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GIACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Messa di Gloria Eleonora Buratto, Teresa Iervolino, Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Expanding their notable Rossini discography, Sir Antonio Pappano and the Chorus and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform the composer's Messa di Gloria of 1820. |
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CLARA SCHUMANN
Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Holly Mathieson [ Decca / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "it is the performances of the two song transcriptions that show what a gifted musician Kanneh-Mason is." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice August 2019 |
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SATIE / RAVEL / DEBUSSY / FAURE / POULENC
Michael Houstoun - Trois Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Oct/2017 ] Michael Houstoun's second release on Rattle in 2017, following the exceptional tour de force of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, is a selection of personal favourites from the repertoire of French piano music. Trois is an album of absolutely... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Violin concerto / Violin Sonata Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle [ Erato / CD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto |
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MAURICE RAVEL / MANUEL DE FALLA / ERIK SATIE / FRANCIS POULENC
Camino Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Pentatone / CD - released 20/Aug/2021 ] "Vivid, beguiling and intensely intimate" BBC Music Recording of the Month Oct 2021 |
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SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / STRAUSS / GRIEG / etc
Love Songs Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "...The real treats are Hewitt's own arrangements...In all, this beautifully recorded recital is a gift to all song-loving pianists who wrestle with the instrument's stubbornly percussive nature." BBC Music Five Stars - Instrumental Choice Sept 2021 |
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JOSQUIN DES PRES
Josquin: Motets & Mass movements The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Biographical and musicological certainties may be in short supply in the life and work of Josquin, but there's no gainsaying the magnificence of the music recorded here: a programme of shorter works, most in unusual guise, to celebrate his 500th... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets Op.18, Vol.1 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "Sensitively considered, wonderfully detailed and engagingly scintillant." MusicWeb Recommended |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Capuçon's impetuosity and thoughtfulness are complemented by Haitink's lifelong engagement with this music...Each of the [chamber] works is played with collective grace and elan by these crème de la crème chamber musicians." Sunday Times |
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HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa Lobos: Tristorosa Gunter Herbig (electric guitar) [ Aldilá Records / CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Gunter Herbig, Brazilian-German guitarist living in New Zealand, is well-known for his benchmark-setting performances of New Zealand guitar music by Lilburn and Farquhar for the Naxos label. His Gurdjieff transcriptions for electric guitar 'ex... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart Momentum - 1785 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 28/May/2021 ] 'Socially distanced they may have been but the camaraderie that was so evident in their groundbreaking Beethoven cycle with Leif Ove Andsnes is, if anything, even more apparent here.' Gramophone Recording of the Month June 2021 |
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JOHN TAVENER
Tavener: No longer mourn for me & other works for cello Steven Isserlis (cello) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir, Omer Meir Wellber [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] BBC Music Award WINNER - Premier Award 2021 Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2020 |
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AARON COPLAND / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / GEORGE GERSHWIN / CHARLES IVES / etc
Alison Balsom - Quiet City Alison Balsom (trumpet) / Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] "As an entity it creates a varied album in every kind of mood. It will delight anyone, not only the trumpet expert, who admires Balsom's eclecticism and musical brilliance...Balsom's virtuosity is spellbinding throughout." Guardian |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Variations Angela Hewitt (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "No qualifications are required for Angela Hewitt's new Beethoven album..Hewitt's touch is remarkably nimble and poetic" The Times |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Beatrice Rana (piano) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Her detailing is one of the aspects that makes this performance so compelling, be it the bringing out of a new line in the repeat, subtle changes in phrasing, a touch of pedal - examples are to be found in every single variation." Gramophone |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
The Chopin Project Ólafur Arnalds (cello) Alice Sara Ott (piano) [ Mercury Classics / CD - 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.... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces Stephen Hough (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "'One of the finest accounts of Brahms's late piano works on record, one that stands head and shoulders above most contenders in an ever-growing catalogue." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Instrumental |
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J.S. BACH / SCHUMANN / KURTAG / BARTOK / BRAHMS / KALDALONS / etc
Víkingur Ólafsson - From Afar Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] The Icelandic pianist presents FromAfar, a unique double album containing two recordings of the same repertoire, one played on a Steinway concert grand, the other on an upright piano. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti Grossi: Op. 6 (1-6) The Akademie für Alte Musik, Bernhard Forck [ Pentatone / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin kickstarts their Handel trilogy with this recording of the first six concerti grossi op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel's concerti grossi soon gained fame as... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Volodos plays Brahms Arcadi Volodos (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2017 ] "Comparisons become irrelevant in interpretations of such mesmerising honesty. An award-winner if ever I heard one." Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Instrumental |