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WOLF / BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / PARRY / BERNSTEIN / MENDELSSOHN / MARX / FRANCK / STROHL / etc
'but I like to sing...' Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] "It's a portrait of an artist who has shown us many faces on those 100 discs but whose voice remains a constant: sweet, flexible, alive to the text. And always intelligent" Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Song |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Má Vlast Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov [ Pentatone / CD - released 1/Mar/2024 ] "I think it's Bychkov's ability to relate phrasing to sound that is at the heart of his success here. He plainly relishes the orchestra's natural blend while celebrating the beauty of its soloists." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Orchestral |
EUGENE YSAYE
Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for solo violin Op. 27 Hilary Hahn (violin) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] "...her imagination and her ability to present the music as freshminted inclines me towards her recording as the finest currently available.' - Gramophone Award WINNER 2024 - RECORDING OF THE YEAR |
MEHUL / ROSSINI / BEETHOVEN / WEBER / MEYERBEER / WAGNER / etc
Michael Spyres - In the Shadows Michael Spyres (tenor) / Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Warner / Erato / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] "this is another fine, fascinating album from an unusually interesting and intelligent artist, handsomely recorded." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Voice & Ensemble |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Bacewicz: Concertos for 1 & 2 Pianos / Overture / Music for Strings, Trumpets & Percussion Peter Jablonski and Elisabeth Brauß (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon [ Ondine / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] "Bacewicz's music certainly thrives on its high metabolic rate, its impatience, even, for which this brilliantly executed new album makes no apology." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Concerto |
LEOS JANACEK / KAROL SZYMANOWSKI / BELA BARTOK
Piotr Anderszewski - Bartok, Janecek & Szymanowski Piotr Anderszewski (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Jan/2023 ] "The level of detail is apt to leave you speechless. For most pianists, attaining that kind of exactitude requires a Faustian bargain in which the soul of the music (if not of the performer) is sacrificed. Not so here." Gramophone Award Nomination 24 |
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 Awards Finalist |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M57 Sinfonia of London Chorus & Orchestra, John Wilson [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Nov/2023 ] "...this is the finest recorded Daphnis for a generation." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Orchestral |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN / WIDMANN / HOLLIGER / COLL / RIHM
Sol Gabetta - Mendelssohn Sol Gabetta (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Sony Classics / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "We're privileged with a fine tribute not only to Mendelssohn and those inspired by his example, but to two exceptional players on top form." Gramophone Award Finalist 2024 - Chamber |
DUBOIS / HAHN / FAURÉ / GOUNOD / CHAUSSON / SAINT-SAËNS
Paysage Véronique Gens (soprano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] "Her soprano is in remarkably good shape, supple and elegant, her diction exemplary and her phrasing exquisite, deftly capturing the mood of each song." Gramophone Award Finalist - Voice & Ensemble |
