Featured New Releases for
December 31, 2021

Restrained, highly detailed performance of one of classical music's great appeals to emotion.

— James Manheim

Lively performances of Haydn's three final quartets underscore their radical nature.

— James Manheim

Arresting reading of Mompou's Música callada catches the work's roots in mystic incantation.

— James Manheim

Mussorgsky songs and piano pieces inventively mixed and matched into a semi-dramatic program depicting the stages of a woman's life.

— James Manheim

Revival of works by a leader of the so-called "Indianist" movement surveys the development of his music.

— James Manheim

A large selection of live performances recorded with conductor Harnoncourt at the Styriarte festival in Graz, with many novel ideas.

— James Manheim

Exciting live recordings from the winner of the 2021 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, often showing that less is more.

— James Manheim

Crossover album of a sort, with pieces originating in rock, jazz, and various classical styles joined in a meditative whole.

— James Manheim

Highly cinematic ballet score nevertheless catches the modern resonances of the Frankenstein story.

— James Manheim

Unreleased collection of Classical-period dramatic arias shows Bartoli in fine voice.

— James Manheim