The releases that almost all impressed our reviewers this month cowl the gamut of genres. The youngest winner thus far of the Van Cliburn Competitors, Yunchan Lim, offers Chopin’s etudes a youthful freshness in his Decca debut recording. An all-star solid is featured in a stay recording from the debut run of the opera The Hours, based mostly on the novel and movie of the identical identify, composed by Kevin Places (pictured). Trio Rigamonti makes the case for Clara Schumann’s and Rebecca Clarke’s piano trios as commonplace repertoire. Yannick Nézet-Séguin has an extended historical past with L’orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, they usually ship sturdy leads to Symphonies No. 2 and 5 by Jean Sibelius. A lot good music, so many good performances.
Kate Aldrich, Julien Dran, Kazuki Yamada – Camille Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Alkemie – Like to My Liking
Marin Alsop, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – John Adams: Metropolis Noir; Fearful Symmetries; Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew, Benjamin Alard – J.S. Bach: A Life in Music, Vol. 1 – Early Cantatas
Avalon String Quartet – Worth, Sowerby: Music for String Quartet
Bethlehem Bach Choir, Christopher Jackson – Mendelssohn-Bach: Matthäus-Ardour
Fabio Biondi – Roman: Assaggi per violino solo
Sebastian Bohren, Münchener Kammerorchester, Sergej Bolkhovets – In Night Gentle: Vasks, Schubert
Mario Brunello – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: The 4 Sonatas for Solo Cello
Philip Chiu – Voyages
Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Bartók: The Picket Prince (Ultimate Model); Divertimento; Romanian Folks Dances
Colin Davis, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Eugenio Della Chiara – Cassadó, Mompou: Full Solo Guitar Works
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester – Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos
Feico Deutekom – Glass: Etudes for Piano
Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Kevin Places: The Hours
I Disinvolti, Massimo Lombardi – Vulnerasti cor meum: Motets from the Tune of Songs
Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch – Eternity
Ensemble Molière – The King’s Playlist
JoAnn Falletta. Bella Hristova. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Echoes of Japanese Europe
Luka Faulisi – Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons
Isabelle Faust, Jakub Hrůša, Alexander Melnikov, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto; Chamber Works
Iván Fischer, Budapest Pageant Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’; Coriolan Overture
Elīna Garanča – When Evening Falls
Véronique Gens, Münchner Runfunkorchester, Hervé Niquet – Paysage
Giuseppe Grazioli, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano – Franco Alfano: Suite romantica; Una danza
Hauser – Traditional II
Tine Factor Helseth, tenThing Brass Ensemble – She Composes Like a Man
Eldbjørg Hemsing, Wu Wei, Andris Poga – Rolf Wallin: 5 Seasons; Whirld; Stride; Spirit
Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir – Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 3 – Pulcinella, Symphony in C, Requiem Canticles, and so forth.
Leonidas Kavakos, The Apollon Ensemble – Bach: Violin Concertos
Sergey Khachatryan – Ysaye: VI Sonatas
Ben Kim, Royal Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The First Vienna Concertos
Abner Landim, Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson – Guerra-Peixe: A Retirada da Laguna; Concertino; Museu da Inconfidência
Piers Lane – Russian Variations
Patrick Langot. Orchestre de Lutetia. Alejandro Sandler. Alexis Cardenas – Alas
Inkyoung Lee – Schubert: His Final Sonatas D959 & D960
El Leon de Oro, Peter Phillips – George de la Hèle: Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem
Yunchan Lim – Chopin: Études
Cristian Măcelaru, Orchestre Nationwide de France – Georges Enescu: Symphonies 1-3; Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
Nicholas McGegan, Cantata Collective – Bach: Mass in B Minor
Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli – Scarlatti: 12 Sonatas
Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr – Timo Andres: The Blind Banister
Dorothee Mields, G.A.P. Ensemble – J.S. Bach & D. Shostakovich: Salvation
Adrienn Miksch, János Bándi, Ferenc Szecsödi – Brahms: Hungarian Dances and the Hungarian Custom
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal – Sibelius 2 & 5
Nois – Sorts of Nois
Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
Simon Rattle, Elizabeth Watts, Alice Coote, London Symphony Orchestra – Britten: Spring Symphony; Sinfonia da Requiem; Younger Particular person’s Information to the Orchestra
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot – Heinrich Schütz: Da Pacem
François-Xavier Roth, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln – Bruckner 9
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera – Sorabji: Toccata Terza
Jordi Savall, Diego Fernández Magdaleno – Mirrors of Time
Golda Schultz, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Antonello Manacorda – Mozart, You Drive Me Loopy!
Gerard Schwarz, Kansas Metropolis Lyric Opera Refrain & Orchestra – Paul Moravec/Mark Campbell: The Shining
Lauren Scott – Sea of Stars
Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral – Stainer: The Crucifixion
Trio Rigamonti – Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke: Piano Trios
Ailish Tynan, Kathryn Rudge, Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn – Schumann in English, Vol. 1
Numerous Artists – Bruckner from the Archives, Vol. 1
Vox Luminis, Freiburger Barockorchester, Lionel Meunier – Himmelfahrt: Bach, Telemann
Adam Walker, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Nielsen: Flute Concerto; Symphony No. 3 “Sinfonia Espansiva”; Pan and Syrinx
John Wilson, Sinfonia of London – Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra; Enescu: Octet for String Orchestra; Ysaÿe: Harmonies du soir
WindSync – WindSync performs Miguel del Aguila: Music for Winds
Yundi – Mozart: The Sonata Undertaking – Salzburg
Cecilia Zilliacus, Kati Raitinen, Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson – Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works
