Classical Highlights for August 2023


The critiques from this month show the prowess of a number of up-and-coming soloists. Pianist Su Yeon Kim (pictured) issued a beautiful debut on the Steinway & Sons label with a recital of music by Mozart and Yunchan Lim’s Gold Medal efficiency from the 2022 Van Cliburn Competitors delivers good performances of Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante. Fashionable veterans made an impression as properly, as Hilary Hahn tackled Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, Op. 27, and Kenneth Hamilton launched the second quantity in his Liszt survey. These fascinated about much less intimate music can even discover a number of inviting releases, from a historic recording of Wagner’s Parsifal to the juxtaposition of Renaissance music with that of the minimalist and post-minimalist colleges on What Stays by the Dudok Quartet.

August Classical

Aizuri Quartet – Earthdrawn Skies

Diana Baroni, Ronald Martin Alonso, Rafael Guel Frias – Mujeres

Ashley Bathgate – 8-Observe

Noah Bendix-Balgley, Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma Metropolis Philharmonic – Jonathan Leshnoff: Elegy; Violin Concerto No. 2; Of Thee I Sing

Maja Bogdanovic, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Bojan Sudjic – Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1; Édouard Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor

Richard Boothby, Asako Morikawa – Music to Hear…: Alfonso Ferrabosco – Music for lyra viol from 1609

Elise Caluwaerts, Marianna Shirinyan – Alma: Meine Seele – Full Songs of Alma Mahler

Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss – Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance

Capella Itineris – Daniel Speer: Ein vierfaches musicalisches Kleeblatt

Bojan Čičić – Bach: Partitas & Sonatas BWV 1001-1006

Constellation Males’s Ensemble – Man Up / Man Down

John-Henry Crawford, Victor Santiago Asuncion – Voice of Rachmaninoff

Thomas Dausgaard, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner Symphony 4, second model 1878/80

Steven Devine, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – J.S. Bach: Harpsicord Concertos BWV 1052, 1054, 1055 & 1059

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – What Stays: Roukens, Reich, Messiaen, Perotin, Machaut, Gesualdo

Escher String Quartet, Colin Currie – Leos Janácek: Kreutzer Sonata; Intimate Letters; Pavel Haas: From the Monkey Mountains

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Risto Joost – Tonu Korvits: The Sound of Wings

Anna Fedorova, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Modestas Pitrenas – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3; Youth Symphony

Mao Fujita – Mozart: The Full Piano Sonatas

Manon Galy, Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan – Nuits parisiennes

David Grimal – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas

David Grimal, Itamar Golan – Poulenc, Stravinsky, Prokofiev

Hilary Hahn – Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo Op. 27

Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 7

Kenneth Hamilton – Kenneth Hamilton performs Liszt, Vol. 2: Salon and Stage

Benjamin Hulett, Kate Royal, Roderick Williams, Neil Ferris, Metropolis of London Sinfonia, The Wimbledon Choral Society – Cecilia McDowell: Da Vinci Requiem; 70 Levels Under Zero

Julia Igonina, Maxim Emelyanychev – Jazz: Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen

iSing Silicon Valley, Cheryl Ann Fulton, Estelí Gomez – Love & Mild

Marek Janowski, Freddie De Tommaso, Lester Lynch, Saioa Hernandez – Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Paavo Järvi, Estonian Pageant Orchestra – Tubin: Kratt; Bacewicz, Lutoslawski

Karl Jenkins – One World

Martin Jones – Piano Music of Francisco Mignone

François Joubert-Caillet, L’Achéron – Marin Marais: Cinquième livre de pièces de viole

Jacob Kellermann, Viviane Hagner, Christian Karlsen – Toru Takemitsu: Spectral Canticle

Alexis Kossenko, Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie – Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 “Italian”; Symphony No. 5 “Reformatioin”

Kerson Leong, Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Britten, Bruch: Violin Concertos

Christian Li – Discovering Mendelssohn

Yunchan Lim – Yunchan Lim, Dwell from the Cliburn: Liszt – Transcendental Etudes

Meccore String Quartet, Jan Jakub Bokun – Penderecki: String Quartets; Clarinet Quartet; String Trio

Martha Mödl, Ramon Vinay, Hans Knappertsbusch – Richard Wagner: Parsifal (Bayreuther Festspeile 1955)

Clancy Newman, Natalie Zhu – From Technique to Insanity: The American Sound

Gianandrea Noseda, Nationwide Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphonies 4 and 5

Notturna, Christopher Palameta – Calcutta 1789: À la croisée de l’Europe et de l’Inde

The Orlando Consort – Machaut: The Fount of Grace

Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge – Stimme der Liebe: Songs by Franz Schubert – Ian Partridge eighty fifth Birthday Tribute

Laurent Petitgirard, Hungarian Symphony Orchestra – Laurent Petitgirard: Si Yeou Ki (The Journey to the West)

Polish Chamber Choir, Jan Łukaszewski – Górecki: Church Songs, Op. 84

Markus Poschner, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony #4 (1888 Model)

Lahav Shani, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – Ligeti: Kammerkonzert & Different Works

James Sinclair, Orchestra New England – TITLE

Dmitry Sinkovsky, B’Rock – Handel: Water & Hearth

John Storgårds, Elizabeth Atherton, Peter Rose, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva

Gábor Takács-Nagy, Verbier Pageant Chamber Orchestra – The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey

Takács Quartet – Dvorák: String Quartet Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke

Trinity Faculty Choir, Cambridge; Stephen Layton – Anthems: Elgar, Wesley, Howells, Spicer, Gowers, MacMillan, Bednall, Pott

Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl – Grigory Frid: The Full Works for Violin and Piano

Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve – Graduel d’Aliénor de Bretagne

Adam Walker, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson – Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Moist Ink Massive Ensemble – Lacking Scenes

Wigmore Soloists – Septets: Beethoven, Berwald

Debbie Wiseman, Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Signature: Debbie Wiseman Dwell in Live performance

Anna Zassimova – Fryderyk Chopin: Ballades Nos. 2 & 4; Scherzo No. 4; Mazurkas & Waltzes

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