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With Mozart's Violin Sonatas K305, 376 & 402 we have a second instalment in the ongoing series from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, every bit as wondrous as their first. Those hankering after something a bit more outside the Austro-German tradition should not miss Fin de siècle—Music for viola and piano. The composers may be largely unfamiliar, but this a life-enhancing recital courtesy of Lawrence Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips, who revel in these richly enjoyable works from early twentieth-century France.
There is a bumper crop of new releases on other labels this month and at the head of the list must come a wonderful new recording of the Duruflé Requiem & other choral works. It is performed by King's College Choir Cambridge, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and soloists Patricia Bardon and Ashley Riches. The legendary Stephen Cleobury conducts this latest album from the King's Cambridge own label which is newly available for download from Hyperion.
Tamsin Waley-Cohen has returned to the studio for Signum Classics to record Violin Concertos by John Adams & Roy Harris, two greats of the American repertoire ebulliently championed by Andrew Litton and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. A debut concerto album from rising star Alexandra Dariescu gives a welcome opportunity to revisit the rather more familiar Tchaikovksy Piano Concerto No 1 in the company of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Darrell Ang. The same orchestra has teamed up with conductor Paul Bateman and pianist Huw Watkins to inspire the golden violin of Kerenza Peacock through Oliver Davis Dance, the final album in his balletic trilogy.
Mozart's Zaide was left unfinished, the composer not even giving it a title. Ian Page and Classical Opera discover in the surviving numbers music of real worth; Allan Clayton and Sophie Bevan head up the cast in this typically innovative recording, again on Signum. Tenebrae and Nigel Short have recorded a new album entitled Music of the Spheres, a showcase of British choral music from the last hundred years, much of it little known.
New releases on LSO Live this month find the London Symphony Orchestra in varied repertoire: with Valery Gergiev they have recorded Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 & Balakirev Tamara, landmark works both. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts two Mendelssohn Symphonies, the precocious No 1 written when the composer was just fifteen, and the joyful—and perennially popular—'Italian' No 4.