Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

Troubled Times – Music & espionage in Renaissance England is a phenomenal new Signum album from The Queen’s Six, a masterclass in vocal control and blend. The programme explores the inestimable choral riches produced by the likes of Taverner, Morley, Byrd and Ferrabosco in an England torn apart by the successive zealotry of monarchs from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. Performances are of the very highest order, with occasional accompaniment and interludes coming from The Rose Consort of Viols.

Marios Papadopoulos initiates a new compendium on Signum Classics with Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Op 31. This is the first mainstream release of these highly regarded recordings, previously available via Oxford Philomusica: ‘Everything has time to breathe and tell; this is supremely civilized Beethoven … the reverse of the hardened virtuoso he makes you love and re-consider music you thought you had always known’ (Bryce Morrison).

Roderick Williams has teamed up with the Carducci Quartet to record his own new arrangement of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, the familiar piano accompaniment intriguingly recast for the wide tonal palette of a string quartet. The result is a distinguished and insightful new version of this classic work. Also on Signum Classics we have Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 & Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki. These ebullient works are the latest in Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s series at the helm of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

A new release from historical piano label APR brings us a three-CD set comprising The complete KAPP recordings of Ann Schein. Recorded between 1958 and 1960, the repertoire includes concertos by Chopin and Rachmaninov (Nos 2 & 3 respectively, Sir Eugene Goossens conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra), plus some electrifying performances of solo Chopin and more.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

Troubled Times – Music & espionage in Renaissance England is a phenomenal new Signum album from The Queen’s Six, a masterclass in vocal control and blend. The programme explores the inestimable choral riches produced by the likes of Taverner, Morley, Byrd and Ferrabosco in an England torn apart by the successive zealotry of monarchs from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. Performances are of the very highest order, with occasional accompaniment and interludes coming from The Rose Consort of Viols.

Marios Papadopoulos initiates a new compendium on Signum Classics with Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Op 31. This is the first mainstream release of these highly regarded recordings, previously available via Oxford Philomusica: ‘Everything has time to breathe and tell; this is supremely civilized Beethoven … the reverse of the hardened virtuoso he makes you love and re-consider music you thought you had always known’ (Bryce Morrison).

Roderick Williams has teamed up with the Carducci Quartet to record his own new arrangement of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, the familiar piano accompaniment intriguingly recast for the wide tonal palette of a string quartet. The result is a distinguished and insightful new version of this classic work. Also on Signum Classics we have Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 & Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki. These ebullient works are the latest in Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s series at the helm of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

A new release from historical piano label APR brings us a three-CD set comprising The complete KAPP recordings of Ann Schein. Recorded between 1958 and 1960, the repertoire includes concertos by Chopin and Rachmaninov (Nos 2 & 3 respectively, Sir Eugene Goossens conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra), plus some electrifying performances of solo Chopin and more.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

Troubled Times – Music & espionage in Renaissance England is a phenomenal new Signum album from The Queen’s Six, a masterclass in vocal control and blend. The programme explores the inestimable choral riches produced by the likes of Taverner, Morley, Byrd and Ferrabosco in an England torn apart by the successive zealotry of monarchs from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I. Performances are of the very highest order, with occasional accompaniment and interludes coming from The Rose Consort of Viols.

Marios Papadopoulos initiates a new compendium on Signum Classics with Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Op 31. This is the first mainstream release of these highly regarded recordings, previously available via Oxford Philomusica: ‘Everything has time to breathe and tell; this is supremely civilized Beethoven … the reverse of the hardened virtuoso he makes you love and re-consider music you thought you had always known’ (Bryce Morrison).

Roderick Williams has teamed up with the Carducci Quartet to record his own new arrangement of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, the familiar piano accompaniment intriguingly recast for the wide tonal palette of a string quartet. The result is a distinguished and insightful new version of this classic work. Also on Signum Classics we have Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 & Suite from Moscow, Cheryomushki. These ebullient works are the latest in Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s series at the helm of the Philharmonia Orchestra.

A new release from historical piano label APR brings us a three-CD set comprising The complete KAPP recordings of Ann Schein. Recorded between 1958 and 1960, the repertoire includes concertos by Chopin and Rachmaninov (Nos 2 & 3 respectively, Sir Eugene Goossens conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra), plus some electrifying performances of solo Chopin and more.