BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (LP) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
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... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (LP) Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm, Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Etudes For Piano Book 2 (Nos. 11-20) / Metamorphosis (LP) Bojan Bojan Gorišek (piano) [ Vinyl Passion / 2 LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Impressions: The Sound of Debussy (LP) Michel Béroff, Samson François, Yuri Egorov (pianos) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini / Orchestre de chambre Jean-François Paillard, etc [ Warner Classics / LP - released 5/Mar/2018 ] "Music would take over at the point at which words become powerless, with the one and only object of expressing that which nothing but music could express… I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that... |
Philip Glass
Glassworks (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/May/2014 ] Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter. Six warm pieces in a successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented work. Glassworks is another Music On Vinyl Classical release by this fantastic composer. |
The String Theory
The Los Angeles Suite (LP) [ ADA / Warner / LP - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Grammy-nominated neoclassical pop orchestra from Berlin/Gothenburg releases new album on newly founded label Project C/Clouds Hill. Maverick orchestra The String Theory may be known primarily for their long-term collaboration with the gentle... |
Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble
Sing Me Home (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 29/Jul/2016 ] The new album from Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble will surprise and delight with imaginative sounds that transform the traditional musical landscape. SING ME HOME is the sixth album by the Grammy®-nominated Silk Road Ensemble and its founding... |
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... |
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... |
DAVID LANG
Lang: Mystery Sonatas Augustin Hadelich (violin) [ Cantaloupe / LP - released 2/Nov/2018 ] Back in April 2014 at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, Augustin Hadelich's performance of David Lang's 'mystery sonatas' was praised by the New York Times as a riveting display of "magisterial poise and serene control." That same magic penetrates this starkly... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner [ Vinyl Passion Classical / LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Motetten BWV 225-230 (LP) Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Phi / 2 LP - released 24/Feb/2017 ] To launch Philippe Herreweghe's birthday year, we turn the spotlight once more on one of his most accomplished recordings: Bach's Motets BWV 225-230. Recorded in 2011 in the splendid acoustics of the Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin, this... |
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Faure: Requiem (1901 full orchestral version) (LP) Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 26/Apr/2019 ] Two versions of the same Requiem Thirteen years after his memorable recording of the first version of the Fauré Requiem - an intimate version first performed by the composer in 1892, at Saint-Gervais in Paris - Philippe Herreweghe here conducts the... |
IGOR STRAVINKSKY
Stravinsky: Petrushko, Octet for Wind Instruments (LP) Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (conductor) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (LP) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Vexations (LP) Alan Marks (piano) [ Les Disques Du Crépuscule / LP - released 20/Dec/2019 ] The extraordinary score for Vexations is just three lines long, yet a complete performance (840 repetitions) may last for anything between 14 and 28 hours. First performed under the supervision of John Cage in 1963, this radical, enigmatic,... |
ANDREA & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 (LP) Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 LP - released 2/Sep/2013 ] 180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve. The Gabrieli Consort and Players return to the programme that put them on the musical map when it was originally recorded and released in 1990: 'A Venetian Coronation 1595' is a musical re-creation evoking the grand... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto (LP) Geza Anda (piano) Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin) Pierre Fournier (cello) / Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay [ Deutsche Grammophon Classical / LP - released 22/May/2019 ] The legendary 1960 recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto by Géza Anda, Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Pierre Fournier, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay, is finally back on vinyl. |