LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' (LP) Aase Nordmo Løvberg (sop), Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Klempe [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 2 LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] The German-born conductor Otto Klemperer, a towering figure in the musical history of the 20th century, died at the age of 88 on July 8th 1973, so 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of his death. |
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... |
ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Calm Classical [LP] Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / New College Oxford Choir / Alison Balsom (trumpet) / Jacqueline du Pre (cello) / Tasmin Little (violin) & more [ Warner Classics LP / 2 LP - released 13/Oct/2023 ] musicCALM means "calm," "serene," or "tranquil. Take your time and enjoy 25 relaxing neo-classical, film, and classical pieces selected from the catalogs of Warner Classics and Erato. From gentle solo piano to uplifting symphonic daydreams and serene... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (LP) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / CARL MARIA von WEBER
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Weber: Konzertstück in F minor (LP) Alfred Brendel (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Philips / LP - released 6/May/2016 ] Presented with original artwork and pressed at optimal GmbH, this release has been carefully mastered from original analogue sources at Abbey Road Studios. Every effort has been made to faithfully reproduce the original intentions of the musicians an |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (LP) Alice Coote, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 18/Sep/2020 ] In 2009 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel, and the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge performed Handel's best known work, Messiah, on Palm Sunday,... |
AARON COPLAND / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / GEORGE GERSHWIN / CHARLES IVES / etc
Alison Balsom - Quiet City (LP) Alison Balsom (trumpet) / Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman [ Warner Classics / LP - released 26/Aug/2022 ] "As an entity it creates a varied album in every kind of mood. It will delight anyone, not only the trumpet expert, who admires Balsom's eclecticism and musical brilliance...Balsom's virtuosity is spellbinding throughout." Guardian |
Andrea Bocelli, with Matteo Bocelli, Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban, Dua Lipa, Aida Carifullina & Ensemble
Sì (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Presenting Sì: Andrea Bocelli's first album of new material in 14 years. It's a set of powerful, emotional songs, some featuring interpolations of classical themes (from, for example, Bach and Massenet), and an all encompassing positive message of... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Intimate Chopin (LP) Andrei Gavrilov, Alexandre Tharaud, Samson Francois, Nicholas Angelich, Nikolai Lugansky, Ingrid Fliter [ Warner Classics / LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Not very forthcoming as a person, Chopin invents a new type of touch, able to render the immaterial, to encompass absolute limpidity, and the full gamut of modern pianism...the versions collected here are all performed by Warner's greatest artists. |
Anja Lechner and François Couturier
Lontano (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] After their highly acclaimed 2014 debut album as a duo, Moderato cantabile, Anja Lechner and François Couturier widen the scope of music even further. The duo sings in a voice of its own, be it with original compositions, free improvisations, drawing... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Etudes (LP) Anne Queffelec (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Anne Queffélec is consistently notable for her insight and eloquence. Gramophone magazine has described her recordings thus: 'Delicious playing …', 'Outstanding … thoughtful, poetic …', 'Articulate, clear-textured and vivacious … |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "...no one can deny the sheer beauty that this pair lovingly conjures." ClassicalNet |
EDOUARD LALO / PABLO SARASATE
Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Sarrasate: Zigeunerweisen (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa [ Warner Classics LP / LP - due 10/May/2024 ] "...pure intonation, the sweet tone and the warmly emotional and committed treatment that this much admired young artist gives the work." Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102 (with Clara Schumann: Piano Trio) (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Pablo Fernandez (cello), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Lambert Orkis (piano) [ Sony Classical Vinyl / 2 LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] An aristocrat of the string world is united with one of its most exciting newcomers for this major new concerto release on Sony Classical. First joint album by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández - a musical team for many years. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Stabat Mater (LP) Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ PHI / 2 LP - released 9/Mar/2018 ] For its second vinyl release, PHI has chosen to reissue one of Philippe Herreweghe's most masterly interpretations: Antonín DvoĆák's ineffable Stabat Mater, for which the conductor and his ensembles, the Collegium Vocale Gent and the Royal Flemish... |
Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman (organ)
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert (LP) [ Alba / LP - released 14/May/2020 ] Duke Ellington wrote the Sacred Concert in the mid-1960's and performed the work with his orchestra and various soloists between 1966 and 1974 at Churches around the USA and Europe. Ellington never wrote a score of Sacred Concerts, and it wasn't... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor' (LP) Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) / Wiener Symphoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto, recorded with Wiener Philharmoniker and Carlo Maria Giulini in 1982. |
CAROLINE SHAW
Caroline Shaw: Orange (LP) Attacca Quartet [ Nonesuch / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2020 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, is out now on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. Orange, which features six of Shaw's pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively... |