credit: Nick Rutter
Jul. 1, 2025
As usual, we heard a wide-ranging variety of music this past month. What stands out in the best releases is the thoughtfulness, whether in the programming of the selected works or the interpretation of them. Anna Lapwood's (pictured) Firedove was meant to keep listeners guessing and engaged. The Lost Tapes of Sviatoslav Richter demonstrate in detail the profoundness of his playing. Andris Nelsons was joined by pianist Yuja Wang for an elegant entry in his series covering the orchestral music of Shostakovich. And oboist Nicholas Daniel discovers the enjoyable, mid-20th century music of Madeleine Dring. Browse through the list to find other intriguing interpretations and programs.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Kurtág: Játékok
Benjamin Alard, Gerlinde Sämann - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 10 - Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530; Notenbüchlein für A.M. Bach
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu - For Dieter: The Past and the Future - Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Nicola Benedetti, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon - Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Le Consort - Begin the Song!: A Purcell Academy
Michel Béroff - Bach: Overture in the French Style; Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30 & 31
Eleonora Buratto, Jonathan Tetelman, Ludovic Tézier, Daniel Harding - Puccini: Tosca
Karina Canallakis, Gábor Bretz, Rinat Shaham, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra - Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Francesca Chiejina, Sarah Connolly, David Temple, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple - Elgar: The Kingdom
Marianne Croux, Cyrille Dubois, Coline Dutilleul, Guilhem Worms - Georges Bizet: Les Mélodies
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - Maurice Greene: Jephtha
Nicholas Daniel, Adam Walker, Amy Harman, Antonio Oyarzábal - Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe
Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Baroklyn - Complicité: Bach, Philip Lasser
Ensemble Louise Farrenc - Farrenc, Firsova, Bonis: Chamber Music
Eusebius Quartet - Elgar & Fauré: String Quartets
Isabelle Faust, Jean- Frédéric Neuburger - Ligeti: Concertos - Violin, Piano & Romanesc
Pablo Ferrández - Moonlight Variations
Fretwork - My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly
George Xiaoyuan Fu - Colouring Book
Ophélie Gaillard - Cello Tango
John Eliot Gardiner, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies
Edward Gardner, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir - Rachmaninov: The Bells; Symphonic Dances
Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Brahms: Lieder
Girton College Choir, Cambridge; Jeremy West; Western Wyndes - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 5: Motets for the Liturgical Year
Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3; Ballade No. 1; Berceuse; Nocturnes
Franz Halász - Villa-Lobos: The Complete Solo Works
Thomas Hampson, Würth Philharmoniker, Claudio Vandelli - Brahms/Glanert: Vier Präludien und Ernste Gesänge; Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Joseph Haydn; Etc.
Domingo Hindoyan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Souvenir de Florence
Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch - Be Still My Heart: Robert Gund & Wilhelm Grosz
Jack Quartet - Austin Wulliman: Escape Rites
Marija Jelic, Dario Salvi, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - Adolphe Adam: Griseldis
Lucas Jussen, Arthur Jussen - Cantus
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2: Brahms, Héritte-Viardot
Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Shostakovich & Britten
Les Kapsber'girls - Vox Feminae
Kebyart - Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel
Julian Kershaw, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Oliver Davis: Life
Bomsori Kim, Jakub Hrůša - Bruch & Korngold
Felix Klieser, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Jamie Phillips Northern Colours
David Korevaar - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas - Heroic to Hammerklavier
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Viktor Kalabis: Duettina; Chamber Music; Diptych
Carolyn Kuan, American Composers Orchestra - Huang Ruo: An American Soldier
Anna Lapwood - Firedove
Yunchan Lim, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop - Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3
London Symphony Orchestra, Steve Schermer, Jonathan Pasternack, Bobby Collins - Orchestrating the Wild: Sarah Louise Bassingthwaighte
Charlie Lovell-Jones, Bill Anderson, Rumon Gamba - Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Magdalen College Choir, Oxford; Mark Williams - Be Still My Soul: Hymns from Magdalen
Jaime Martin, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Gustav Holst: The Planets (and Earth)
Ariane Matiakh, Patricia Petibon, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Charles Koechlin: Symphony No. 1; Au loin; 3 Mélodies
Anne Akiko Meyers - Beloved
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6
Clare O'Connell - Light Flowing
Kristine Opolais, Günther Groissböck, Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Laurence Perkins - Honey-Coloured Cow: Moosic for Bassoon
Aaron Pilsan - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Anna Prohaska, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi - Mozart: Haffner-Akademie
Konrad Ragossnig - Spanish Guitar Recital
Lucy Railton - Blue Veil
Simon Rattle, Agneta Eichenholz, Katarina Karnéus, London Symphony Orchestra - Janáček: Jenůfa
Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé - Northern Light: Echoes from 17th-century Scandinavia
Sviatoslav Richter - The Lost Tapes: Beethoven – Sonatas Nos. 18, 27, 28 & 31
Christophe Rousset, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques - Antonio Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan de' Tartari
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Schubert's Four Seasons
Aziz Shokhakimov, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Handel: Messiah - Choruses
Albert Cano Smit - Bach: The Art of Fugue
Yeol Eum Son, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Anja Bihlmaier - Ravel: Concertos; Bach/Wittgenstein
Arabella Steinbacher, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Gustavo Gimeno - Beethoven & Lentz
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge; Christopher Gray - Lament & Liberation
Justin Taylor - Chopin Intime
Alexandre Tharaud - Concertos: Thierry Pécou, Ramon Lazkano, Alex Nante
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen - Michael Gordon: A Western; Caroline Shaw: How to Fold the Wind
Francesco Tristano- Bach: The 6 English Suites
György Vashegyi - Édouard Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys
Mathilde Vialle, Thibaut Roussel, Ronan Khalil, Zachary Wilder - The Last Rose: Songs, Tunes and Dances from a Mysterious Manuscript
Mathias Vidal, Valentin Tournet - Rameau: Platée
Yuja Wang, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
Franz Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra - Julius Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2
Kahchun Wong, The Hallé - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Zemlinsky Quartet - Bedrich Smetana: String Quartets