New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-up - 26th May 2017
Piano highlights this week include Sunwook Kim playing both Brahms concertos with the Hallé, Shai Wosner plays impromptus by Chopin, Dvořák, Liszt and others and Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier playing Dvořák, Grieg and Brahms for piano four hands. Vocal highlights include the tenor Daniel Behle singing Schubert opera arias and the second volume of Fauré's songs on Signum Classics.
Hallé and Sir Mark Elder are reunited with Sunwook Kim in long-awaited studio recordings of repertoire with which Kim won the Leeds Piano Competition. Kim came to international recognition when he won the competition in 2006, aged just eighteen, becoming the youngest winner for forty years.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Dvořák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands
Jos van Immerseel (piano) & Claire Chevallier (piano)
Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier devote this programme to the dance, with the Hungarian Dances of Johannes Brahms and Dvořák's Slavonic Dances. The much more rarely played Norwegian Dances of Edvard Grieg and the Spanish Dances of Moritz Moszkowski complete this trip around Europe.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Eternal Stories: Quatuor Ebène & Michel Portal
Michel Portal (clarinet - bandonéon), Xavier Tribolet (keyboard) & Richard Hery (drum), Quatuor Ebène
Eternal Stories comprises completely new pieces and two new arrangements of classic Michel Portal numbers, alongside a late work by Piazzolla and astonishing contributions from members of Quatuor Ébène itself.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Six Schubert operas are represented on this disc, including the early Adrast written around the age of twenty, and Fierrabras, written five years before his death. Even today Schubert's operas remain the most unknown aspect of his work, and so this disc contains some very rare music indeed, most of which has never before been recorded.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
After his wonderfully quirky and highly praised Haydn & Ligeti album, Shai Wosner returns to solo piano repertoire for his next project. As always with this artist, there is something very different on offer - Impromptus by Chopin, Dvořák, Liszt, Gershwin, and Schubert rub shoulders with Beethoven's Fantasy, op.77.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
Fauré: The Complete Songs, Volume 2
Janis Kelly (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), John Chest (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Pianist Malcolm Martineau brings together some of the UK’s finest singers for the second release in a new series charting the complete songs of French composer Gabriel Fauré.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
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