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Duruflé's Requiem & Poulenc's Lenten Motets make another apt programme, the bittersweet poignancy of the Poulenc—so characteristic of its composer—providing the perfect foil to the mysticism and grandeur which pervade the Duruflé. This account of the Requiem, benefiting from the generous acoustic and splendid organ of Saint-Eustache in Paris, is the perfect showcase for Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.
The ongoing series dedicated to choice selections of our all-time favourite recordings—ones you might possibly have missed? This time: Robin Holloway's Gilded Goldbergs from The Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo (‘a remarkable achievement … rollicking, camp good fun’—The Sunday Times), Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos 1, 4 & 5 from Nikolai Demidenko and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (‘another feather in Hyperion's cap’—Hi-Fi News), and Beethoven Songs from Stephan Genz and Roger Vignoles (‘I have never heard these songs sung more beautifully. An instant classic’—Gramophone). If you don’t know them already, a track from each is included on our monthly sampler which is free to download.
Thomas Roseingrave's Eight Harpsichord Suites have been somewhat overshadowed by those of his great contemporary George Frideric Handel. But they can fully stand alone as a bold, original and genuinely outstanding collection of music. While some have been recorded before, this new album from Bridget Cunningham on Signum Classics is the first to present the complete set.
A new album on Signum Classics brings us a first instalment of Schumann in English. As with their earlier, and fascinating, Schubert albums, pianist Christopher Glynn, translator Jeremy Sams and singers Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Kathryn Rudge present old favourites in new light, here performing the Eichendorff Liederkreis ('Song cycle'), Dichterliebe ('A poet's love') and Frauenliebe und -leben ('A woman's life, a woman's love'). Desmond Earley and his versatile University College Dublin Choral Scholars have recorded Ireland you're my home: four ingenious arrangements fusing Gaelic folk with choral excellence and here with accompaniment from the Solstice Ensemble.
The Orchestral works of Dorothy Howell—symphonic poems, a ballet score and more—have languished in obscurity for the best part of a century. Lovingly recorded by Rebecca Miller and the BBC Concert Orchestra, this new album is a fully deserved revelation. Also for Signum, composer/producer and now pianist Joshua Spacht has recorded Chopin at midnight, a programme of favourites 're-imagined' to suit more contemporary—ephemeral?—listening habits.
Recorded in April 2023 for LSO Live, the London Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda present Prokofiev Symphony No 3, a work of apocalyptic intensity which was first performed in 1929, and the third instalment in these artists' current cycle.
An exciting new recording from LSO Live captures concert performances of Janáček's Káťa Kabanová as given by the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in January 2023. The all-star cast includes Amanda Majeski ('a truly great performance in the title role'—The Guardian), Magdalena Kožená and Katarina Dalayman, and the magic between conductor and orchestra is all one might expect in this repertoire.
Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, conclude a glorious cycle on the orchestra's own label with the release of Beethoven Symphony No 9, a distinguished quartet of soloists and The Washington Chorus at full strength ensuring that the choral finale is every bit an 'ode to joy'.