ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
Cecilia Bartoli: Farinelli Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Renowned for portraying the music of the baroque like no one else, Cecilia Bartoli presents her new recording of arias famously performed by legendary castrato, Farinelli. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Masterpieces Collection - Australian Classics Various orchestras & performers from the vast ABC catalogue [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2019 ] ABC Classics and the Art Gallery of New South Wales present a new collection of albums bringing together culture from through the ages. From nineteenth-century visions of grandeur in Epic Classics to the sacred tradition in Divine Classics. |
Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
Back Together [ Decca / CD - released 1/Dec/2019 ] The Greatest Showmen present their third album, Back Together! |
JOHANN STRAUSS II
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (Complete operetta) [2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio] Julia Varady, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey / Bavarian State Opera Orchestra / Carlos Kleiber [ Deutsche Grammophon 2 CDs + Blu-ray audio / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2019 ] "Twenty-five years after its original release there's still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor's interpretation " Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32 Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2019 ] Winner - Instrumental Gramophone Awards 1977 |
FREDERICK SEPTIMUS KELLY
Kelly - Orchestral Works Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey & Johannes Fritzch [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2019 ] Frederick Septimus Kelly was one of Australia's great cultural losses of World War One: a composer the equal of Vaughan Williams, who survived Gallipoli but was cut down in the final days of the Battle of the Somme. His music - crafted entirely in... |
Music by John Lunn
Downton Abbey - The OST [ Decca / CD - released 25/Nov/2019 ] This high profile movie, continuing the story of Lord Grantham and the Crawley family is in cinemas around the world from September. The film picks up where the last TV series ended |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Angela Gheorghiu - Plaisir d'amour Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Alexandra Dariescu (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 15/Nov/2019 ] Angela Gheorghiu returns to Decca to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her legendary La Traviata with Sir Georg Solti A 23-track album featuring rare and classic songs never before recorded by Gheorghiu Winner of five Gramophone Awards, twice... |
Andrea Bocelli
Sì Forever [ Decca / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Golden Globe-winning operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli is back with an extended special edition of his best-selling album Si. Featuring two new duets with Ellie Goulding and Jennifer Garner who add to the star-studded line-up on the original album: Ed... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (plus works by Wagner & Richard Strauss) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Mahler), London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Erich Leinsdorf [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "the sound quality and recorded ambience are both remarkable and contribute to the full in making this Mahler issue a candidate for top recommendation, in a symphony which has fared remarkably well in its recorded history." MusicWeb |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Choral Works [Incls 'Cantata Academica'] George Malcolm (organ), Benjamin Britten [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] The first recordings of choral masterpieces by Britten, performed by the dedicatees and newly reissued in a unique compilation. |
DUPRÉ / SAINT-SAËNS / CHARPENTIER / VIERNE
French Virtuoso Organ Music Gillian Weir, at the Hradetzky organ in The Royal Northern College of Music [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "it is great to have this exciting, technically demanding and imaginative recording in my library once again." MusicWeb |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Cello Suites Jean-Max Clément (cello) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Newly remastered from the original L'Oiseau Lyre tapes, a little-known Bach recording in the true French style. The modern phenomenon of the Cello Suites as a staple of any record collection may be laid at the feet of the Catalan cellist Pablo... |
John Coltrane
Blue World [ Verve / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Three weeks after recording his eighth Impulse! album, Crescent - and six months before he would commit to tape his universally-acknowledged magnum opus, A Love Supreme - John Coltrane arrived at 445 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 9 Symphonies & Overtures (1977 recordings) Blu-ray audio in Dolby Atmos Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray audio in Dolby Atmos / 2 Blu-Ray Audio - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Beethoven is in no way déjà vu to Karajan, as this set gloriously proves" - Richard Osborne (Gramophone) |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Galina Vishnevskaya sings Russian Songs Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano) & Mstislav Rostropovich (piano) [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Intensity is the keynote of these performances. Mme. Vishnevskaya has a rich dramatic voice of characteristically Slavonic timbre, highly charged emotionally..she is invaluably aided by accompaniments of infinite sensibility by her husband" Gramopho |
CHRISTMAS
Feliz Navidad Rolando Villazon (tenor) with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Allan Wilson [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Star tenor follows critically acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito with his first Christmas album for the Yellow Label Feliz Navidad extends great tradition of seasonal albums by Fritz Wunderlich, Luciano Pavarotti,... |
BACH FAMILY / WASSENAER / COUPERIN / VIVALDI / etc
Karl Munchinger - The Baroque Legacy Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Members of L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Karl Munchinger, with Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] A newly remastered treasury of Baroque ensemble music from Gabrieli to Haydn, including several recordings receiving their first international CD release. The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra was founded by Karl Münchinger in 1946, and it was only... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Prometheus; Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Mazeppa; Hamlet. (with Wagner: Siegfried Idyll) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Members of L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Karl Munchinger [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] A quartet of Liszt tone-poem recordings, new to CD, plus a cherishable recording of Wagner's musical birthday card to his wife. Karl Münchinger founded the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1946, and Decca began making records with them three years... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Works & Reworks Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] A deluxe version of Ólafsson's two Bach albums. Johann Sebastian Bach has won five-star reviews worldwide, as has Bach Reworks, the pianist's performances of Bach transcriptions and works reimagined by today's composers - Ryuichi Sakamoto,... |