Recent Classical Highlights

In Pop music you often hear the term "cover song," meaning one artist performing a song by another artist and giving it their own spin. This has been going on for centuries, except that in Classical music, it's usually called an arrangement or transcription. For example, harpsichordist Christophe Rousset found the manuscript of a Madame Théobon that includes keyboard arrangements of airs and tunes from Lully operas. Magdalena Hoffmann proves Chopin waltzes and Field nocturnes sound as beautiful on the harp as they do on the piano. Closer to the idea of a cover song, Jacqui Dankworth and the Brodsky Quartet (pictured above) give us songs by Elvis Costello and Sting as well as some original ones.

Amy Andersson - Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu - Schubert: Winterreise
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma - Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5
Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon - Purcell: Royal Odes
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 10
Belcea Quartet, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Tabea Zimmermann - Brahms: String Sextets
Ian Bostridge - Tormento d'Amore
David Briggs, Rupert Marshall-Luck - Vaughan Williams: Transcriptions from Truro
Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble, George Vosburgh - Richard Strauss: The Happy Workshop; Serenade Op. 7
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann, Joshua Ryan - Vaughan Williams: Earth's Wide Bounds
Claremont Trio - Queen of Hearts
Concerto Scirocco - Music for the Eyes: Masques and Fancies
Jacqui Dankworth, Brodsky Quartet - Rocking Horse Road
Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen - Bach: Gott soll allein mein Herze haben; Geist und Seele wird verwirret; Buxtehude: Klag-Lied
Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi - Mozart: Violin Sonatas KV 301, KV 303, KV 305, & KV 454
David Deveau - Schubert: Sonatas D 959 & D 960
Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev - Eden
Doric String Quartet, Timothy Ridout - Mendelssohn: The String Quintets
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists - Bach: St. John Passion
Jean-Paul Gasparian - Rachmaninoff
Cristina Gómez Godoy, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim - Mozart, Strauss: Oboe Concertos
Michael Halász, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra - Vanhal: Symphonies, Vol. 5
Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 106 'Hammerklavier', Op. 111
Magdalena Hoffmann - Nightscapes for Harp
Fenella Humphreys, Joseph Tong - Jean Sibelius: Works for Violin & Piano
Peter Jablonski - Peter Jablonski plays Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Works
Gidon Kremer - Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sonatas for Violin Solo
Theotime Langlois de Swarte, Les Ombres - Violin Concertos: Leclair, Vivaldi, Locatelli
Elisabeth Leonskaja - Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Jan Lisiecki - Night Music
Valentina Lisitsa - 1908
Reginald Mobley, Agave Baroque - American Originals: A New World, A New Canon
Cyrielle Ndjiki, Kaoli Ono - Muses éternelles
Andris Nelsons, Gewandhaus Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude & Liebestod
Hervé Niquet, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie - Saint-Saëns: Phryné
Rebeca Omordia - African Pianism
Modestas Pitrenas, Deutsches Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Ernst von Dohnányi: Concertos; Variations on a Nursery Song
Hila Plitmann, Sangeeta Kaur, Danaë Vlasse - Danaë Xanthe Vlasse: Mythologies
Ivo Pogorelich - Chopin
Sondra Radvanovsky - Donizetti: The Three Queens
Jean Rondeau - Bach: Goldberg Variations
Christophe Rousset - Le Manuscrit de Madame Théobon: Lully & Others
Sandbox Percussion - Seven Pillars
Nadine Sierra, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Frizza - Made for Opera
Skylark - It's a Long Way
John Storgårds, Lapland Chamber Orchestra- Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee; 10 Canons for 9 Instruments
Klaus Tennstedt, Jessye Norman, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Strauss: Five Songs; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Salome (excerpts)
Francesco Tristano - On Early Music
Laura van der Heijden, Jâms Coleman - Pohádka: Tales from Prague to Budapest
Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell, Peter Holder - Dove, Weir, Martin
Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Masaaki Suzuki - Nicolaus Bruhns: Cantatas and Organ Works, Vol. 1