Hyperion’s year gets off to an enticing start with Angela Hewitt – The Bach Recordings. This 27-CD set replaces an earlier, and rather less comprehensive, box which sold out many years ago. Included here are all ten double albums and all seven single albums recorded by Angela Hewitt from her debut on the label in 1994 through to the series’ triumphant conclusion in 2018.

Newly available from Signum Classics we have Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 3 & 9 in performances from Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, performances brought vividly to life on Gaudagni violin and a Walter & Sohn fortepiano from 1822. As Bezuidenhout convincingly argues in the accompanying booklet, tackling this music on instruments of Beethoven’s own day is no mere historical exercise, rather it brings to the fore the radical volatility and danger hard-wired into these ground-breaking compositions.

and A thousand charms—songs and interludes by Purcell, Campion and more. Here (also on Signum), the pellucid soprano of Grace Davidson soars effortlessly around Julian Perkins’s ever-inventive harpsichord.

Contrasting vocal releases this month bring us—from Allan Clayton and the Aurora Orchestra—Hans Zender’s Schubert Winterreise, this ‘composed interpretation’ winning widepread plaudits over the years for its thought-provoking and respectful treatment of a masterpiece,

Malcolm Binns – A 90th Birthday Tribute is a glorious new 4-CD box from APR—blistering concertos by Beethoven, Liszt, Prokofiev and Lyapunov (rare survivals from BBC broadcasts in the early 1960s), plus solo works by Rubinstein, Medtner and Alkan, and the complete Chopin Études. Malcolm Binns has been the source of so much material for the label in his capacity as a fanatical collector of the rarest of 78s (and indeed examples from his equally abundant foraging of photos and other memorabilia have also graced many APR and Hyperion booklets over the years), and so it is a particular pleasure to be reminded here of his own inimitable pianism.

Hyperion’s year gets off to an enticing start with Angela Hewitt – The Bach Recordings. This 27-CD set replaces an earlier, and rather less comprehensive, box which sold out many years ago. Included here are all ten double albums and all seven single albums recorded by Angela Hewitt from her debut on the label in 1994 through to the series’ triumphant conclusion in 2018.

Newly available from Signum Classics we have Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 3 & 9 in performances from Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, performances brought vividly to life on Gaudagni violin and a Walter & Sohn fortepiano from 1822. As Bezuidenhout convincingly argues in the accompanying booklet, tackling this music on instruments of Beethoven’s own day is no mere historical exercise, rather it brings to the fore the radical volatility and danger hard-wired into these ground-breaking compositions.

and A thousand charms—songs and interludes by Purcell, Campion and more. Here (also on Signum), the pellucid soprano of Grace Davidson soars effortlessly around Julian Perkins’s ever-inventive harpsichord.

Contrasting vocal releases this month bring us—from Allan Clayton and the Aurora Orchestra—Hans Zender’s Schubert Winterreise, this ‘composed interpretation’ winning widepread plaudits over the years for its thought-provoking and respectful treatment of a masterpiece,

Malcolm Binns – A 90th Birthday Tribute is a glorious new 4-CD box from APR—blistering concertos by Beethoven, Liszt, Prokofiev and Lyapunov (rare survivals from BBC broadcasts in the early 1960s), plus solo works by Rubinstein, Medtner and Alkan, and the complete Chopin Études. Malcolm Binns has been the source of so much material for the label in his capacity as a fanatical collector of the rarest of 78s (and indeed examples from his equally abundant foraging of photos and other memorabilia have also graced many APR and Hyperion booklets over the years), and so it is a particular pleasure to be reminded here of his own inimitable pianism.

Hyperion’s year gets off to an enticing start with Angela Hewitt – The Bach Recordings. This 27-CD set replaces an earlier, and rather less comprehensive, box which sold out many years ago. Included here are all ten double albums and all seven single albums recorded by Angela Hewitt from her debut on the label in 1994 through to the series’ triumphant conclusion in 2018.

Newly available from Signum Classics we have Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos 3 & 9 in performances from Viktoria Mullova and Kristian Bezuidenhout, performances brought vividly to life on Gaudagni violin and a Walter & Sohn fortepiano from 1822. As Bezuidenhout convincingly argues in the accompanying booklet, tackling this music on instruments of Beethoven’s own day is no mere historical exercise, rather it brings to the fore the radical volatility and danger hard-wired into these ground-breaking compositions.

and A thousand charms—songs and interludes by Purcell, Campion and more. Here (also on Signum), the pellucid soprano of Grace Davidson soars effortlessly around Julian Perkins’s ever-inventive harpsichord.

Contrasting vocal releases this month bring us—from Allan Clayton and the Aurora Orchestra—Hans Zender’s Schubert Winterreise, this ‘composed interpretation’ winning widepread plaudits over the years for its thought-provoking and respectful treatment of a masterpiece,

Malcolm Binns – A 90th Birthday Tribute is a glorious new 4-CD box from APR—blistering concertos by Beethoven, Liszt, Prokofiev and Lyapunov (rare survivals from BBC broadcasts in the early 1960s), plus solo works by Rubinstein, Medtner and Alkan, and the complete Chopin Études. Malcolm Binns has been the source of so much material for the label in his capacity as a fanatical collector of the rarest of 78s (and indeed examples from his equally abundant foraging of photos and other memorabilia have also graced many APR and Hyperion booklets over the years), and so it is a particular pleasure to be reminded here of his own inimitable pianism.