The reviews from this month display the prowess of several up-and-coming soloists. Pianist Su Yeon Kim (pictured) issued a wonderful debut on the Steinway & Sons label with a recital of music by Mozart and Yunchan Lim’s Gold Medal performance from the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition delivers brilliant performances of Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante. Popular veterans made an impact as well, as Hilary Hahn tackled Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas, Op. 27, and Kenneth Hamilton released the second volume in his Liszt survey. Those interested in less intimate music will also find several inviting releases, from a historical recording of Wagner’s Parsifal to the juxtaposition of Renaissance music with that of the minimalist and post-minimalist schools on What Remains by the Dudok Quartet.
Aizuri Quartet – Earthdrawn Skies
Diana Baroni, Ronald Martin Alonso, Rafael Guel Frias – Mujeres
Ashley Bathgate – 8-Track
Noah Bendix-Balgley, Canterbury Voices, Oklahoma City 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 – Complete 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 Men’s Ensemble – Man Up / Man Down
John-Henry Crawford, Victor Santiago Asuncion – Voice of Rachmaninoff
Thomas Dausgaard, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner Symphony 4, second version 1878/80
Steven Devine, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – J.S. Bach: Harpsicord Concertos BWV 1052, 1054, 1055 & 1059
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – What Remains: 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 Complete 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 plays Liszt, Vol. 2: Salon and Stage
Benjamin Hulett, Kate Royal, Roderick Williams, Neil Ferris, City of London Sinfonia, The Wimbledon Choral Society – Cecilia McDowell: Da Vinci Requiem; 70 Degrees Below Zero
Julia Igonina, Maxim Emelyanychev – Jazz: Akhunov, Poulenc, Messiaen
iSing Silicon Valley, Cheryl Ann Fulton, Estelí Gomez – Love & Light
Marek Janowski, Freddie De Tommaso, Lester Lynch, Saioa Hernandez – Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Paavo Järvi, Estonian Festival 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, Live 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 Method to Madness: The American Sound
Gianandrea Noseda, National 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 85th 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 Version)
Lahav Shani, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – Ligeti: Kammerkonzert & Other Works
James Sinclair, Orchestra New England – TITLE
Dmitry Sinkovsky, B’Rock – Handel: Water & Fire
John Storgårds, Elizabeth Atherton, Peter Rose, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva
Gábor Takács-Nagy, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra – The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey
Takács Quartet – Dvorák: String Quartet Op. 106; Coleridge-Taylor: Fantasiestücke
Trinity College Choir, Cambridge; Stephen Layton – Anthems: Elgar, Wesley, Howells, Spicer, Gowers, MacMillan, Bednall, Pott
Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl – Grigory Frid: The Complete 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
Wet Ink Large Ensemble – Missing Scenes
Wigmore Soloists – Septets: Beethoven, Berwald
Debbie Wiseman, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra – Signature: Debbie Wiseman Live in Concert
Anna Zassimova – Fryderyk Chopin: Ballades Nos. 2 & 4; Scherzo No. 4; Mazurkas & Waltzes
