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ERIC WHITACRE
Whitacre: Home (LP) Voces8, with Christopher Glynn (piano) & Emma Denton (cello) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Two branches of choral royalty entwine with majestic harmony on the latest release from Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre and acclaimed vocal ensemble VOCES8. The album includes a world premiere, All Seems Beautiful To Me, and a new recording of... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Op. 67 (LP) Wiener Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 22/Mar/2024 ] The nine Beethoven Symphonies are considered to be one of the greatest musical testaments of all time and are a key staple in every conductor's repertoire. Simon Rattle performed the complete cycle with the Wiener Philharmoniker in live concerts,... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos (LP) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 LP - released 16/May/2025 ] Benefiting from the superb audio quality achieved in the exceptional acoustic of Boston's Symphony Hall, Yo-Yo Ma gives inspired performances of Shostakovich's two cello concertos. The inventive First was written for another friend, Mstislav... |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Must the Devil have all the good tunes? (LP) Yuja Wang (piano) / Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 23/Oct/2021 ] World Premiere Recording by the Grammy-winning team of Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. Featuring star Yuja Wang at the piano. The work was commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic and was inspired by an article about Dorothy Day in the... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (LP) Alice Coote, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music [ Warner Classics / 3 LP - released 18/Sep/2020 ] In 2009 in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel, and the 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge, the Choir of King's College, Cambridge performed Handel's best known work, Messiah, on Palm Sunday,... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Double Concerto in A minor Op. 102 (with Clara Schumann: Piano Trio) (LP) Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Pablo Fernandez (cello), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Lambert Orkis (piano) [ Sony Classical Vinyl / 2 LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] An aristocrat of the string world is united with one of its most exciting newcomers for this major new concerto release on Sony Classical. First joint album by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pablo Ferrández - a musical team for many years. |
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CAROLINE SHAW
Caroline Shaw: Orange (LP) Attacca Quartet [ Nonesuch / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2020 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw's Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, is out now on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. Orange, which features six of Shaw's pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (LP) Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm, Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT / JOSEPH HAYDN
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 'The Great' / Haydn: Symphony No. 88 (LP) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2018 ] Recorded in Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, 1951 |
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JANACEK / LISZT / LYAPUNOV / GRIEG etc
Good Night! (LP) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 2/Oct/2020 ] The sixteen lullabies - or berceuses - that pianist Bertrand Chamayou has chosen for Good Night! form a captivatingly varied album. His programme embraces a diversity of eras and musical cultures: Chopin, Liszt, Grieg and, of course, Brahms through... |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Régine Crespin, James King, Christa Ludwig, Gottlob Frick / 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. |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Gustav Neidlinger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Sony Classical / 6 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] "The greatest recording of all time": Gramophone Magazine 1999 · BBC Music Magazine 2011 |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (LP) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum [ Vinyl Passion Classical / LP - released 5/Feb/2019 ] Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, September 1956 |
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Yussef Dayes
Black Classical Music (Double Gatefold LP) [ Brownswood / 2 LP - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words: "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni [highlights] (LP) Eberhard Wachter, Joan Sutherland, Luigi Alva, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Vinyl Passion Classical / LP - released 25/Feb/2018 ] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. October & November, 1959 |
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JACOB SHEA & OTHERS
Eldbjørg Hemsing - Arctic (LP) Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Frode Fjellheim (vocal) / Arctic Philharmonic [ Sony Classical / LP - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "The six movements of Jacob Shea's Arctic Suite certainly evoke the world of film music...It 's left to the oldsters Palmgren and Ole Bull to show how memorable a good melody can actually be" BBC Music Five Stars |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed (LP) Chineke! Orchestra, Elena Urioste (violin), Max Richter [ Deutsche Gramophon / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] When Max Richter's Recomposed first exploded into our collective ears almost a decade ago, a 59-minutes-28-seconds sonic starburst, the effect for so many people was total. We hadn't heard anything like that, ever. |
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STEVE REICH
Reich: Reich / Richter (LP) Ensemble Intercontemporain [ Nonesuch / Warner / LP - released 5/Aug/2022 ] Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich's 'Reich/Richter', performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson. The composition was originally written to be performed with German visual artist Gerhard... |
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Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises (LP) [ Inertia / LP - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Not strictly classical, jazz or ambient electronica, this one-track, nine-movement album embodies the highest, most etiolated aspects of all three disciplines. British artist Sam "Floating Points" Shepherd is the anchor here, an electronic free... |