Featured New Releases for
January 3, 2020

Launching a series of Bartók's works, Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony offer the Suite No. 1 and Concerto for Orchestra.

— Blair Sanderson

A straight-ahead program of Russian favorites in which conductor Petrenko knows when to get out of the way.

— James Manheim

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a vigorous performance of Schubert's Ninth Symphony, "The Great C major."

— Blair Sanderson

Philippe Jaroussky's second self-selected anthology conveys the breadth of his work and contains new material.

— James Manheim

Chamber versions of Beethoven's symphonies, as arranged by Hummel, recorded by Uwe Grodd and the Gould Piano Trio for this Naxos series.

— Blair Sanderson

Virtuoso orchestral pieces that may be taken as abstract or as representative of Icelandic landscapes.

— James Manheim