Leontyne Price, Vienna Philharmonic Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
Songs For Christmas (LP) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Leontyne Price's heavenly soprano lights up 13 Christmas favorites on this wonderful 1961 album recorded in Vienna, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. On this vinyl "Silent Night", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "O Tannenbaum", "Ave Maria", "O Holy... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet (The Complete Ballet) (180g 3LP) London Sympony Orchestra / Andre Previn [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 4/Apr/2019 ] The violent feud between the Montagues and Capulets is evoked by the swaggering Dance of the Knights, but Prokofiev's score brims with bittersweet lyricism in its depiction of the young lovers, proving him Russian ballet's heir to Tchaikovsky. First... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain (LP) The Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Craft / LP - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Hailed as "one of the best recordings Telarc has ever done" by Stereophile, the 1980 recording of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by The Cleveland Orchestra and conducted by the legendary Lorin Maazel, cemented Telarc's status as... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Guitar Music (LP) Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] A newly recorded collection of highlights from Bach's great corpus of instrumental writing, in transcriptions by Luigi Attademo himself. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (LP) Maria João Pires (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn [ Deutsche Grammophon LP / 2 LP - released 11/Mar/2022 ] "Pires's approach to the concerto is ardently lyrical, giving her spacious sense of rubato and radiant singing tone the greatest expressive freedom..Pires's wonderfully pliable phrasing and bell-like sonority soon win you over." (Gramophone) |
EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: Theory of Becoming (LP) Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works (2 LP) Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 2/Mar/2018 ] Max Richter explores time and memory in his latest Deutsche Grammophon album, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works Virginia Woolf's sharp eye for the detail of life guided her work as a writer, its presence felt in everything from pioneering... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert in Love (LP) Rosemary Standley; Ensemble Contraste; Johan Farjot; Arnaud Thorette [ Alpha Classics / LP - released 8/Jul/2022 ] "A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste: 'We all have a few notes of... |
W. A. MOZART
Amadeus - The Best of Mozart (LP) Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Christian Zacharias (piano), Wiener Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, etc [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Selected highlights from Mozart's masterpieces by wonderful artists such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti, Sabine Meyer, Natalie Dessay, Cecilia Bartoli and Christian Zacharias. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Mozart y Mambo (Limited Edition LP) Sarah Willis (horn) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Sarah Willis is a tireless ambassador for her instrument, the French horn, which she champions around the world. A horn player with the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001, she launched what was soon to become a famous TV programme,... |
Sarah Willis; Jonathan Kelly; Wenzel Fuchs; Stefan Schweigert; Harold Madrigal Frías; Havana Lyceum Orchestra; José Antonio Méndez Padrón; The Sarahba
Mozart y Mambo: La Bella Cubana LP) [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] |
Ravi Shankar / Philip Glass
Passages (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 9/Jun/2016 ] Passages is a collaborative chamber music studio album co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, released in 1990. The album is a hybrid of Hindustani Classical music and Glass' distinct American minimal contemporary Classical style. |
STEVE REICH
Reich: Pulse / Quartet (LP) Steve Reich [ Nonesuch / Warner Music / LP - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Pulse/Quartet collates two previously performed pieces, Quartet and Pulse. The former was performed in 2013 by the Colin Currie Group, and the latter was played in 2015 by the International Contemporary Ensemble. (Both ensembles replayed the... |
SUFJAN STEVENS
Stevens: Reflections For Two Pianos (Limited Edition LP) Timo Andres (piano), Conor Hanick (piano) [ Asthmatic Kitty / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] "I'm constantly thinking about bodies moving through space when I'm writing for ballet - that is what has informed this music, first and foremost," says Sufjan Stevens on Reflections, his latest collaboration with choreographer Justin... |
Jansons,Mariss/BR SO
JANSONS: His Last Concert (LP) [ Br-Klassik / LP ] On November 8, 2019, at Carnegie Hall, New York, during a tour with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and only a few weeks before his unexpected death, Mariss Jansons conducted his final concert. On the programme was Johannes Brahms'... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (2LP) Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra [ Mariinsky / 2 LP - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Valery Gergiev's acclaimed recording of The Nutcracker comes to vinyl for the first time. This Christmas classic comes as limited edition double LP set on festive red & green vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve and with a voucher code for free MP3 and... |
RAMEAU / POULENC / DEBUSSY / BRITTEN / KODALY etc
Viva! 30 ans d'art choral (LP version) Various Artists [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] The Fondation Bettencourt Schueller is celebrating thirty years of commitment to choral singing. To mark the occasion, it has decided to bring together nineteen excerpts from recordings made by ensembles it has supported since 1989, thanks to the... |
J. S. BACH
Johann Sebastian Bach - Víkingur Ólafsson (2LP) Vikingur Olafsson (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 31/Jul/2002 ] "Every track has its own allure, and many reflect a virtuosity which is never flaunted; he treats the preludes and fugues as though they had been conceived as tone-poems or études." BBC Music Five Stars |
MOZART
Mozart: Requiem (180g LP) Wiener Philharmonic, Karl Bohm [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Siegfried (LP) Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Gerhard Stolze, Gustav Neidlinger, Hans Hotter, Joan Sutherland / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 5 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] For these new editions, a decade since the last remastering, a completely new set of high-definition 24 bit/192kHz transfers of the original master tapes have been utilized. |