This summer's landmark production of Smyth's neglected opera (centring on a Cornish community which survives by luring ships to a rocky doom) is now available on the Sussex festival's new subscription streaming-service.
World premiere recordings of works by Jörg Widmann, Lennox Berkeley and John Frederick Lampe, plus an outstanding Respighi recital from Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz.
Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Mysliveček violin concertos from Shizuka Ishikawa and Libor Pešek, Bach harpsichord concertos from Andrew Arthur and The Hanover Band, and the world premiere recording of John Luther Adams's *Houses of the Wind*.
The guitar-led jazz trio bring formless ambient and psychedelic blues rock sounds to their JazzSick Records debut, led by up-and-coming axeman Philipp Wisser.
Michael Ostryzyga has undertaken a completion of Mozart’s famous *Requiem* fragment in the style of Mozart, attempting to find solutions that the composer could have written in 1791. This new completion constitutes a valuable well-founded alternative to the traditional Süßmayr edition. Find out more.
This week's pick of new jazz releases includes the debut of young nu-jazz duo DOMi & JD BECK, two archival releases of MPS Records, and reissues from Marcus Miller.
July heavyweights include Vladimir Ashkenazy's complete solo recordings on Decca, Reinhard Goebel's complete recordings on Archiv Produktion, a celebration of Eugene Ormandy's five-year stint in Minneapolis, and the collected works of John Adams on Nonesuch.
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the August 2022 issue include London collective Kokoroko's debut album, ACT Music's Charles Mingus centenary concert, and Steve Tibbetts' *Hellbound Train* anthology.
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
The 2023 edition of Boosey & Hawkes's music diary; a biography of Minna Wagner; a reappraisal of twentieth-century music through the lens of ten figures who altered the course of music history; the story of the American national anthem; a lavishly-illustrated guide to opera; a biography of choreographer Bronislava Nijinska; and a celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of conductor Philippe Herreweghe.
We take a look at some of our favourite jazz releases from British independent label Barely Breaking Even, from their J Jazz Masterclass series to archival reissues and new music from current artists.
Francesco Corti continues his series of Bach harpsichord concerto recordings with an album of double concertos - including his own collaborative reconstruction with Francesco Zimei of a tantalising fragment.
Theatre and film music by Penderecki, Haydn from Trio Gaspard, Stravinsky from Vladimir Jurowski, and the complete symphonies of Danish composer Per Nørgård.
In the wake of its world premiere recording on Avie, the composer and tenor discuss the extraordinary song-cycle which Muhly composed for Phan in 2019, and reflect on the themes of immigration and identity which lie at the heart of the work.
The latest jazz releases include debut albums from London multi-instrumentalist DoomCannon, American-born, Prague-based vocalist Allison Wheeler, and the Swiss Jazz Ambassadors, as well as a few retrospectives and reissues.
Film-scores by Korngold, Arlen, Steiner and Waxman from Sinfonia of London, plus Hans Rott from Jakub Hrůša in Bamberg, Telemann from Alina Ibragimova, and operatic duets from Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.