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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: 48 Piano Sonatas (8CD Box Set) Daniel-Ben Peinaar (piano) [ Avie / CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Autumn 2020 offered Daniel-Ben Pienaar an opportunity, not because the world was in lockdown but rather for the benefit it provided. A professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, Daniel-Ben was allowed overnight access to the RAM's Angela Burgess... |
FRITZ KREISLER / TOMASO ANTONIO VITALI / ARCANGELO CORELLI / GIUSEPPE TARTINI
La folia Sebastian Bohren (violin), Stringendo Zürich, Jens Lohmann (conductor) CHAARTS Chamber Artists [ Avie / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Sebastian Bohren's new album La folia is an affectionate homage - to Ida Haendel, one of his heroes; to fiddlers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and to the violin itself. The Swiss violinist says, "It is also like a hall of mirrors... |
Antonín Dvořák, Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Lehár, Franz Liszt etc
La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Mark Fewer (violin), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian has travelled far and wide, as an international opera star and an Armenian who was born in Lebanon, immigrated to Canada, and is now settled in southern California. Her life is a journey that informs her new recording... |
JAMES LEE III
Voyages - Orchestral music by James Lee III ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, conductor [ Avie / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] In Voyages, prolific American composer James Lee III takes the listener on a colourful journey through his endlessly creative orchestral music; painting biblical imagery in Beyond Rivers of Vision and celebrating the joyous Feast of Tabernacles... |
André Previn, Charles Griffes, John Kander, Kurt Weill, Samuel Barber
Desiderium John Matthew Myers, tenor Myra Huang, piano [ Avie / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] The star of tenor John Matthew Myers is rapidly in the ascendent. His debut album, Desiderium, coincides with his Metropolitan Opera debut in Brett Dean's Hamlet. Desiderium - "an ardent desire or longing, a feeling of loss or grief for something... |
Arcangelo Corelli, Astor Piazzolla, Duke Ellington, George David Weiss, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Hugo Peretti (etc.)
Shining Night Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), Jason Vieaux (guitar), Fabio Bidini (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 6/May/2022 ] Anne Akiko Meyers has amassed a multitude of fans and admirers for her exquisitely curated recordings, often exploring her passion for new music, and old music in new guises. Her quest for creative collaborations has inspired countless commissions... |
Bruce Wolosoff
Paradise Found - Music for Cello and Piano by Bruce Wolosoff Bruce Wolosoff (piano), Sara Sant'Ambrogio (cello) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Apr/2022 ] The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably... |
FLORENCE PRICE / VALERIE COLEMAN / JESSIE MONTGOMERY
Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman Michelle Cann (piano), New York Youth Symphony, Michael Repper (conductor) [ Avie / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] In the midst of the COVID pandemic, the remarkably resourceful personnel and musicians of the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), with Music Director Michael Repper, found a way to come together during a time of separation to make their debut recording. |
ELENA RUEHR
Icarus and other music by Elena Ruehr Jon Manasse (clarinet), Donald Berman (piano), Tom Stone (violin), Borromeo String Quartet, Delgani String Quartet, Arneis Quartet [ Avie / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] Composer Elena Ruehr adds to her extensive discography with Icarus, an album of chamber music infused with hints of history, legendary literature and close collaborations with a multitude of musical colleagues. The repertoire revolves around the... |
AUGUSTA READ THOMAS / SALLY GREENAWAY / LAURA ZAERR / LIBBY LARSEN / etc
In Transit Emily Granger (harp) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] "Yes, it's beautiful, but it also showcases the instrument's versatility and depths of colour and timbre attainable." ★★★★ - BBC Music Magazine |
Apollo's Fire, Baroque Orchestra, Jeannette Sorrell
O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths [ AVIE / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] "Programmed with real vision and beautifully performed, this is a mesmerising portrait of Old Jerusalem reimagined through sound." BBC Music |
Joachim Raff
Joachim Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano Christoph Croisé (cello), Oxana Shevchenko (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 4/Feb/2022 ] The beautiful, lyrical music of prolific 19th-century Swiss composer Joachim Raff was widely performed during his lifetime but is relatively under-represented today. Who better than Christoph Croisé, Raff's modern day compatriot, to breathe new... |
Various
Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers Apollos Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor), Meredith Hall (soprano), Ensemble Le Nef & Sylvain Bergeron [ AVIE / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] "Oikan ains Bethlehem." With these Gaelic words, a candle is lit, a procession is launched, and a haunting Christmas journey unfolds. Sacrum Mysterium, Apollo's Fire's hugely popular Celtic Christmas program, which premiered in six sold-out concerts. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Conquering Hero - Complete Works for Cello & Piano Jennifer Kloetzel (cello), Robert Koenig (piano) [ Avie / 3 CD - released 21/Jan/2022 ] "Kloetzel and Koenigs benchmark Beethoven is a masterclass in musicianship" - BBC Music magazine, Recording of the Month |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), Richard Egarr (harpsichord) [ AVIE / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "..this new recording achieves a pleasing balance and integration of texture, with Cunningham carefully differentiating between leading and subsidiary passages in her part, and Richard Egarr choosing well-contrasted timbres." BBC Music |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Francisco Fullana (violin), Apollo's Fire (Baroque orchestra), Jeannette Sorrell (director, harpsichord), Alan Choo (leader, violin) [ Avie / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] "Fullana and Sorrell's brilliant baroque band from Cleveland reveals Vivaldi's most popular work in spring-cleaned colours, like the restoration of an old master." - The Sunday Times (No. 3: Top 10 Classical Albums of the Year 2021) |
MODES MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Oct/2021 ] "A Mussorgsky melange full of surprises … David Nice enjoys [a] multi-faceted recital… vivid character… a picture-perfect presentation of both text and music… classy work all-round" ★★★★ Choral & Song Choice, BBC Music magazine Christmas 2021 |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse Charles Owen (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] "Accomplished with thorough and refined pianistic skill and a wholehearted identification with Liszt's message, Owen's music-making is powerfully compelling." - Editor's Choice, Gramophone November 2021 |
Christoph Croisé, Giovanni Sollima, György Ligeti, Péter Pejtsik, Thomas Buritch, Zoltán Kodály
The Solo Album Christoph Croisé (cello) [ Avie / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Modernism. Multiculturism. Multi-tuning. Lockdown. These are among the elements that bind the works on The Solo Album by award winning cellist Christoph Croisé, who took the opportunity of 2020's coronavirus isolation to work intensively on a... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / WILLIAM BOLCOM F
Chopin / Bolcom: Vers le silence Ran Dank (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] At first glance, the musical worlds of Frédéric Chopin and William Bolcom would seem strange bedfellows. But on his solo debut recording, Israeli American pianist Ran Dank makes a convincing case for pairing the two composers... |
