The following classical CD titles are due for release / re-release in the near future.
SAMUEL BARBER / EUGENE YSAYE / ELLIOTT CARTER / JACQUES BREL / BAEK GO SAN/
Voyage Christine J. Lee; Henry Kramer [ Fuga Libera / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] "rowing up in two very different and, at times, conflicting cultures, music has always been the bridge that connects the different phases and places of my life. In this debut album, I wanted to capture my journey as a person and a musician.... |
STANISLAW MONIUSZKO
Moniuszko: Halka [Complete Opera] Dominik Sutowicz, Magdalena Molendowska, Lukasz Goli?ski, Pozna? State Moniuszko Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Polish composer, conductor and teacher Stanisław Moniuszko is widely known as 'the father of Polish national opera'. Halka tells the tragic story of its title character, a peasant girl whose love for the noble Janusz is betrayed when he abandons her. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / CARL REINECKE
Beethoven (arr. Reinecke): Triple Concerto / Reinecke: Piano Trio No. 1 Duccio Ceccanti (violin) Vittorio Ceccanti (cello) Matteo Fossi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Prolific in every aspect of music throughout his long and distinguished career, Carl Reinecke represented the complete musician with the belief that 'art should bring happiness to mankind'. |
CALDARA / SCARLATTI / VALENTINI
Appena chiudo gli occhi: Cantatas for solo voice with violin Giuseppina Bridelli; Quartetto Vanvitelli [ Arcana / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] After the success of Duel (Opera Choice in BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the Month in Opera magazine, etc.), Giuseppina Bridelli presents a new solo project alongside the Quartetto Vanvitelli (recently awarded '5 Diapasons' in the magazine Diapason for... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs For Lena / Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn Julianne Baird (soprano) Ryan De Ryke (baritone) Eva Mengelkoch (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy was the grandson of Felix Mendelssohn. He was also a polymathic intellectual - a prestigious jurist, political scientist, and one of Germany's observers to the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919. |
MONTEVERDI / SCARLATTI / HANDEL / MONARI
Tiranno Kate Lindsey; Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Corruption? Betrayal? Persecution? Tyranny? These subjects resonate with the current events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They also provide the subject matter of many seventeenth-century musical works. Kate Lindsey has chosen to devote... |
CARLOS PATINO
Patiño: Música sacra para la corte La Grande Chapelle; Albert Recasens [ Lauda / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] For over thirty years Carlos Patiño served Philip IV as Choirmaster in the Spanish Royal Chapel. The Spanish monarch was not the only one who held him in great esteem, for João IV of Portugal admired him as well and put together a collection of his... |
JOHANNES MARTINI
Martini: La fleur de biaulté Le miroir de musique; Baptiste Romain [ Ricercar / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Born in Leuze (Hainaut) around 1430, Johannes Martini was initially active in Konstanz, then in Milan and Ferrara, where he died on 23 October 1497. Closely connected with the d'Este family, he was paid in 1479 for the production of a large volume of... |
GALUPPI / CONTI / MONZA / BERETTI
Per il Salterio Margit Übellacker; Jürgen Banholzer; La Gioia Armonica [ Ramée / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] Today there are different types of the instrument known in German-speaking countries as the Hackbrett, mainly associated with local traditional music, such as the cimbalom in Eastern Europe, the santūr in Persia, etc. The history of European music... |
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Weber Martin Helmchen; Anna Prohaska; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; Christoph Eschenbach [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] "00 years ago, on May 26th 1821, today's Berlin Concert Hall was inaugurated as "Königliches Schauspielhaus". Destroyed as "Preußisches Staatstheater" during World War II, the building, located in eastern Berlin, was rebuilt during GDR times and... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Burleske, Serenade & Tod und Verklärung Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Mikko Franck; Nelson Goerner [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck continue their collaboration with Alpha and here invite one of the label's flagship pianists, Nelson Goerner. The programme is devoted to Richard Strauss, coupling several of the German... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos & Piano Trio No. 2 Simon Trpčeski; Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava; Cristian Măcelaru [ Linn Records / CD - due 28/May/2021 ] In the second of his recordings for Linn, charismatic pianist Simon Trpčeski performs Shostakovich's two Piano Concertos with the outstanding Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava under Orchestre National de France's new Musical Director Cristian Măcelaru.... |