Kunde, Carmen Giannattasio, Douglas d'Angus, Patricia Bardon, Majella Cullagh, Jennifer Larmore / David Parry, Maurizio Benini (conds) [ Opera Rara / 8 CD Box Set - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Opera Rara presents a new Opera Rara Classics boxset with a limited edition of three sought-after opere serie by Gioachino Rossini, performed by international bel canto champions. Now remastered to the best audio quality. |
ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Complete Incidental Music to Much Ado About Nothing & Der Vampir Hans Jörg Mammel (tenor) Ekkehard Abele (narrator) / Holst-Sinfonietta Chorus, Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Korngold's greatest critical successes lay in the field of opera and in his film scores. The early sets of incidental music reflect these two elements, sharing the theatrical bravura of opera and anticipating his own later filmic techniques. The... |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas (from Op. 1, 10 & 12) HyeJin Kim (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] A native of Rome, Muzio Clementi was 'discovered' by the wealthy Beckford family of Dorset in England, where the foundations for a distinguished international professional career as a composer and performer were laid. Clementi's legacy to pianists... |
CAVALLI / VIVALDI / CESTI / STRADELLA / SARTORIO / LEGRENZI / etc
Ian Bostridge - Tormento d'amore Ian Bostridge (tenor), Cappella Neapolitana, Antonio Florio [ Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] With the 10 arias on Tormento d'amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Nocturnes Jan Lisiecki (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "As he showed in his two previous Chopin releases, the 26-year-old Lisiecki is a player of exceptional poise and refinement. Everything here conveys a sense of ease, the singing line always beautifully brought out in the right hand." BBC Music Five S |
LEOŠ JANÁCEK / ZOLTÁN KODÁLY / ANTONÍN DVORÁK / VITESZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ
Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest Laura van der Heijden (cello) Jâms Coleman (piano) [ Chandos / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] The label début of the Exclusive Chandos Artist Laura van der Heijden explores the rich musical heritage of Bohemia. |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] 'This is the outstanding Lise Davidsen recording many of us who've experienced the phenomenon live have been waiting for...The partnership with Leif Ove Andsnes doubles the pleasure.' BBC Music - Choral & Song Choice Feb 2022 |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
Underwater [ Decca Universal / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "Sure, it's unintrusive and its seeming meanderings might appear simplistic. But for me that's the beauty of it…It all feels as if you're party to an intimate exchange - the composer in private communion with the piano." BBC Music |