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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRITTEN Arcadia Lost – Feb 01, 2012
Here’s yet another classy SACD offering from the Australian Melba label. The three items featuring the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Mark Wigglesworth’s shapely lead [...]
La Nuova Music release Handel world premiere for their debut on Harmonia Mundi – Feb 01, 2012
La Nuova Music, the London, England-based vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to performing the music of the European Renaissance and Baroque, is to release [...]
New York Polyphony embrace ancient and modern on their debut release for BIS Records – Feb 01, 2012
Male vocal quartet New York Polyphony’s first recording as exclusive artists for BIS Records will features first performances on disc of neglected works from [...]
Renée Fleming’s first ‘Shéhérazade’ on disc released by Decca Classics – Feb 01, 2012
Soprano Renée Fleming is to release her first recording of Ravel’s Shéhérazade on Decca Classics. The album of 20th-century French vocal masterpieces takes it’s [...]
MARIUSZ KWIECIEŃ Slavic Heroes – Jan 30, 2012
Given that the Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień is a major presence in opera on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s odd that he has [...]
Sony Classical celebrates 75th birthday of Philip Glass with ‘essential’ limited edition 3-CD set – Jan 30, 2012
Sony Classical is to release The Essential Philip Glass to mark the composer’s 75th birthday. The set includes excerpts from the composer’s three “portrait [...]
Karl Jenkins releases new choral work ‘The Peacemakers’ on EMI Classics – Jan 27, 2012
Karl Jenkins is to release The Peacemakers, the follow-up to his highly successful The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, on EMI Classics. The [...]
Lara St. John substitutes harp for harpsichord in Bach sonatas with Marie-Pierre Langlamet on Ancalagon – Jan 26, 2012
Violinist Lara St. John has partnered with Marie-Pierre Langlamet, principal harp with the Berlin Philharmonic, for a recording of Bach sonatas originally composed for [...]
Michael Tilson Thomas records John Adams’ ‘Harmonielehre’ with the San Francisco Symphony – Jan 25, 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are to release recordings of John Adams’ Harmonielehre and Short Ride in a Fast Machine on [...]
BACH Goldberg Variations – Jan 23, 2012
The sheer ingenuity of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations has led to an incalculable number of adaptations of the work for other instruments. Music [...]
