Special Reports
Fall Recordings: A Somewhat Incomplete (but Still Pretty Good) List: October 2013
| OCTOBER | ||
| BIS | Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin | Menahem Pressler (piano) |
| Mozart | Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Martin Fröst, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Janine Jansen (violin) | |
| Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 | Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg | |
| Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge | Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen | |
| Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 | Emperor Quartet | |
| De Profundis | Orphei Drängar, Cecilia Rydinger Alin, Elin Rombo (soprano), Andrew Canning (organ) | |
| Handel: Water Music | Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss | |
| BRIDGE | Franz Liszt, Vol. 2; Mephisto Waltz, Funérailles and other works | Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
| Mauro Giuliani, Vol. 2 | David Starobin, guitar, with Inon Barnatan, piano, Amalia Hall, violin | |
| Carl Maria Von Weber: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra | Alex Fiterstein, clarinet; San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Martin West | |
| CHANDOS | Holst: First Choral Symphony, Op. 41, The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18 | BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Susan Gritton (soprano) |
| Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake | Bergen Philharmonic, Neeme Järvi, James Ehnes (violin) | |
| Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major; Copland: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Barber: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian, Xiayin Wang (piano) | |
| D’Indy, Krenek, Schulhoff: Concertos in Concerto-grosso Style | Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute), Christoph Koncz (violin), Roger Nagy (cello), Maria Prinz (piano) | |
| York Bowen, Arnold Bax: British Cello Sonatas, Vol. 2 | Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano) | |
| Liszt: Opera Transcriptions | Louis Lortie (piano) | |
| CORO | Bach: Lutheran Masses | The Sixteen, Harry Christophers |
| Joy to the World | The Sixteen, Harry Christophers | |
| DECCA | The Violin | Nicola Benedetti (violin) |
| Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt | Valentina Lisitsa (piano) | |
| Brahms: Violin Concerto | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly, Leonidas Kavakos (violin) | |
| Britten: The Performer. Complete Decca Recordings | ||
| Joseph Calleja: Amore | BBC Concert Orchestra, Steven Mercurio | |
| Pavarotti: 50 Greatest Tracks | Luciano Pavarotti | |
| Verdi: Simon Boccanegra | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Massimo Zanetti, Opolais, Calleja, Hampson, Colombara, Pisaroni | |
| Brahms: The Symphonies | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly | |
| DEUTSCHE GRAMOPHONE | Wagner: The Collector’s Edition | Various artists |
| Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Vienna Philharmonc Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Hélène Grimaud (piano) | |
| Chopin: Études | Jan Lisiecki (piano) | |
| Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 | Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel, Yuja Wang | |
| The Wigmore Hall Recital | Maria João Pires (piano), António Meneses (cello) | |
| Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 7, 14, 22 | Maurizio Pollini (piano) | |
| Miloš Karadaglic: Spanish Romance | Miloš Karadaglic (guitar) | |
| Great Verdi Recordings from Caruso to Pavarotti: Grandioso | Various artists | |
| Anoushka Shankar: Traces of You | Anoushka Shankar (sitar) | |
| In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores | Hilary Hahn (violin), Cory Smythe (piano | |
| ERATO | Songs from Vienna, Broadway and Hollywood (including a duet with Rolando Villazón): Diana Damrau—Forever | Diana Damrau (soprano) |
| Saint-Saëns: Concertos, La Muse et le Poète | Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) | |
| Alexandre Tharaud: Autograph (encores) | Alexandre Tharaud, (piano) | |
| Natalie Dessay Sings Michel Legrand: Entre elle et lui | Natalie Dessay (soprano) | |
| HARMONIA MUNDI | Eisler: Ernste Gesänge, Lieder | Matthias Goerne, (baritone), Thomas Larcher (piano), Ensemble Resonanz |
| Bach: Matthäus—Passion (2 SACD + 1 DVD) | Werner Güra, Johannes Weisser, Sunhae Im, Bernarda Fink, Topi Lehtipuu, Konstantin Wolff, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs | |
| Mozart: Clarinet Quintet, String Quartet K.421 | Arcanto Quartett, Jörg Widmann (clarinet) | |
| Christmas! Noël ! Weihnachten! | RIAS-Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann | |
| Tragédie (DVD + CD bonus) | Compagnie Olivier Dubois; Original music by François Caffenne | |
| Ellington/Strayhorn/Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suites | Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman | |
| Veni Emmanuel • Music for Advent | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross | |
| MUSIQUE D'ABORD | Carols from the Old and New Worlds, Vol.1 | Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier |
| OPERA BAROQUE | ITALY: Vecchi, Banchieri: Comédie madrigalesque & madrigaux florentins (1 CD); Monteverdi: L’Orfeo (1 DVD); Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea (3 CDs); Cavalli: La Calisto (3 CDs); Scarlatti: Griselda (3 CDs) | Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs, et al. |
| FRANCE: Lully: Atys (3 CDs); Charpentier: Médée (3 CDs); Charpentier: Le Malade imaginaire (1 CD); Campra: Idoménée (3 CDs); Rameau: Les Indes galantes (3 CDs) | Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, et al. | |
| ENGLAND: Blow: Venus And Adonis (1 CD); Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (1 CD); Handel: Rinaldo (3 CDs); Handel: Flavio (2 CDs); Handel: Giulio Cesare (2 DVDs) | René Jacobs, Andreas Scholl, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, et al. | |
| HYPERION | GERMANY: Ouvertüren • Opera Overtures (1 CD); Keiser: Croesus (3 CDs); Telemann: Orpheus (2 CDs); Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (3 CDs) | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, et al. |
| Dvorák: Cello Concerto | Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, Steven Isserlis (cello) | |
| Anton Arensky & Sergey Taneyev: Piano Quintets | Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet | |
| Frank Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet & Sonatas | The Nash Ensemble | |
| Franck: Symphonic Organ Works | Simon Johnson (organ) | |
| Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit | The Orlando Consort | |
| Poulenc: The Complete Songs | Various soloists, Graham Johnson (piano) | |
| Handel: Ottone | The King’s Consort, Robert King (conductor) | |
| Byrd: Consort Songs | Robin Blaze (countertenor), Concordia | |
| Korngold: String Sextet; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht | The Raphael Ensemble | |
| Poulenc: Mass & Motets | Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O’Donnell | |
| HOMOCHORD | Walter Gieseking: The Complete Homocord Recordings and other rarities | Walter Gieseking (piano) |
| NAXOS | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko |
| Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (CD + BluRay audio) | São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop | |
| Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Monteverdi, Shostakovich, Holst, Quilter, Rubinstein, Dvorák, Lloyd Webber, Schumann, Pergolesi, Hahn, Rachmaninov, Purcell, Nevin, Barnby, Pärt: A Tale of Two Cellos | Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, John Lenehan, Catrin Finch, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden | |
| David Briggs, Jeremy Filsell: Choral Music | Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse | |
| Corigliano: Conjurer/Vocalise | Evelyn Glennie, Hila Plitmann, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Allen Miller | |
| Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1; Rihm: Gesungene | Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Edo de Waart, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Zoltán Peskó, Jaap van Zweden (violin) | |
| John Knowles Paine: Symphony No. 1 | Ulster Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta | |
| Sarasate: Music for Violin & Orch Vol. 4 | Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, Tianwa Yang (violin) | |
| Hindemith: Complete Piano Concertos | Yale Symphony Orchestra, Toshiyuki Shimada, Idil Biret (piano) | |
| Peteris Vasks: Flute Concerto | Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois, Michael Faust (flute), Sheila Arnold (piano) | |
| Alfredo Casella: Triple Concerto. Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Concerto Dell’albatro | Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Damian Iorio, Emanuela Piemonti (piano), Paolo Ghidoni (violin), Pietro Bosna (cello) | |
| Franz Anton Hoffmeister: Flute Concertos Vol. 2 | Prague Chamber Orchestra, Bruno Meier (flute) | |
| Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 | Kunsbacka Trio, Philip Dukes (piano) | |
| Miklós Rósza: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 | Tippett Quartet | |
| Richard Danielpour: Darkness in The Ancient Valley | Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero, Hila Plitmann, Angela Brown (soloists) | |
| Pfitzner: Complete Lieder Vol. 1 | Britta Stallmeister,(soprano) Klaus Simon (piano) | |
| Scarlatti, Diabelli, Lennox Berkeley, Joaquín Malats, Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Jesús Manuel López | Kyuhee Park (guitar) | |
| Heinrich Scheidemann: Organ Works Vol. 7 | Julia Brown (organ) | |
| OPUS ARTE | Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets. Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets | Francesco Meli (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano) |
| SDG RECORDS | Bach: Complete Cantatas | The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists, Edward Gardner |
| SIGNUM CLASSICS | Gabrieli Consort: Incarnation | Trebles of Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, Paul McCreesh |
| The King’s Singers: Great American Songbook | The King’s Singers | |
| The Complete Songs of Poulenc, Vol. 4 | John Mark Ainsley, William Dazele, Sarah Fox, Magdalena Molendowska, Ann Murray, Thomas Oliemans, Malcolm Martineau | |
| Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots | Classical Opera Company, Ian Page | |
| SONY CLASSICAL | Mahler: Orchestral Songs | Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano, Christian Gerhaher (baritone) |
| Arabesque | Olga Peretyatko (soprano) | |
| Fritz Reiner: The Complete RCA Recordings | Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner | |
| Joshua Bell: Musical Gifts | Joshua Bell (violin), Chick Corea, Straight No Chaser, Alison Krauss, Placido Domingo, Gloria Estefan, Branford Marsalis | |
| Julian Bream: The Complete Album Collection | Julian Bream | |
| Ave Maria | Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) | |
| Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Lang Lang (piano) | |
| Il Progetto: Cello Concertos by Vivaldi, Fortunato Chelleri, Giovanni B. Platti, Andrea Teodoro Zani | Cappella Gabetta, Sol Gabetta (cello) | |
| WARNER CLASSICS | Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. | Tapei Symphony Orchestra, Wildner, Alexandre da Costa (violin) |
| Britten: War Requiem | Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, Anna Netrebko (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone) | |
| Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1, Prince Rostislav | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko | |
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