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Domingo Hindoyan, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Verismo - Preludi e Intermezzi [ Onyx / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] An album of dramatic and passionate Preludes and Intermezzos from some of the most popular Italian operas, from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Translations of works by early French and Russian realists, Stendahl,... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Concertinos / Rhapsody / Symphony No. 7 Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Daniel Crossmann (conductor) [ Onyx / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "Grossmann and his players get unerringly to the emotional heart of the matter...In short, this is a fabulous disc, which immediately joins my shortlist of most urgently recommendable Weinberg recordings." Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2023 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: 33 Variations in C Major on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op.120 Shai Wosner (piano) [ Onyx / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] In 1819 the publisher and composer Anton Diabelli invited 50 Austrian composers to write one variation a short waltz he had composed. He specified that it take up just one sheet (which he supplied) and this already contained his waltz. Composers such... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Job / Old King Cole / The Running Set Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ ONYX / CD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] "Scrupulously prepared and boasting some superbly coordinated, infectiously dedicated playing from the RLPO, it's a thoroughly absorbing interpretation [of *Job*]...Overall, this is unquestionably a very fine achievement." Gramophone Editor's Choice |
ROBERTO SIERRA
Sierra: Symphony No.6, Sinfonietta for strings Domingo Hindoyan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] 'The works included on this album span 25 years of creative activity. While current projects are always my focus, looking back is not something I often do; however, this recording confronted me with compositions representing a good part of my... |
Ehnes Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135 [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] The final volume in the critically acclaimed set of recordings by the Ehnes Quartet of the late quartets of Beethoven. Gramophone magazine said of the Op.130 & 133 album ONYX4199; 'It's many a year since I've heard string quartet playing that's more... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin James Ehnes (violin) [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "..overall these excellently-recorded performances are among the finest available." BBC Music Instrumental Choice Feb 2022 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms Analogue: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Four Serious Songs Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano) [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 6/Jan/2022 ] When the red light in Studio 2 at the famous Abbey Road Studios came on at the start of the recording sessions for Elschenbroich's and Grynyuk's latest ONYX recording, the control room had a very different atmosphere. The recording was made using... |
Joseph Moog (piano)
Brahms & Schumann [ ONYX / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Paganini's Caprices have exerted a mesmeric attraction for composers since their publication in 1820 (they were composed between 1802 - 1817). Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Rachmaninov to name a few. Schumann's two sets of Etudes were the result of hearing... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY / FRANZ SCHREKER
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau / Schreker: Der Geburtstag der Infantin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, European Opera Centre, Vasily Petrenko (conductor) [ Onyx / CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] "Petrenko's interpretation [of the Schreker] is a pleasure from first to last. The excellent playing of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic brings each of the episodes vividly to life" Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2021 |
STRAUSS / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS MENDELSSOHN etc
Festmusik: A Legacy Onyx Brass, John Wilson (conductor) [ Chandos / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] Described as 'easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain' by BBC Music Magazine, Onyx Brass continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, presenting it in the entertaining and... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartet No.13 in B flat, Op.130 Grosse Fuge op.133 Ehnes Quartet [ Onyx / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Like many musical projects planned for 2020, the plans of the Ehnes Quartet to record Beethoven's late quartets underwent a drastic revision. Rather than cancel the project, some ingenious technology was employed. James Ehnes takes up the story 'Our... |
EUGENE YSAŸE
Ysaye: Sonatas For Solo Violin, Op.27 James Ehnes (violin) [ Onyx / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] 'Ehnes's 'centrist' approach keeps your attention focused on the music, leaving you to marvel at his technique only after you've stopped listening.' Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Instrumental |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 4, 5 & 7 Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (piano) [ Onyx Classcis / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] Viktoria Mullova's first album of Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Nos 3 & 9'Kreutzer' with Kristian Bezuidenhout, was reviewed enthusiastically by Gramophone magazine. ' The sound, in these familiar pieces has a startling clarity'; it went on to say that... |
BARTOK
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Bartok composed the Miraculous Mandarin (published as 'A Pantomime in One Act') at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The unpleasant Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra nationalist regime which persecuted... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas 7 &10 James Ehnes (violin), Andrew Armstrong (piano) [ Onyx Classics / CD - released 11/Dec/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Chamber |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Quartets, Rondo Concertante Dejan Lazic (piano), Benjamin Schmid (violin), Zen Hu (violin), Johannes Erkes (viola), Enrico Bronzi (Cello) [ ONYX / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] "Lazic likes to inflect this or that gorgeous phrase a little within the context of the main tempo of the moment, but he does it with an instinctive musicianship that disarms resistance." BBC Music |
STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version) | Rossini / Respighi: La Boutique fantasque (compiled by Malcolm Sargent) Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra [ Onyx / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Vasily Petrenko's previous Stravinsky recordings have been universally praised by the critics for the fine interpretations of these great scores, the superb playing of the RLPO and for the outstanding recorded sound. The same technical team was on... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 & Four Pieces for Piano Op. 119 Joseph Moog (piano), German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Milton (conductor) [ Onyx / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] "Moog's first entry [is] clear and unfussy, with enough subtle rubato to give the music shape and direction. The pacing is always effective." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music We Love Viktoria Mullova (violin), Misha Mullov-Abbado (bass) [ Onyx / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Violinist Viktoria Mullova and son, the bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado in music they love - a very personal and affectionate collection of music ranging from traditional Brazilian folk songs to JS Bach, via Antonio Carlos Jobim and Schumann. |
