Apr. 1, 2019
In several countries, March is Women’s History Month, and so, accordingly, we reviewed a few of the recordings released for this year’s celebration. From Chicago’s Cedille label comes Project W, featuring new music by women composers performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta lead by Mei-Ann Chen. Pianist Lara Downes gives us Holes in the Sky, which features female composers’ original solo works and song transcriptions. Violinist Tasmin Little, on the eve of her retirement, also dedicates a disc to music by women. JoAnn Falletta – recently named Classical Woman of the Year by the radio program Performance Today – leads the Buffalo Philharmonic in Respighi’s Roman-themed tone poems.
Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker - Abbado Rediscovered: Schubert - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8
Oleg Akkuratov - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 23
Amici Voices - Bach: Cantatas Nos. 106 & 182
Emöke Baráth - Voglio Cantar
Martyn Brabbins, Rachel Nicholls, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Tippett: Symphonies 3 & 4, B flat
Anne-Catherine Bucher - Bach: Goldberg Variationen
Gautier Capuçon - Schumann
Riccardo Chailly - Messa per Rossini: A Requiem by Verdi and 12 Other Composers
Mei-Ann Chen, Chicago Sinfonietta - Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers
John Chest, Marcelo Amaral - Brahms: Die schöne Magelone
Andrea Chudak, Dario Salvi, Neue Preußische Philharmonie, Jakub Sawicki - Meyerbeer: Sacred Works
Christophe Coin, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla - C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
Contrapunctus; Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford; Owen Rees - Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Jeremy Denk - c.1300-c.2000
Dogma Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Gurewitsch - Mozart: Symphony KV 201; Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Lara Downes - Holes in the Sky
JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - Respighi: Roman Trilogy
Vladimir Fedoseyev, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
Patrick Gallois, Kazunori Seo - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Duets for Two Flutes
Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo - Busoni: Piano Concerto
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger - Gustav Mahler: Lieder
Lucie Horsch, Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Čičić - Baroque Journey
Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien - Vierne, Franck: Violin Sonatas; Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque
Paavo Järvi, Orchestre de Paris - Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7
Guy Johnston, Tom Poster - Themes and Variations
Kiril Karabits, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3; Grazhyna
Bomsori Kim, Rafał Blechacz - Debussy, Fauré, Szymanowski, Chopin
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Stephen Cleobury - Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge
Hannu Lintu - Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Violin Concerto; Photoptosis; Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony
Jan Lisiecki, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Mendelssohn
Tasmin Little, John Lenehan - Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach
Fabio Mechetti, Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra - Alberto Nepomuceno: Symphony in G minor; O Garatuja Prelude; Série Brasileira
Edgar Moreau - Offenbach, Gulda: Cello Concertos
Johannes Moser, Clark Rundell, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Bernard Rands: Chains Like the Sea
Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Under Stalin's Shadow: Shostakovich – Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7; Incidental Music to "King Lear"
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ewa Poblocka - Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I
Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Nocturnes Op. 55; Mazurkas Op. 56; Berceuse Op. 57; Sonata Op. 58
Martin Roscoe - Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 4
François-Xavier Roth, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Horizon 9
Steven Sloane, Bochum Symphony Orchestra - Joseph Marx: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - George Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American'; Symphony No. 6 'after Delacroix'; Etc.
Leoš Svárovský, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems
Jörgen van Rijen, Alain de Rudder - Kalevi Aho: Trombone Concerto; Trumpet Concerto
Various Artists - Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Iskandar Widjaja, Iraz Yildiz, Howard Griffiths - Fazil Say: 1001 Nights in the Harem Violin Concerto; Grand Bazaar; China Rhapsody
Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker - Abbado Rediscovered: Schubert - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8
Oleg Akkuratov - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 23
Amici Voices - Bach: Cantatas Nos. 106 & 182
Emöke Baráth - Voglio Cantar
Martyn Brabbins, Rachel Nicholls, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Tippett: Symphonies 3 & 4, B flat
Anne-Catherine Bucher - Bach: Goldberg Variationen
Gautier Capuçon - Schumann
Riccardo Chailly - Messa per Rossini: A Requiem by Verdi and 12 Other Composers
Mei-Ann Chen, Chicago Sinfonietta - Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers
John Chest, Marcelo Amaral - Brahms: Die schöne Magelone
Andrea Chudak, Dario Salvi, Neue Preußische Philharmonie, Jakub Sawicki - Meyerbeer: Sacred Works
Christophe Coin, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla - C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos
Contrapunctus; Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford; Owen Rees - Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
Diana Damrau, Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch - Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Jeremy Denk - c.1300-c.2000
Dogma Chamber Orchestra, Mikhail Gurewitsch - Mozart: Symphony KV 201; Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Lara Downes - Holes in the Sky
JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra - Respighi: Roman Trilogy
Vladimir Fedoseyev, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
Patrick Gallois, Kazunori Seo - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Duets for Two Flutes
Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo - Busoni: Piano Concerto
Barbara Hendricks, Love Derwinger - Gustav Mahler: Lieder
Lucie Horsch, Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Čičić - Baroque Journey
Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien - Vierne, Franck: Violin Sonatas; Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque
Paavo Järvi, Orchestre de Paris - Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7
Guy Johnston, Tom Poster - Themes and Variations
Kiril Karabits, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 3; Grazhyna
Bomsori Kim, Rafał Blechacz - Debussy, Fauré, Szymanowski, Chopin
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge; Stephen Cleobury - Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge
Hannu Lintu - Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Violin Concerto; Photoptosis; Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony
Jan Lisiecki, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Mendelssohn
Tasmin Little, John Lenehan - Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach
Fabio Mechetti, Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra - Alberto Nepomuceno: Symphony in G minor; O Garatuja Prelude; Série Brasileira
Edgar Moreau - Offenbach, Gulda: Cello Concertos
Johannes Moser, Clark Rundell, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Bernard Rands: Chains Like the Sea
Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra - Under Stalin's Shadow: Shostakovich – Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7; Incidental Music to "King Lear"
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ewa Poblocka - Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I
Maurizio Pollini - Chopin: Nocturnes Op. 55; Mazurkas Op. 56; Berceuse Op. 57; Sonata Op. 58
Martin Roscoe - Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 4
François-Xavier Roth, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Horizon 9
Steven Sloane, Bochum Symphony Orchestra - Joseph Marx: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - George Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American'; Symphony No. 6 'after Delacroix'; Etc.
Leoš Svárovský, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra - Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems
Jörgen van Rijen, Alain de Rudder - Kalevi Aho: Trombone Concerto; Trumpet Concerto
Various Artists - Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Iskandar Widjaja, Iraz Yildiz, Howard Griffiths - Fazil Say: 1001 Nights in the Harem Violin Concerto; Grand Bazaar; China Rhapsody