Recent Classical Highlights

Recent Classical Highlights

By AllMusic Staff

Jul. 5, 2022


There are a few recordings among those we reviewed in June that evoke the changing of the seasons, appropriately enough as we headed from Spring into Summer in the northern hemisphere. Pablo Heras-Casado has just recorded all of Schumann's symphonies, of which the first is nicknamed "Spring." The title track of a disc of the music of William Grant Still is the pastoral Summerland for violin and orchestra. Albéniz's Iberia, performed by Nelson Goerner, paints a musical picture of the sunny peninsula and its culture. These are just a sampling of a much wider variety of releases we covered.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Vivaldi: 12 Concertos Op. 3 L'estro armonico; Bach: Keyboard Arrangements
Arabella String Quartet - Saint-Georges: Six Concertante Quartets
Arcadia Quartet - Weinberg, Vol. 2: String Quartets Nos. 1, 7, and 11
Paul Bateman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Oliver Davis: Air
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Opera in Musica: Carlo Monza Quartets
Herbert Blomstedt, Gewandhausorchester - Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4
Le Caravansérail, Emmanuelle de Negri, Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Bertrand Cuiller - Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Other Works
Riccardo Chailly, Filarmonica della Scala - Musa Italiana: Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mozart
Alice Coote, Julius Drake - Schubert: 21 Songs
Ana de la Vega, Paul Rivinius - My Paris
Mark Elder, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder, Lyn Fletcher - Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; Symphony No. 9; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; The Lark Ascending
Epiphoni Consort, Tim Reader - Precious Things: Choral Music by Bernard Hughes
Shiva Feshareki - Shiva Feshareki: Turning World
Fretwork - Thomas Lupo: Fantasia
Nelson Goerner - Albéniz: Iberia
Samuel Hasselhorn, Joseph Middleton - Schubert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe
Pablo Heras-Casado, Münchner Philharmoniker - Schumann: The Complete Symphonies
René Jacobs - J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
René Jacobs, Christian Immler, Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie - Weber: Der Freischütz
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet; Piano Trio; Piano Quintet
Jonas Kaufmann - The Tenor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Joonas Ahonen - Le Monde selon George Antheil
Kronos Quartet, Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Rinde Eckert - Jonathan Berger: Mỹ Lai
Dong Hyek Lim - Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.959 & 960
Lincoln Trio - Trios from Contemporary Chicago
Lorelei Ensemble, Beth Willer - James Kallembach: Antigone
Samuel Mariño, La Cetra, Andrea Marcon - Sopranista
Ariane Matiakh, Sinfonieorchester Basel - Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars' Symphony; Vers la voûte étoilées
Viktoria Mullova, Alasdair Beatson - Schubert
Música Ficta - Si a la Muerte imita el Sueño: Tonos Humanos de José Marín
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams - Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2; Selected Film Themes
Jakub Józef Orliński, Michał Biel - Farewells
Lisette Oropesa, René Barbera, Daniel Oren - Verdi: La Traviata
Steven Osborne - Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1; Moments Musicaux
Pavel Haas Quartet, Boris Giltburg, Pavel Nikl - Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34; String Quintet in G major, Op. 111
Dylan Perez - Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs
Violette Polchi, Sheva Tehoval, Pierre Dumoussaud - Jacques Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la Lune
Simon Rattle, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Chris Richards, London Symphony Orchestra - Nazareno: Bernstein, Stravinsky, Golijov
Jacob Reuven, Sinfonietta Leipzig, Omer Meir Wellber - Vivaldi & Piazzolla: The Mandolin Seasons
Mark Rohde, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin - Emilie Mayer: Overtures D major, D minor, C major; Faust Overture Op. 46; Sinfonie militair No. 3 C major
Steven Schick - Weather Systems I: A Hard Rain
Zina Schiff, Avlana Eisenberg, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - William Grant Still: Summerland
Florian Sempey, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski - Rameau: Nouvelle Symphonie
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - A Meditation: St John Henry Newman
Nicky Spence, Christopher Glynn - Schubert: The Fair Maid of the Mill
Cédric Tiberghien, Stéphane Degout, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth - Ravel: Concertos pour piano, Mélodies
Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber - Pop Songs
Alisa Weilerstein, Inon Barnatan - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, New York Philharmonic - A Gathering of Friends
John Wilson, Sinfonia of London - John Ireland: Orchestral Works
See Siang Wong, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Philipp von Steinaecker - Mozart Minore: Piano Concertos No. 2o K.466, No. 24 K.491, Adagio K.540
Xuefei Yang, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell - Magna Carta: The Complete Works for Guitar of John Brunning