VARIOUS FRENCH COMPOSERS
Gautier Capucon - Destination Paris [LP] Gautier Capucon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano & harpsichord) / Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Maîtrise de Radio France, Lionel Bringuier [ Erato Classics / LP - released 10/Nov/2023 ] A concept album of laidback repertoire from popular film melodies to French chansons to classical pieces - including "La Foule" by Édith Piaf, the main theme from Summer of '42 by Michel Legrand, "Beau soir" by Debussy, Sicilienne by Fauré, and "Chi... |
FAURE / GLAZUNOV / RACHMANINOFF
The Swan - Classic Works for Cello & Orchestra Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Erato / LP - released 19/May/2023 ] This recording takes a new look at some of the most enduring smaller-scale works in the cello's literature. Among those chosen and performed by Han-Na Chang, several are heard in their original forms. Elsewhere, however, new orchestral arrangements... |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Concertos (LP) Hilary Hahn (violin) / Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Deutsche Grammophon presents the first vinyl release of Hilary Hahn's first recording on Deutsche Grammophon of Bach Violin Concertos. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 3 LP - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Itzhak Perlman, the supreme violinist of his time, performs the supreme works for unaccompanied violin. In preparing the Bach 'Sonatas and Partitas', Perlman sought authenticity through the score itself, not through musicological research. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky [ Warner Classics / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] The distinctive character of each of Prokofiev's Violin Concertos seems rooted in its genesis: the first, nervy and iconoclastic, coincided with the Russian Revolution; the second, more sober and expansively lyrical, dates from 1935, when Prokofiev... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodney Friend [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] Itzhak Perlman is the supreme violinist of his time, adored by audiences around the world and a musician whose powerful but sympathetic artistic personality provides a model for the players who have followed him. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Serenade Melancolique (LP) Itzhak Perlman (violin) / The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ornandy [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/May/2020 ] In Perlman's words, Tchaikovsky "wears his heart on his sleeve" and his violin concerto is a work of "unabashed Romanticism". While bringing sensitivity and substance to his interpretation, Perlman never slips into sentimentality, and he leads an... |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Choral Fantasia (LP} Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] "They perform with the most tender expression in the slow movement, and there are fireworks from all three in the last movement" James Longstaffe "That Perlman and Barenboim have made distinguished-nay, superlative!-recordings of the Beethoven... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Jacqueline du Pre (cello) Daniel Barenboim (piano) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 20/May/2022 ] Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. |
CAVALLI / BORETTI / BONONCINI / Orlandini / HANDEL / etc
Jakub Józef Orliński: Facce d'Amore (LP) Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor) / Il pomo d'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 1/Jun/2020 ] "It's music by Luca Antonio Predieri (a nearcontemporary of Handel's) that really hits the mark. Predieri's gentle lyricism and clean lines suit Orliński's soft-grained voice well." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 "Ode an die Freiheit" (LP) June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus Konig, Jan-Hendrik Bootering / Various orchestras, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon LP / 2 LP - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Bernstein's legendary Beethoven performance "Ode to Freedom" (Symphony No. 9) with a special orchestra formed by members from both German States and the four Occupation Powers, celebrating the fall of Berlin Wall. |
TRADITIONAL
Carols from King's College, Cambridge (LP) King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, with The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble [ Warner Classics / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] It's not Christmas without the angelic voices of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. These fifteen popular carols were originally recorded between 1969 and 1976 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 4 Ballades / Barcarolle / Fantaisie (LP) Krystian Zimerman (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 28/Aug/2017 ] "Krystian Zimerman captures the poetry, fantasy and fire of these works with exquisite tone and unfailing sensitivity." BBC Music |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (LP) Krystian Zimerman (piano/conductor) / Polish Festival Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / 2 LP - released 11/Sep/2016 ] Original tapes remastered by EBS and pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / MAX BRUCH
Beethoven / Bruch: Violin Concertos (LP) Kyung-Wha Chung (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt [ Warner Classics / LP - released 6/May/2022 ] One of the great modern version of these two famous violin concertos, released on CD in 1992 and available for the first time on vinyl. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Project (LP) Ólafur Arnalds (cello) Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Mercury Classics / LP - 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.... |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: The Planets (LP) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Sir Adrain Boult [ Warner Classics / LP - released 19/Jun/2020 ] 'This magnificent performance of The Planets, recorded with an opulent realism, brings to a culmination Boult's supreme understanding of this work.' Gramophone |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Einaudi: Undiscovered (LP) Ludovico Einaudi (piano) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] A new collection of songs, personally selected by the world's biggest streaming "classical artist" - Ludovico Einaudi, from across more than 25 years of music making. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Impressions: The Sound of Debussy (LP) Michel Béroff, Samson François, Yuri Egorov (pianos) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini / Orchestre de chambre Jean-François Paillard, etc [ Warner Classics / LP - released 5/Mar/2018 ] "Music would take over at the point at which words become powerless, with the one and only object of expressing that which nothing but music could express… I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 / Five Ruckert-Lieder (LP) New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Janet Baker (mezzo) [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 2 LP - released 5/Nov/2021 ] "… an interpretation of commitment and intensity and the recording is one of the finest I have heard from EMI." Gramophone |