Classical Highlights for July 2024


The classical albums of notice this month discovered our reviewers protecting each the acquainted in new methods and the unfamiliar. Among the many former are orchestrations of Brahms’ music by later composers, performed by Michael Stern. Among the many latter is the third quantity of Haydn’s Piano Trios from Trio Gaspard (pictured). The ensemble all the time features a new piece as properly, that displays on the unique Classical-era music. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of many earliest operas ever written, can also be acquainted, however Stéphane Fuget and his group Les Épopées give it an immediacy hardly ever heard. Lastly, cellist Laura van der Heijden offers us a brand new, enticing, nature-themed concerto by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

July Classical Reviews
July Classical Opinions

Akropolis Reed Quintet – Are We Dreaming the Identical Dream?

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano – Stradella: Mottetti

Marin Alsop, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Margaret Brouwer: Rhapsodies

Alain Altinoglu, Frankfrut Radio Symphony – Florent Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome; Chant Élégiaque

L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar – Surprise Girls

Cecilia Bartoli – Casta Diva

Nicola Benedetti, Benjamin Grosvenor, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Philharmonia Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali – Beethoven: Triple Concerto

Donald Berman – Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 “Harmony, Mass., 1840-1860”; The St. Gaudens (“Black March”)

Claire Sales space, Christopher Glynn – Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music

Leon Botstein, The Orchestra Now – The Misplaced Era: Apostel, Kauder, Busch

Dennis Mind, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Concertos pour Cor

Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrenas – Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 87: Reinecke, Sauer

Bertrand Chamayou – Cage2

Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck – Sonatas & Myths: Bartók, Szymanowski, Dohnányi

Helen Charlston, Man Slicing, Rowan Pierce, Academy of Historic Music, Choir of the Queen’s School, Oxford, Owen Rees – How Are the Mighty Fallen: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini

William Christie, Justin Taylor – Dialog: Gaspard Le Roux – Suites pour deux clavecins

Johan Dalene, Eivind Ringstad, Ariel Lanyi, Alexandre Zanettam Howard Griffiths – Mozart: Sinfonia Concerante KV 364; Rondos KV 382 & 386; Horn Concerto No. 2 KV 417

María Dueñas, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel – Gabriela Ortiz: Revolución diamantina

Duo Yumeno – Daron Hagen: Heike Quinto

JoAnn Falletta, Nikki Chooi, Amy Porter, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Lukas Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Items; Ode

Michael Francis, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz – Beethoven: The Mahler Re-Orchestrations

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts – Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park – Queen of Hearts

Saskia Giorgini – Debussy: Pictures

Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou – Messiaen

Samuel Hasselhorn, Poznan Philharmonic, Lukasz Borowicz – Urlicht: Songs of Dying and Resurrection

Janine Jansen, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä – Sibelius, Prokofiev 1: Violin Concertos

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1

Otto Klemperer, Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz – Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

Mari Kodama, Momo Kodama, Karin Kei Nagano, Kent Nagano – Mozart & Poulenc: Double & Triple Concertos

Pavel Kolesnikov, Samson Tsoy – Franz Schubert, Leonid Desyatnikov

Magdalena Kožená, Czech Philharmonic, Simon Rattle – Czech Songs

Lorelei Ensemble – Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales

Rory MacDonald, Royal Scottish Nationwide Orchestra – Our Gilded Veins

Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: The Full Symphonies

Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Holst: The Planets

Juanjo Mena, Basque Nationwide Orchestra – Gabriel Erkoreka: Cello Concerto ‘Ekaitza’; Tres Sonetos de Michelangelo; Piano Concerto ‘Piscis’

Yehudi Menuhin, Edward Elgar – Elgar: Violin Concerto; “Enigma” Variations

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – Ravel: Piano Concerto; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4

Alessandro Milani, Luca Ranieri, Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni, Massimo Belli – W.A. Mozart: Adagio and Fugue KV 546; Sinfonia Concertante KV 364; Symphony No. 27 KV 199

Mishka Rushdie Momen – Reformation

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Chamber Orchestra of Europe – Johannes Brahms: The Symphonies

Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Elsa Dreisig, Fatma Mentioned, Stefan Plewniak – Gluck: Orfeo & Euridice

Tarmo Peltokoski, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Mozart Symphonies

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque – The Muses Restor’d

Poor Clares of Arundel – My Peace I Give You

Christoph Poppen, WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra – Mozart: Mass No. 7 ‘Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis’; Missa Brevis in D main; Missa Brevis in B flat main

Julian Prégardien, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget – Monteverdi: L’Orfeo

Quartetto Adorno – Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Full String Quartets

Rachel Redmond, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan – Rachel Baptist: Eire’s Black Syren

Martin Roscoe, Kathryn Stott, George Lloyd – George Lloyd: The Piano Concertos

Gil Rose, Sarah Brady, Gabriela Díaz, Boston Fashionable Orchestra Undertaking – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5

Skylark – Clear Voices within the Darkish

Pierre Solot – Ernesto Lecuona: Piano Music

Michael Stern, Kansas Metropolis Symphony – Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations

John Storgårds, Albert Dohmen, Estonian Nationwide Male Choir, BBC Philharmonic – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 “Babiy Yar”; Arvo Pärt: De profundis

Gavin Sutherland, English Nationwide Ballet Philharmonic – Glazunov: Raymonda

Takács Quartet – Schubert: String Quartet in G main D887; String Quartet in B flat main D112

Robin Tritschler, Philip Higham, Malcolm Martineau, Sean Shibe – Songs for Peter Pears

Laura van der Heijden, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth – Bridge: Oration; Frances-Hoad: Earth, Sea, Air; Walton: Cello Concerto

Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra – Mahler 3

György Vashegyi, Hungarian Nationwide Philharmonic Orchestra – Jules Massenet: Werther (Model Baryton)

VOCES8 Basis Choir & Orchestra – To Sing of Love

Konstanze von Gutzeit, Oliver Triendl, Christiane Silber – Maria Herz: Piano Concerto; Cello Concerto; Orchestral Works

John Wilson, Sinfonia of London – Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra – Robert Saxton: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Man Yehuda – Between Two Worlds: Prokofiev, Engel, Ben-Haim

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