Classical Upcoming Releases
Classical Upcoming Releases
The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - due 18/Jan/2019 ] "Capuçon's impetuosity and thoughtfulness are complemented by Haitink's lifelong engagement with this music...Each of the [chamber] works is played with collective grace and elan by these crème de la crème chamber musicians." Sunday Times |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI & OTHERS
Scarlatti: Sonatas / Variaciones del fandango español Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Scarlatti published just 30 of his 550 or so keyboard sonatas. They appeared in London in 1738/9 under the title Essercizi per gravicembalo ('Keyboard exercises'). In the preface he warned players: "Do not expect, whether you be amateur or... |
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH
Bach, W.F.: 6 Duets for 2 Flutes Patrick Gallois, Kazunori Seo (flutes) [ Naxos / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Sebastian's eldest son, enjoyed a reputation as one of Germany's finest organists, but his career was one of mixed fortunes and he died in poverty. The dating of his Six Duets is the subject of speculation, but their... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, troisième année & other late piano works Cédric Tiberghien (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Unsettling meditations on the passing of life, Wagner and western tonality, the music of Liszt's old age is like nothing else of its time. Cédric Tiberghien proves wholly attuned to its unconventional demands in a programme concluding with the third... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Anne-Catherine Bucher (cembalo) [ Naxos / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] This recording rounds off two years dedicated to Bach's 30 variations, interspersed with pleasant encounters with the public, in particular during the Cafés Baroques concert series at the Arsenal in Metz. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Amarae morti: Lamentations and motets by Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot & Victoria El León de Oro, Peter Phillips (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] What connects a seemingly disparate selection of names from across Renaissance Europe is the spiritual progression from darkness ('in the midst of life we are in death') to light ('blessed be the name of the Lord'). And, of course, the... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Motets (Bwv 225-231) and Cantatas (Bwv 50 & 118) English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Elliot Gardiner [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Songplay Joyce Didonato (mezzo) with Craig Terry (keyboard), Chuck Israels (dble-bass), Jimmy Madison (drums), Lautaro Greco (bandoneon), Charlie Porter (trump [ Erato Classics / Warner Classics / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Joyce DiDonato greets you with a song in her heart and twinkle in her eye. The American mezzo-soprano's album Songplay unites world-class musicians from the varied worlds of opera, jazz and tango in the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation... |
SIR HUBERT PARRY
Parry: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 3 Leonore Piano Trio [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Music spanning the decade which saw Parry established as a national celebrity. If the accident prone first performance of the E minor trio in 1878 left its composer disheartened, he would surely have rejoiced to hear such alert, attentive... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / GLAZUNOV
Russian Cello Concertos Li-wei Qin (cello) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Pardubice, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Russian composers have made a significant contribution to the repertoire of music for cello and orchestra. Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, deftly scored for an 18th-century orchestra, reveals his admiration for Mozart whereas the Pezzo... |
WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN DOWLAND / HENRY PURCELL / etc
Elizabethan Lute Songs / Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary Norma Burrowes (Soprano), James Bowman & Charles Brett (Countertenors) / Robert Lloyd (Bass) / Early Consort of Music / David Munrow [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] "The solo singing, however, is strong, and the music represents Purcell at his finest - the counter tenor duet "Sound the trumpet" (Bowman and Charles Brett) never palls." (Irish Times) |
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ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: Dorothy [Operetta] Majella Cullagh, Lucy Vallis, Stephanie Maitland, Matt Mears, John Ieuan Jones / Victorian Opera, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Alfred Cellier was a contemporary of Arthur Sullivan as a Chapel Royal chorister, and would later conduct several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. With its rural tale of disguise and romantic scheming, its jaunty tunes, lively characters and... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas (with works by Prokofiev) Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Belying its young composer's reputation as the enfant terrible of early Soviet music, 'the most popular cello sonata of the twentieth century'-Steven Isserlis's verdict on the Shostakovich-takes its place alongside two other Russian masterpieces,... |
THOMAS HARDY
Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree (Unabridged) Jamie Parker (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 5 CD Box Set - due 1/Feb/2019 ] Under the Greenwood Tree is an affectionate and youthful portrait of a world Hardy knew well-village life in 'Wessex'-in which a romantic tale is set against changing circumstances. The traditional feature of local music-making performed by the... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.3 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - due 8/Feb/2019 ] A masterpiece first played by the Gürzenich Orchestra. The premiere of Mahler's Third Symphony took place in June 1902 in Krefeld (not far from Düsseldorf), but it was indeed the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne which gave that first performance...... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / FRIEDRICH GULDA
Offenbach / Gulda: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau (cello) / Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin [ Erato Classics / CD - due 15/Feb/2019 ] Edgar Moreau performs two cello concertos which bravely and wittily challenge convention. Offenbach's ambitious Grand Concerto in G major culminates in military fireworks, while Friedrich Gulda's Concerto for Cello, Wind Orchestra and Band - written... |
ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations / In the South (Alassio) / Serenade For Strings Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Onyx / CD - due 29/Mar/2019 ] The third Elgar album from Petrenko and the RLPO , a critically acclaimed team of Elgarians, brings together three masterpieces, In the South, a vibrant and colourful depiction of the Southern Italian coast, the Serenade for String Orchestra, and the... |
