New and Future Releases
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What impresses above all in this recording is the deep inwardness of the playing. This is not one single performance; it's the distillation of a lifetime's performances of these seminal works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. Mozart: Sonatas For Fortepiano & Violin, Vol. 4
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
As early reviews pointed out, these sonatas are true democratic duos. One of the many delights here is the instinctive ease with which the players slip from protagonist to accompanist, and back... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 ‘Spring’, 9 ‘Kreutzer’ & 3
Alena Baeva (violin), Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Tempos never linger, contributing to a mesmerically shaded reading: vernal this Spring may be but the listener is ever aware of the likelihood of a sudden storm that blows away as swiftly as... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Davidsen’s soprano sounds fresh, gleaming and direct, her top-most notes silvery. She knows how to ensure nothing gets overblown – and how to get so close to the edge that the effect is thrilling,... —
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New. Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Andrea Nemecz (piano), Rose McLachlan (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bavouzet plays a modern Yamaha CFX, yet the rhetoric is unshowily Classical: pedalling kept lean, phrase-ends released, ornaments articulated like speech. Gábor Takács-Nagy draws the Manchester... —
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The insight and dedication of Pashchenko's accounts transcend conventional expectations, and her partnership with the musicians of Il Gardellino discloses a synergy rarely encountered in comparable... —
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New. Massenet: Songs With Orchestra – II
Julien Henric, Thomas Dolié (baritone), Hélène Guilmette, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Bertrand Dubos, Orchestre de l'Opéra Normandie Rouen, Pierre Dumoussaud
All four singers - Bouchard-Lesieur, Hélène Guilmette, Julien Henric and Thomas Dolié - walk a line between extrovert operatic singing and the emotional intimacy that makes Massenet so lovable. —
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New. Bach - Mozart - Britten: Concertos
Martin James Bartlett (piano), Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Howard Griffiths
Bartlett knows exactly what to do with the Bösendorfer's paintbox; hues occasionally seep but the rounded sound is masterfully captured. —
