ERIC SATIE
Erik Satie (LP) Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Eric Le Sage (piano), Juliette (voice), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean Delescluse (tenor) [ Harmonia Mundi / LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "My aim in this disc has been to offer the richest possible panorama of Satie's piano music, spanning his whole lifetime. Immersed in the world of Satie, we were touched, and often deeply moved by the trust he shows in his interpreters." A. Tharaud. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (LP) Alfred Brendel (piano) [ Vinyl Passion / LP - released 5/Feb/2021 ] |
Andrea Bocelli, with Matteo Bocelli, Ed Sheeran, Josh Groban, Dua Lipa, Aida Carifullina & Ensemble
Sì (LP) [ Decca / 2 LP - released 26/Oct/2018 ] Presenting Sì: Andrea Bocelli's first album of new material in 14 years. It's a set of powerful, emotional songs, some featuring interpolations of classical themes (from, for example, Bach and Massenet), and an all encompassing positive message of... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Intimate Chopin (LP) Andrei Gavrilov, Alexandre Tharaud, Samson Francois, Nicholas Angelich, Nikolai Lugansky, Ingrid Fliter [ Warner Classics / LP - released 30/Sep/2022 ] Not very forthcoming as a person, Chopin invents a new type of touch, able to render the immaterial, to encompass absolute limpidity, and the full gamut of modern pianism...the versions collected here are all performed by Warner's greatest artists. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (LP) Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm, Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / JOSEPH HAYDN
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 'The Great' / Haydn: Symphony No. 88 (LP) Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 25/Feb/2018 ] Recorded in Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, 1951 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 [2 LP] Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon LP / 2 LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] "Outstanding ... With excellent sound, there are few versions to match this, presenting Abbado at his peak." (Penguin Guide to Classical Music) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites - Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake (LP) Berliner Philharmoniker, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Rostropovich's accounts of the gorgeous Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake Ballet Suites. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 [LP] Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir John Barbiroll [ Warner Classics LP / 2 LP - released 4/Apr/2019 ] A magnificent and best-selling version of Mahler's ultimate masterpiece by one of the greatest Mahlerians of the 20th Century. |
MAURICE RAVEL / ARVO PART / J. S. BACH / LUDOVICO EINAUDI etc
Relaxing Classics Bertrand Chamayou, Gautier Capuçon, Emmanuel Pahud, Frank Braley, Michel Dalberto, Renaud Capuçon [ Warner Classics / LP - released 17/Jun/2022 ] Artists: Bertrand Chamayou, Gautier Capuçon, Emmanuel Pahud, Frank Braley, Michel Dalberto, Renaud Capuçon, Dalal Bruchmann, Min Kym, Carlos Cipa, Martha Argerich, Andrew von Oeyen, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Maxence Cyrin, David Fray, Florent... |
JANACEK / LISZT / LYAPUNOV / GRIEG etc
Good Night! (LP) Bertrand Chamayou (piano) [ Erato / LP - released 2/Oct/2020 ] The sixteen lullabies - or berceuses - that pianist Bertrand Chamayou has chosen for Good Night! form a captivatingly varied album. His programme embraces a diversity of eras and musical cultures: Chopin, Liszt, Grieg and, of course, Brahms through... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Régine Crespin, James King, Christa Ludwig, Gottlob Frick / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca / 5 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] For these new editions, a decade since the last remastering, a completely new set of high-definition 24 bit/192kHz transfers of the original master tapes have been utilized. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (LP) Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Gustav Neidlinger, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Sony Classical / 6 Vinyl Box Set - released 4/Aug/2023 ] "The greatest recording of all time": Gramophone Magazine 1999 · BBC Music Magazine 2011 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets (LP) Busch Quartet [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 3 LP - released 1/Jun/2020 ] "Anyone can take a few bars at random and find playing which is a model of style and full of insight … When you listen to the Busch, they always seem for the moment to have found the true and only path." The Gramophone |
HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR & OTHERS
TÁR (LP) Cate Blanchett (piano), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello, vocals), Sophie Kauer (cello) / Dresdner Philharmonia, London Contemporary Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon Vinyl / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] "More a concept album than a traditional musical facsimile of the film, the result is both creative and curious. Hildur Guðnadóttir's music lives within and without the film, and it rubs shoulders with snippets of Elgar and Mahler." BBC Music |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (LP) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum [ Vinyl Passion Classical / LP - released 5/Feb/2019 ] Recorded at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, September 1956 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (LP) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Leonard Bernstein [ Deutsche Grammophon / LP - released 25/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Bernstein's Mahler 1 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Mastered from original sources and pressed on 180g heavy-weight vinyl. |
TCHAIKOSVKY / CHOPIN / SCHUBERT / LISZT/ MUSSORGSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 & piano works (2 LP) Daniil Trifonov (Piano) / Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky LP / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Daniil Trifonov's classic Mariinsky Label album is now available on vinyl. Originally released in 2012, this album includes Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside a unique selection of recital repertoire, including Trifonov's interpretation of... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 1 & 3 / Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini (2LP) Denis Matsuev (piano) / Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ Mariinsky LP / LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Pressed on heavyweight 180g vinyl, this new verison of Denis Matsuev's deubt Mariinsky Label album also includes his 2015 recording of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1, which was described as 'electrifying' by Classica. This beautiful double LP set... |