Since you are interested in Bach Trios, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Alexander Vedernikov, with Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) [ Erato / CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "After the famous introductory bars - following the score rather than the composer's recording - the sweeping first subject enters faster, thankfully, than Richter's celebrated account but with the same majestic assurance" Gramophone Award Nomination |
BRAHMS / DVORAK / HAHN / STRAUSS / etc
Morgen: Songs For Cello & Piano Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (piano) [ Atoll Records / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] The return of one of New Zealand's favourite pianists. This is a special album for Rae de Lisle, who has created it with her son-in law Andrew (NZSO's Principal Cello) and daughter Julia (Principal Viola with the NZSO). |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures / Overture: Cockaigne Jacqueline Du Pre (cello) Dame Janet Baker (mezzo) / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 22/Aug/2015 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Orchestral songs (Including 'Four Last Songs') Jessye Norman (soprano) / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur [ Philips Originals / CD - released 1/Jul/2007 ] "The vocal command is irresistible. Norman brings heart-felt, deeply committed performances, at times larger than life, which satisfyingly expoits the unique glory of her voice. Excellent recording." Penguin Stereo Guide Rosette Recording |
Joan Baez
Whistle Down The Wind [ Proper / CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Whistle Down The Wind is Joan's first new studio album in a decade, since 2008's critically acclaimed, Grammy -nominated Day After Tomorrow, which was produced by Steve Earle. Its release ignited an extraordinary decade of achievement by Joan,... |
THE CELTIC VIOL
The Celtic Viol Vol 2 Jordi Savall (treble viols) / Andrew Lawrence King (Irish harp and psalterium) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "I do hope that classical aficionados not normally interested in early or Irish music will acquire this, for it might be the beginning of a marvelous discovery." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
Leonard Cohen
You Want It Darker [ Sony Music / CD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Leonard Cohen, acclaimed composer of 'Hallelujah', has released an album of haunting new songs at the age of 82. This great artist continues to astonish us. Uncompromising and urgent, "You Want It Darker" is the latest chapter in Leonard's... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Following the monumental set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, Michael Houstoun and Rattle proudly release a superb account of the Diabelli Variations, thirty-three variations on a waltz by Anton Duabelli composed by Ludwig van Beethoven... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Intermezzi Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The Brahms Intermezzi are among the finest works ever written for solo piano, and it is our very great pleasure to release this wonderful album to mark the occasion of Michael's 70th birthday. |
SATIE / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / FAURE / POULENC
Michael Houstoun - Trois Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Michael Houstoun's second release on Rattle in 2017, following the exceptional tour de force of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, is a selection of personal favourites from the repertoire of French piano music. Trois is an album of absolutely... |
RODRIGO / FALLA / SOR / LENNON & McCARTNEY
Milos Karadaglic: Aranjuez Milos Karadaglic (guitar) with London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin [ Mercury Classics / Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 21/Feb/2014 ] "The young guitarist comes across as an interpreter of delicacy and meticulousness." Financial Times, 14th February 2014 |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Piano Trio & other chamber music The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] With a programme of chamber works drawn from both ends of Bruch's long composing career, members of The Nash Ensemble once more reveal a neglected side of the composer's output. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN / GUSTAV MAHLER
Renée Fleming - Lieder (Brahms, Schumann, Mahler) Renée Fleming (soprano) Hartmut Höll (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Four-time Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album for almost two decades. |
MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL DE FALLA / ERIK SATIE / FRANCIS POULENC
Camino Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] "Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate" BBC Music Recording of the Month Oct 2021 |
Sol3 Mio
On Another Note [ Universal Music / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] United by a love of opera and deep family bonds, tenor brothers Pene and Amitai Pati, and their baritone cousin Moses Mackay have carved out a unique niche for themselves. While continuing to study, train and make huge achievements within the... |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Gymnopedies and other piano works Aldo Ciccolini (piano) [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / EMI / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] "No more committed or convincing champion of this music could be found than Ciccolini, who equally well conveys, for example, the tenderness of the fifth Gnossienne, the pre-Poulenc pert humour and charm of the Morceaux en forme de poire and the... |
Aldous Harding
Party [ Flying Nun / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Igniting interest with her eponymous debut album released just two years ago, Aldous Harding quickly became a name murmured on many lips. She's known for her sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes delivered with a charismatic combination... |
HANDEL / BACH / TORELLI / HUMMEL / MARCELLO / etc
Magic Trumpet Alison Balsom (trumpet), with Alina Ibragimova (violin) / The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director, harpsichord and organ) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] "I realised from early on that it wasn't just a trumpet, it was a voice that could seemingly do anything … It can have such fabulous colours, be so versatile, and make such a beautiful sound. I will vigorously defend it for the rest of my life."... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach - Goldberg Variations (2015 Recording) Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] "A salutary reminder that recordings which one thought couldn't be bettered, actually can - remarkable" International Piano Five Stars |
Anika Moa
Songs For Bubbas 3 [ Anika Moa / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Anika Moa returns with the third instalment of her hugely successful Songs For Bubbas series. Packed full of musical treats for your tamariki, the album features Julia Deans, Anna Coddington and Steph Brown. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Beatrice Rana (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Her detailing is one of the aspects that makes this performance so compelling, be it the bringing out of a new line in the repeat, subtle changes in phrasing, a touch of pedal - examples are to be found in every single variation." Gramophone |
Bob Dylan
Rough And Rowdy Ways [ Columbia / 2 CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] Rough And Rowdy Ways, the first album of original songs from Bob Dylan in eight years. The album follows the recent release of two other songs from the forthcoming Rough And Rowdy Ways: The album's lead-off track, "I Contain Multitudes," and the... |
Bruce Springsteen
Letter To You [ Columbia / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Letter To You is Bruce Springsteen's new studio album with the E Street Band, and is a rock album fueled by the band's heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound. Recorded at his home studio in New Jersey, Letter To You is Springsteen's 20th... |
SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
Weiss: Lute Works (arr. D. Cerović for guitar) Danijel Cerović (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] Silvius Leopold Weiss was acknowledged as the greatest lutenist of his age, composing over 600 pieces for the instrument organised into suites or sonatas. In these arrangements for guitar, Danijel Cerović has selected the only two of Weiss's sonatas... |
J. S. BACH / GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Bach / Telemann: Effervescence concertante Ensemble Amarillis [ Evidence / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] "The idea of this program is to feature concertos for several ensemble instruments in a variety of sound combinations. For example, Telemann's Concerto for flute and recorder is a response to Bach's Concerto for violin and oboe. Telemann chooses the... |
Fleet Foxes
Crack-Up [ Nonesuch / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Crack-Up comes six years after the 2011 release of Helplessness Blues and nearly a decade since the band's 2008 self-titled debut. All eleven of the songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold. The album was co-produced by Pecknold and Skyler... |
MOZART / CHOPIN
Grigory Sokolov: The Salzburg Recital Grigory Sokolov (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2015 ] "From the beginning of Mozart's F major sonata, K. 280, the first of two included, the Sokolov spell is cast...here is poetic and intimate playing of the highest order." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Instrumental) |
ALFONSO X / YEHUDA HALEVI / JUAN del ENZINA & others
Granada 1013-1526 Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2016 ] "In short, this is a breathtaking achievement. It's the kind of disc that often left me in quiet astonishment not just at its ambition, artistry or skill, but at the way it tries to further the human story and enrich the experience of us all. Bravo! |
ANTONIO VIVALDI / W. A. MOZART / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Vivaldi / Mozart / Handel: Dixit Dominus Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, la Capella Reial de Catalunya [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2016 ] Following the critically acclaimed Magnifcat & Concerti two years ago, here we experience the full maturity of Savall's ensembles. |
HANDEL / JOMMELLUI / LEO / MONTEVERDI / PURCELL
In War & Peace: Harmony Through Music Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "In War & Peace' finds DiDonato back on Baroque ground for the first time in a while, and it's a joyful musical homecoming. ..Drama, as ever with DiDonato, is everything. Ornamentation serves narrative first, ego second." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 |
FANNY & FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet / Piano Quartet / Piano Trio Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 29/Jul/2022 ] 'In sum, an exuberant, brilliantly executed celebration of the most prodigious brother-sister double act in music history.' Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 22 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 / Choral Fantasia Op 80 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano & director) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2014 ] "One of the pleasures of these splendid performances is the rapport between the soloist/conductor and his musicians. They play as one." (Sunday Times) |
Leonard Cohen
Thanks For The Dance [ Columbia / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] In a posthumous new album, Leonard Cohen has robbed death of the last word. 'Thanks for the Dance' is not a commemorative collection of B sides and outtakes, but an unexpected harvest of new songs, exciting and vital, a continuation of the... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Project Ólafur Arnalds (cello) Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Mercury Classics / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] Award-winning young Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds (celebrated composer of the score for TV series Broadchurch) has always loved the piano music of Frédéric Chopin, but had grown weary of the uniform and standardized perfection of recordings.... |
DONIZETTI / GOUNOD / VERDI / ROSSINI / MEYERBEER / MASSENET / GODARD
Pene Pati Pene Pati (tenor) / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Emmanuel Villaume [ Warner Classics / Warner / CD - released 25/Mar/2022 ] "A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati's debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire presented here" BBC Music Choice of the Month May |
Ry Cooder
The Prodigal Son [ A & M Records / Universal / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] Recorded in Hollywood, CA, and produced by Ry and his chief collaborator, drummer Joachim Cooder, The Prodigal Son is all America - our spiritual, hopeful voices, our raw cries and our sly provocations, voiced through the songs of the Pilgrim... |
J. S. BACH
Sean Shibe: Bach Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental |
Sol3 Mio
A Very M3rry Christmas [ Universal Music / CD - released 10/Nov/2017 ] Sol3 Mio's first ever Christmas album! A Very Merry Christmas features the breathtaking voices of Pene Pati, Amitai Pati and Moses Mackay, this much requested album will delight their legions of fans and is destined to become a bona fide Kiwi... |
JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] BBC Music Award WINNER - Premier Award 2021 Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2020 |
Tami Neilson
Sassafrass! [ Outside Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] With her new album, SASSAFRASS! Tami Neilson takes a giant step that should only bring her more widespread acclaim. On this 11-track effort, she places a heavier emphasis on soul music while not abandoning her country and rockabilly roots. Neilson... |