June CD Roundup
Decca doesn’t appear to have made new recordings this month, but, based around its extensive catalogue of works by Britten, conducted by Britten, it has released the first ever complete survey of…
A view from Spain and May CD Roundup
I’ve just come back from a trip to southern Spain, visiting such wonderful places as the Mezquita at Córdoba, the Alhambra at Granada, Seville Cathedral, Ronda and even hopped over…
January CD Roundup
The Britten centenary is marked this month by a couple of new discs of his cello music. Around Britten on Signum Classics features cellist Matthew Barley and includes Britten’s Third Suite for Cello,…
November CD Roundup
If you like your music cerebral and challenging then you should check-out Richard Barrett’s bewitching new CD Dark Matter. It features the ensembles ELISION and CIKADA conducted by Christian Eggen with…
Fifty Shades of Grim. October CD Roundup.
I noticed with a sense of both amusement and nausea yesterday that EMI, a label that I used to follow avidly, has stooped to releasing Fifty Shades of Grey, The Classical Album.…
September CD Releases
Apart from the excellent Retorica disk reviewed in my last post, there are a number of other new recordings worth checking out this month. There are five releases on Naxos.…
July CD Releases
A quiet month. Only Naxos – as usual – has produced new albums of recent music. Three of these are in its American Classics series. There is a recording of…
CD Roundup
There were fewer new CDs this month than usual, so rather than a full review, here's a quick roundup. On Naxos there are new recordings of William Grant Still's Symphony No. 2…