As , every month we assessment quite a lot of music from completely different eras, international locations, and genres. This month, most of the finest releases had been instrumental music, though there have been a number of nice vocal releases additionally. Organist and choral conductor Anna Lapwood launched her sophomore solo album to well-deserved acclaim. Between Breaths by award-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion (pictured) gathered a number of new, ingenious compositions. The well-loved Goldberg Variations had been recorded by pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and re-imagined by Chad Kelly for violinist Rachel Podger and her chamber orchestra Brecon Baroque. There have been additionally albums of French and Spanish music for piano trio by Trio Metral and the Hermitage Piano Trio respectively. So many decisions!
Marco Albonetti, Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri – Postcards from Italy: Italian Music for Movie
Benjamin Appl, Münchner Rundfunksorchester, Oscar Jockel – Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra
Tony Arnold, William Sharp, Seth Knopp – Eric Nathan: Some Favored Nook
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew – Schütz: Italian Madrigals
Sonya Bach – Mussorgsky: Photos at an Exhibition; Photos from Crimea; Night time on Bald Mountain; and so on.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takács-Nagy – Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 8
BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins – John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Occasions
Beth & Flo, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman – Oliver Davis: Blue
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburger Barockorchester – Mozart: Piano Concertos Okay. 238 & 503
Ian Bostridge, Jennifer France, James Atkinson, Wonsick Oh, Aron Goldin – Homelands
Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice – Guerrero: Ecce sacerdos magnus
Renaud Capuçon, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra – Mozart: The Violin Concertos
Julie Cherrier-Hoffmann, La Fenice Theater Orchestra, Frédéric Chaslin – Poulenc: La Voix humaine; Fiançailles pour rire
Cinquecento – Ludwig Daser: Missa Pater noster & different works
Conspirare, Miró Quartet, Craig Hella Johnson – Home of Belonging
Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass
Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances – Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de Minuit; In Nativitatem Domini Canticum
Cyrille Dubois, Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra, Gyorgy Vashegyi – Jouissons de nos beaux ans!
Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Mozart: Mass in C minor; C.P.E. Bach: Heilig ist Gott
Mahan Esfahani – Bach: The French Suites, BWV 812-817
Mathilde Etienne, Emilianó Gonzalez Toro, I Gemelli – Claudio Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth – Orazio Benevoli: Mass for 4 Choirs – Missa Tu es Petrus
Isabelle Faust – Solo
Ádám Fischer, Danish Chamber Orchestra – Haydn: Late Symphonies, Vol. 2 – Nos. 96 ‘The Miracle’, 97 and 98
Julia Fischer, Martin Helmchen – Franz Schubert: Full Works for Violin and Piano
Ophélie Gaillard, Sandrine Piau, Marina Viotti, Pulcinella Orchestra – Napoli!
Elīna Garanča, Wiener Philharmoniker, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sommernachtskonzert 2023
Kellen Grey, Royal Scottish Nationwide Orchestra – African American Voices II
Daniel Grossmann, Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich – Weinberg
Franz Hauk, Ketevan Chuntishvili, Yeree Suh, Concerto de Bassus – Antonio Sacchini: L’abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri
Dietrich Henschel, Sarah Wegener, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister – Hans Werner Henze: Das Floß der Medusa
Hermitage Piano Trio – Spanish Impressions
Hertfordshire Refrain, David Temple, Rufus Frowde – Nova! Nova! Pleasure to the World!
Domingo Hindoyan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – Verismo: Preludi e Intermezzi
Paul Huang, Helen Huang – Kaleidoscope
invoke – Evolve & Journey
Jasper String Quartet – Bugs & Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung
Zubin Kanga – Zubin Kanga: Cyborg Pianist
Miloš Karadaglić – Baroque
YuEun Kim, Mina Gajic, Coleman Itzko – Sonic Alchemy
The King’s Singers – Wonderland
Magdalena Kozená, Czech Philharmonic, Simon Rattle – People Songs
Kronos Quartet – Michael Gordon: Marketing campaign Songs
Joelle Lamarre, Gwendolyn Brown, Worldwide Modern Ensemble – George Lewis: Afterword, An Opera in Two Acts
Anna Lapwood – Luna
Delyana Lazarova, Hallé Orchestra- Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus’ Comet; Concerto for Viola and Strings; Earth Suite; Concerto for Cello and Strings
Bruce Levingston – With out Phrases
Bruce Liu – Waves: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan
Sofya Melikyan – Présence lointaine
Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra – Dmitri Shostakovich: Symhonies Nos. 2, 3, 12 & 13
La Néréide – Luzzaschi: Il concerto segreto
Víkingur Ólafsson – Bach: Goldberg Variations
Jakub Józef Orlinski – Past
Steven Osborne – Debussy: Études; Pour le Piano; Étude retrouvée; Berceuse Héroïque; La plus que lente
Ewa Poblocka – Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II
Rachel Podger, Chad Kelly, Brecon Baroque – Bach: Goldberg Variations Reimagined
Awadagin Pratt, Roomful of Enamel, A Far Cry – Stillpoint
Simon Rattle, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Wagner: Siegfried
Sophie Rosa, Ian Buckle – Closing Statements: Schumann, Schoenberg, Silvestrov
Choir of Royal Holloway, College of London; Ola Gjeilo – Ola Gjeilo: Dreamweaver
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayerisches Staatsorchester – Mendelssohn: Elias
Mark Simpson, Quatuor Diotima – Thomas Adès: Alchymia
Soloists of the Ensemble InterContemporain – Thomas Simaku: Solo
Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo’s Fireplace – Handel: Israel in Egypt
John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic – Weinberg: Daybreak; Symphony No. 12
John Storgårds, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Per Nørgård: Symphony No. 8; 3 Nocturnal Actions; Lysning
Sybarite5 – Collective Knowledge
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Orchestre Nationwide de Lyon – Aux Étoiles: French Symphonic Poems
The Tallis Students, Peter Phillips – John Sheppard: Missa Cantate
Justin Taylor – Bach & l’Italie
Tenebrae, Nigel Quick – Bach, MacMillan: Motets & Sacred Songs
Jonathan Tetelman – The Nice Puccini
Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Paavo Järvi – Brahms: Double Concerto, Op. 102; Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22; Dvorák: Silent Woods
Alexandre Tharaud, Orchestre Nationwide de France, Louis Langrée – Ravel: Piano Concertos
Third Coast Percussion – Between Breaths
Trio Metral – Chausson, Ravel: Piano Trios
Voce, New England’s Chamber Choir; Mark Singleton; Stephen Scarlato – Patrick Hawes: The Nativity
Martin Wåhlberg, Orkester Nord – Duni: Les deux chasseurs; Le peintre
Washington Bach Consort, Dana Marsh – Myths Contested
Antoni Wit, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra – Penderecki: Symphony No. 6 ‘Chinese language Songs’; Trumpet Concertino; Concerto doppio
Austin Wulliman – Information from Utopia
