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RUGGLES The Complete Music of Carl Ruggles – May 16, 2012
The slim output of American composer Carl Ruggles was barely known outside specialist new-music circles in 1980 when Columbia Records (now Sony Classical) issued [...]
TCHAIKOVSKY, MENDELSSOHN Violin Concertos – May 14, 2012
Following his widely acclaimed Sony debut recording of fiddle showpieces, (his first release was actually a disc of Stravinsky chamber music for Melba Recordings) [...]
BENJAMIN GROSVENOR Chopin, Liszt, Ravel – May 11, 2012
When Benjamin Grosvenor won the keyboard award at the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2004, the British pianist was all of [...]
Artemis Quartet to release Schubert’s last three string quartets on Virgin Classics – May 10, 2012
The Artemis Quartet is to follow its award-winning survey of Beethoven’s complete string quartets with his contemporary Schubert’s final three essays in the form [...]
RIHM Astralis – May 09, 2012
Wolfgang Rihm, who runs the Institute of Modern Music at the Conservatory of Music in Karlsruhe, the city where he was born in 1952, [...]
WHITACRE Water Night – May 07, 2012
There’s no arguing with success, and Eric Whitacre is arguably enjoying a degree of critical and commercial popularity unsurpassed by any art-music composer living [...]
Magdalena Kožená teams up with Simon Rattle’s BPO for debut orchestral songs recording on DG – May 07, 2012
Magdalena Kožená has recorded orchestral songs by Ravel, Dvořák and Mahler with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker for Deutsche Grammophon. Love and [...]
BERG / HARTMANN Tief in der Nacht – May 04, 2012
That song was Alban Berg’s means, in musical terms, of learning to walk before he could run has long been recognized, although the relative [...]
Evan Mack’s opera ‘Angel of the Amazon’ released by Albany Records – May 03, 2012
A recording of the 2011 New York premiere production of Evan Mack’s Angel of the Amazon is to be released by Albany Records. The [...]
DANIEL BARENBOIM Liszt Piano Concertos – May 02, 2012
Never out of the repertoire during their 150-year history, Liszt’s piano concertos hardly convey the extent of his achievement yet remain among the highpoints [...]
