Jul. 1, 2019
Several of the past month's best releases were not exactly your typical classical music fare. One was the married duo, Richard and Mika Stoltzman, together and in solo works for their respective instruments, clarinet and marimba. Another was the major label debut of conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, leading the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who is a composer still being re-discovered by audiences. There is also cycle of short piano pieces of Reynaldo Hahn, Le Rossignol éperdu, rarely heard in its entirety and evocatively performed by Yoonie Han.
Darrell Ang, Malmö Symphony Orchestra - D'Indy: Médée; Karadec Suite; Saugefleurie
Armonico Consort, Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge - Supersize Polyphony
Martin James Bartlett - Love and Death
Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman - Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria
Fabio Biondi - 1690 'Tuscan' Stradivari: Violin Sonatas in 18th-century Italy
The Brodsky Quartet, Martin Roscoe - Elgar: String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Calefax, Eric Vloeimans - Dido & Aeneazz
Michael Fabiano - Verdi, Donizetti
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini - La Morte della Ragione
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21
Howard Griffiths, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt - Jacques Offenbach: Folies symphoniques; Ouvertures
Yoonie Han - Reynaldo Hahn: Le Rossignol Éperdu - Poems for Piano
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Chorus, Concerto de Bassus - Gaetano Donizetti: Vesper Psalms
Guy Johnston, Britten Sinfonia, Christopher Seaman, King's College Choir of Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury - Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass
Alexandre Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 "L'Égyptien"
Yolanda Kondonassis, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Ward Stare - American Rapture: Higdon, Barber, Harlin
Magdalena Kozená - Il Giardino dei sospiri
Jenny Lin - Artur Schnabel: Complete Works for Solo Piano
Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Kaija Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'hiver
Magnificat - Heinrich Schütz: Cantiones sacrae
Andrew Manze, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Antartica"; Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Albrecht Mayer - Longing for Paradise
Paul McCreesh, Simon Russell Beale, Gabrieli Consort - An English Coronation, 1902-1953
Klara Min - Evocation: Scriabin, Mozart, Messiaen
Andris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Parsifal Prelude
Le Nuove Musiche, Krijn Koetsveld - Arvo Pärt: Magnificat; Stabat Mater
Martin Outram, Julian Rolton, Mark Padmore - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia
Adrian Partington - Stanford: Mass 'Via Victrix'; At the Abbey Gate
Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti [Music for the Motion Picture]
Gerald Peregrine, Antony Ingham - Folk Tales: British Cello and Piano Miniatures
Kirill Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin - Si j'ai Aimé
Timothy Redmond, Lawrence Zazzo, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove
Linus Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Antony Hermus - The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 22: Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason in Madness
Mari Samuelsen - Mari
Konstantin Scherbakov - 24 Transcendental Etudes: Liszt & Lyapunov
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - 40
Mika Stoltzman, Richard Stoltzman - Palimpsest
Leos Svárovsky - Dvorák: Saint Ludmila
Third Coast Percussion - Perpetulum: Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars
Brian Thornton - Debussy: Cello Sonata; Brahms: Clarinet Trio
Jason Vieaux, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero - Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 "Heichalos"; Guitar Concerto; Starburst
Alexander Walker, New Russia State Symphony Orchestra - Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 16; The Tinker's Wedding Overture
Larry Weng - Beethoven: Variations on Themes by Grétry, Paisiello, Righini, Winter
Wai Yin Wong - Franz Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 52 - Transcriptions from Operas by Auber and Verdi
Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra - David Matthews: Symphony No. 9; Variations for Strings; Double Concerto for Violin and Viola
Tianwa Yang, Gabriel Schwabe, Antoni Wit - Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77; Double Concerto, Op. 102
Darrell Ang, Malmö Symphony Orchestra - D'Indy: Médée; Karadec Suite; Saugefleurie
Armonico Consort, Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge - Supersize Polyphony
Martin James Bartlett - Love and Death
Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman - Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria
Fabio Biondi - 1690 'Tuscan' Stradivari: Violin Sonatas in 18th-century Italy
The Brodsky Quartet, Martin Roscoe - Elgar: String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Calefax, Eric Vloeimans - Dido & Aeneazz
Michael Fabiano - Verdi, Donizetti
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini - La Morte della Ragione
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21
Howard Griffiths, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt - Jacques Offenbach: Folies symphoniques; Ouvertures
Yoonie Han - Reynaldo Hahn: Le Rossignol Éperdu - Poems for Piano
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Chorus, Concerto de Bassus - Gaetano Donizetti: Vesper Psalms
Guy Johnston, Britten Sinfonia, Christopher Seaman, King's College Choir of Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury - Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass
Alexandre Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 3, 4 & 5 "L'Égyptien"
Yolanda Kondonassis, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Ward Stare - American Rapture: Higdon, Barber, Harlin
Magdalena Kozená - Il Giardino dei sospiri
Jenny Lin - Artur Schnabel: Complete Works for Solo Piano
Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Kaija Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel d'hiver
Magnificat - Heinrich Schütz: Cantiones sacrae
Andrew Manze, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Antartica"; Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Albrecht Mayer - Longing for Paradise
Paul McCreesh, Simon Russell Beale, Gabrieli Consort - An English Coronation, 1902-1953
Klara Min - Evocation: Scriabin, Mozart, Messiaen
Andris Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Parsifal Prelude
Le Nuove Musiche, Krijn Koetsveld - Arvo Pärt: Magnificat; Stabat Mater
Martin Outram, Julian Rolton, Mark Padmore - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia
Adrian Partington - Stanford: Mass 'Via Victrix'; At the Abbey Gate
Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti [Music for the Motion Picture]
Gerald Peregrine, Antony Ingham - Folk Tales: British Cello and Piano Miniatures
Kirill Petrenko, Berliner Philharmoniker- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
Sandrine Piau, Julien Chauvin - Si j'ai Aimé
Timothy Redmond, Lawrence Zazzo, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove
Linus Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Antony Hermus - The Romantic Violin Concerto, Vol. 22: Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason in Madness
Mari Samuelsen - Mari
Konstantin Scherbakov - 24 Transcendental Etudes: Liszt & Lyapunov
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - 40
Mika Stoltzman, Richard Stoltzman - Palimpsest
Leos Svárovsky - Dvorák: Saint Ludmila
Third Coast Percussion - Perpetulum: Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars
Brian Thornton - Debussy: Cello Sonata; Brahms: Clarinet Trio
Jason Vieaux, Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero - Jonathan Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 "Heichalos"; Guitar Concerto; Starburst
Alexander Walker, New Russia State Symphony Orchestra - Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 16; The Tinker's Wedding Overture
Larry Weng - Beethoven: Variations on Themes by Grétry, Paisiello, Righini, Winter
Wai Yin Wong - Franz Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 52 - Transcriptions from Operas by Auber and Verdi
Kenneth Woods, English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra - David Matthews: Symphony No. 9; Variations for Strings; Double Concerto for Violin and Viola
Tianwa Yang, Gabriel Schwabe, Antoni Wit - Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77; Double Concerto, Op. 102