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DMYTRO BORTNIANSKY
Bortniansky: Creonte National Choir of Ukraine 'Dumka', National Presidential Orchestra, Herman Makarenko (conductor) [ Toccata Classics / 2 CD - due 7/Aug/2026 ] In 1776, during a spell in Italy early in his career, the Ukrainian composer Dmytro Bortniansky (1751-1825) wrote Creonte, an opera seria based on Sophocles' tragedy Antigone and poised, like early Mozart, on the cusp between Baroque and Classical... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Joana Mallwitz (conductor) [ Naxos / Blu-ray - due 11/Sep/2026 ] With its wonderfully poetic and sensual score, Rusalka is Antonín Dvořák's most beloved opera, filled with musical effects that evoke the beauty and magic of a world inhabited by nymphs and water sprites. Jaroslav Kvapil's libretto is based on a... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Joana Mallwitz (conductor) [ Naxos / DVD - due 11/Sep/2026 ] With its wonderfully poetic and sensual score, Rusalka is Antonín Dvořák's most beloved opera, filled with musical effects that evoke the beauty and magic of a world inhabited by nymphs and water sprites. Jaroslav Kvapil's libretto is based on a... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Neeme Jarvi conducts Shostakovich Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 8 CD Box Set - due 25/Sep/2026 ] Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi was born in 1937 in Tallin, where he studied music before moving to Leningrad to study at the conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky. He returned to Tallinn and held posts with the Estonian Radio and Television Symphony... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY / MAURICE RAVEL / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Tableaux Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Joseph Swensen [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 4/Sep/2026 ] This album centres on Ravel: Ravel the composer with Ma Mère l'Oye - originally a suite for piano four hands composed in 1910, orchestrated the following year to become a ballet… and Ravel the arranger with Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an... |
ERNEST GUIRAUD / AUGUSTA HOLMÈS / FLORENT SCHMITT / MARIE JAËLL / CHARLES GOUNOD / GASTON CARRAUD / GUY ROPARTZ / CHARLES SILVER
Phantoms. French Symphonic Poems Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Pierre Dumoussaud [ Alpha Classics / CD - due 30/Oct/2026 ] "A genre of high fantasy, complete with its host of ghosts, demons, spirits and witches, usurped the place of the magical elements of Baroque opera in France during the 19th century," writes Alexandre Dratwicki in the introduction to this programme,... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 'The Egyptian' Simon Trpčeski, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård [ Linn Records / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski continues his critically acclaimed piano concertos series on Linn Records with a 'spectacular' (Bachtrack) live recording of Saint-Saëns' Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5, both performed at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall... |
FROLYAK / HAVRYLETS / KRYVOPUST / POLEVA / PRYDATKEVYCH / SHEVCHENKO / ZALESKY
Music Of Resilience Solomiya Ivakhiv (violin), INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra; Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Roma [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Hailed by Fanfare magazine as 'one of the major artists of our time' Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv continues to give voice to her country's rich musical heritage in Music of Resilience. The album explores her homeland's ongoing war and... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
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ROBERTO GERHARD / WILLIAM WALTON / IGOR STRAVINSKY
Gerhard: The Plague / Walton: Facade / Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat [The Soldier's Tale] Alec McCowen, Glenda Jackson, Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Scofield (narrators) / National Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, etc [ Australian Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A trio of twentieth-century classics, sardonic and timely tales, in long-unavailable Decca/Argo recordings from the 1970s. |
