Classical Highlights for September 2024


Reviewers this month lined music well-known to extensive classical audiences and far that will probably be new to many, each from lately written works and works uncared for as time handed. Among the many former are piano quartets by Brahms, that includes the late Lars Vogt on piano in his closing recording, and Isata Kanneh-Mason’s recording of works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Additionally highlighted had been uncommon operatic recordings, equivalent to Leoš Janáček’s opera The Excursions of Mr. Brouček and the recorded premiere of Joachim Raff’s Die Eifersüchtigen. Albums of recent music included Solos that includes compositions by The Nationwide’s Bryce Dessner and Anna Clyne: Shorthand, with Eric Jacobsen (pictured) main his orchestra, The Knights.

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Eivind Aadland, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra – Hjalmar Borgstrøm: Symphonic Poems – Tanken, Jesus i Gethsemane

Sharon Carty, Morgan Pearse, John Andrews, BBC Live performance Orchestra – Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral Songs

Sharon Bezaly, Wild Lovely Orchestra – Sorabji: Vocal and Chamber Works

Barbara Buntrock, Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt – Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3

Thomas Blondelle, Sieglinde Feldhofer, Marius Burkert – Franz Lehár: Schön ist die Welt

Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov – Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8, 9

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Charles Villiers Stanford: Partsongs, Pastorals and Folksongs

Sarah Connolly, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Malcolm Martineau – Brahms Songbook, Vol. 2

Nicholas Daniel, Julius Drake – Robert & Clara Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano

Danish String Quartet – Keel Highway

Alexandra Dariescu, Tianyi Lu, Philharmonia Orchestra – Clara Schumann, Edvard Grieg: Piano Concertos

Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, Dennis Russell Davies, Dalia Stasevska – Thomas de Hartmann: Rediscovered

Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra – Dvorák: Symphonies Nos 6-9 [2024 Remaster + Smetana, Janacek]

Bryce Dessner – Solos

Quatuor Diotima – Bruckner & Klose: String Quartets

Alexandre Dossin – George Walker: Full Piano Works, Vol. 2

Mahan Esfahani – Bach: Preludes; Innovations; Sinfonias

Byron Fidetzis – Spyridon Samaras: Tigra; Epinikeia; Chitarrata

Jean-Paul Gasparian – Origins

Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss – American Highway Journey

True Harmony Voices & Orchestra, Eric Holtan, Jeffrey Biegel – A Dream So Vivid: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

Charlotte Hu – Liszt: Metamorphosis

Eric Jacobsen, The Knights – Anna Clyne: Shorthand

Paavo Järvi, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Karl Jenkins, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Karl Jenkins: Stravaganza

Isata Kanneh-Mason – Mendelssohn

Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman – Scaramella: Obrecht, Fitch, Brumel, Agricola

Juliana Koch, Julian Bliss, Michael McHale – Ruth Gipps: Piper of Goals

Konstantin Krimmel, Ammiel Bushakevitz – Mythos: Schubert, Loewe

Quatuor Van Kuijk – Impressions parisiennes

Jaroslav Březina, Aleš Briscein, Jaroslav Kyzlink – Leos Janácek: The Excursions of Mr. Broucek

François Lazarevitch, Sandrine Chatron, Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien – Mozart: Concertos pour flûte; Concerto pour flûte et harpe

Manuel Lipstein – Roots: Telemann, Hindemith, Feldbusch, Lipstein, Cassadó

Viktoriia Vitrenko, Alexei Lubimov – Valentin Silvestrov: Forgotten Phrase I Wished to Say

Gergely Madaras, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège – Liszt: Faust-Symphony; Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6

Harriet Krijgh, Baiba Skride, Elsbeth Moser, Andrew Manze – Sofia Gubaidulina: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Bayan; Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Cello

Maria Narodytska – Battle Poems: Szymanowski, Chopin, Narodytska, Shostakovich, Liakhovych

Lise Davidsen, Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker – Sommernachtskonzert Schönbrunn 2024

Emöke Baráth, Philippe Estèphe, Hervé Niquet, Le Live performance Spirituel – Fauré: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis

Gianandrea Noseda, Nationwide Symphony Orchestra – Carlos Simon: 4 Symphonic Works

Olga Pashchenko, Il Gardellino – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23

Arnaud De Pasquale – Mozart à Paris 1778

Rachel Barton Pine – Corelli: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5

Matthias Bein, Mirjam Fässler, Joonas Pitkänen – Raff: Die Eifersüchtigen

Lawrence Energy, Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto; Absence; Serenades

Rachel Lee Priday, David Kaplan – Fluid Dynamics

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Riccardo Minasi, Ensemble Resonanz – Antonín Kraft, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos

Natalie Christa Rakes, arx duo, Dover Quarte – Steven Mackey: Memoir

La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton, Benjamin Perrot – Marin Marais: Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Max Richter – In a Panorama

Ernst Schlader, Bernhard Forck, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 33; Clarinet Concerto

Gabriel Schwabe, Nicholas Rimmer – Beethoven: Full Works for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek – Pleasure & Asymmetry: Rautavaara, Aho

Sitkovetsky Trio – Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 3 – Op. 1/1 & 70/1 ‘Ghost’

Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”; American Suite

Voces Suaves, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin – Bach’s Roots: Early Influences on the Younger Grasp

Varied Artists – Rebecca Dale: Night time Seasons

Varied Artists – Brett Dean: Rooms of Elsinore

Varied Artists – Holst: Savitri; The Planets; The Excellent Idiot Ballet Suite

Varied Artists – Tony Banks: 18 Items for Orchestra – 7, 6, 5

Sally Walker – Boccherini: Chamber Works for Flute

Andreas Willwohl, Daniel Heide – Viola & Piano: Schubert & Shostakovich

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