Aug. 31, 2021
Musical styles blended in several of this month's new releases. There were new recordings of the jazzy music of Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin by pianists Yeol Eum Son and Frank Dupree. Marin Alsop conducted highlights from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, and more Gershwin was found on The Sound of Black and White by Raffi Besalyan. There was also violinist Karen Gomyo performing Piazzolla. If you prefer more traditional classical, there were plenty of other albums from which to choose, including orchestral songs by Wagner and Mahler sung by Anja Harteros, Bach's Orchestral Suites by Concerto Copenhagen, and Haydn's Seven Last words of Christ by Quatuor Debussy (pictured above).
Joonas Ahonen - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 1; Bernhard Gander: Peter Parker
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Beethoven: Hammerklavier
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin; Bernhard Forck, Anett Fritsch, Sunhae Im - Haydn: L'Isola Disabitata
Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico - Haydn 2032, No. 10: Les Heures du Jour
Apollo Chamber Players - With Malice Toward None
Kit Armstrong - William Byrd, John Bull: The Visionaries of Piano Music
Sonya Bach - Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2; Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 4, 5 & 6; Moments Musicaux Op. 16/1-6
Christian Baldini - Varèse: Amériques; Ligeti: Violin Concerto; Lutoslawski: Chain 2; Baldini: Elapsing Twilights Shades
Emmanuele Baldini, Pablo Rossi - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas
Maya Beiser - Maya Beiser x Philip Glass
Nicola Benedetti - Baroque
Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel - Brahms: Sonatas & Liebeslieder for Cello and Piano
Raffi Besalyan - The Sound of Black & White
Angel Blue, Lester Lynch, Marin Alsop - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess Highlights
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Overtures - Original Versions
Richard Croft, Rachelle Durkin, Dante Anzolini - Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Thomas Dausgaard, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 - Original 1873 Version
Lise Davidsen, Christian Elsner, Marek Janowski - Beethoven: Fidelio
Patrick Davin, Henri Demarquette, Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra - Léon Boëllmann: Symphonie en fa majeur; Variations symphoniques; Quatre Pièces brèves
Lise de la Salle - When Do We Dance?
Emmanuel Despax, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton, Miho Kawashima - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; 16 Waltzes
Peter Donohoe - Busoni: Elegien; Toccata; Sonatina super Carmen; Toccata, Adagio and Fugue
Barry Douglas - Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol. 3
Frank Dupree, Rosanne Philippens, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Case Scaglione - Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 4; Double Concerto; Chamber Symphony
Ensemble Cristofori, Arthur Schoonderwoerd - Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Eroica
Laurence Equilbey, Insula Orchestra - Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 & 3
Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives
Evelyn Glennie, Blair McMillen, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller - Joan Tower: Strike Zones; Small; Still/Rapids; Ivory and Ebony
Karen Gomyo - A Piazzolla Trilogy
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - The British Project: Elgar, Britten, Walton, Vaughan Williams
Mak Grgic - MAK/Bach
Ilya Gringolts - Ciaccona: Bach, Gerhard, Holliger, Pauset
Anja Harteros, Münchner Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev - Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder; Mahler: Rückert Lieder
Angela Hewitt - Love Songs
Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love: Mahler, Ives, Grime
Les inAttendus - Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge; Richard Pinel, Britten Sinfonia - Grayston Ives: Requiem
Vladimir Jurowski, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Isata Kanneh-Mason - Summertime
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, William Christie - Générations: Senaillé, LeClair - Sonates pour violon et clavecin
Viviana Lasaracina - Enrique Granados: Goyescas, Op. 11
Emmanuel Lawler, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Andrew Penny - Sullivan: Incidental Music - The Merchant of Venice; Henry VIII; Etc.
Linos Piano Trio - Stolen Music
Brad Mehldau, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Variations on a Melancholy Theme
Juanjo Mena, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 6
Garrick Ohlsson - Brahms: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Rhapsodies Op. 79
Emmanuel Pahud - Mozart & Flute in Paris
Sueye Park - Journey Through a Century
PaTRAM Institute Male Choir - More Honourable Than the Cherubim
Javier Perianes - Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 2 "Funeral" & No. 3; Mazurkas Op. 63
Laurence Perkins - Voyage of a Sea-God
Alain Planès - Frédéric Chopin: Complete Nocturnes
Quatuor Debussy, Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words; Dominique Vellard: Les sept dernières paroles
Anita Rachvelishvili - Élégie
Choir of Royal Holloway, London Mozart Players, Rupert Gough - As We Are Changed: Oratorio by Carson Cooman & Euan Tait
Silkroad Ensemble - Osvaldo Golijov: Falling Out of Time
Sitkovetsky Trio - Ravel & Saint-Saëns: Piano Trios
Yeol Eum Son - Kapustin
Marek Štilec, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra - Paul Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Valencia Baryton Project - Haydn: Baryton Trios - Treasures from the Esterháza Palace
Various Artists - The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4
Various Artists - Nino Rota: Chamber Music
Michael Waldrop - Time Frames
Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding, Igor Levit - Sommernachts Konzert 2021
Roderick Williams, Andrew West - Birdsong: Lieder by Brahms & Schumann, Four Songs from Hafez by Sally Beamish
Long Yu, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - Gustav Mahler, Xiaogang Ye: The Song of the Earth
Krystian Zimerman, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos