Classical Highlights for Could 2025

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Classical Highlights for Could 2025

This 12 months being the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Maurice Ravel‘s delivery, we’re seeing extra recordings of his music, comparable to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet‘s wonderful, new traversal of the solo piano works. But there are different noteworthy releases to listen to too, together with Prokofiev’s string quartets by the Quatuor Danel (pictured), who beforehand efficiently lined the Shostakovich cycle; the cohesive mixing of classical music and spirituals by harpist Ashley Jackson on Take Me to the Water; and Beatrice Rana‘s return to the music of Bach with 4 keyboard concertos.

May Classical Reviews
Could Classical Critiques

Esther Abrami – Ladies

Thomas Adès, London Philharmonic Orchestra – Thomas Adès: Luxurious Suite from Powder Her Face; 5 Spells from the Tempest; Inferno Suite

John Andrews, BBC Live performance Orchestra – Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works

Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen – Franz Liszt: By way of Crucis & Solo Piano Works

Arcadia Quartet – Weinberg, Vol. 5: String Quartets Nos 3, 9, and 14; Improvisation and Romance

Ariel Quartet – Beethoven: The Full String Quartets, Vol. 1

Bach Collegium San Diego, Ruben Valenzuela – A Sonic Youth

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Ravel: Full Works for Solo Piano

Bevan Household Consort- Attende Domine: Music for Lent & Passiontide

Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers – Michael Tippett: New 12 months

Martyn Brabbins, English Nationwide Opera Orchestra & Refrain – Havergal Mind: Agamemnon; Sinfonia tragica; Symphony No. 12

Eleonora Buratto, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Sesto Quatrini – Indomita

Sarah Cahill, Regina Myers – D. Riley Nicholson: UP

Costantino Catena, Giulio Arnofi, Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni – Antonio Salieri: Piano Concertos

David Childs, Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs – Virtuoso: Music for Euphonium and Brass Band

Dmytro Choni – Pilgrimage

Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra – Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3; Statements for Orchestra; Billy the Child Ballet Suite

The Crossing, Donald Nally – David Lang: Poor Hymnal

Lise Davidsen, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Gerald Finley, Edward Gardner – Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer

Matthew de Lacey Davidson – The Swish Ghost: Modern Piano Rags 1960-2021

Nathan Davis, Sylvia Milo – Earthworks

Dudok Quartet- Tchaikovsky: String Quartets, Vol. 2

James Ehnes, Canada’s Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra – J.S. Bach: The Full Violin Concertos

Malena Ernman, Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata – Terra Mater

Margaret Fingerhut – Ukraine: A Piano Portrait

Pierre Fouchenneret, I Giardini – Le Temps des Lilas

Zlatomir Fung – Fantasies

Daniel Grimwood – Schumann: Carnaval; Liszt: Sonat

Hyperion Trio – Christian Sinding: Piano Trios Opp. 23, 64 & 87; Six Items for Cello and Piano Op. 66

Yasunori Imamura – Bach: Cello Suites, Vol. 1 – Nos. 1, 4 and 5

Ashley Jackson – Take Me to the Water

Lura Johnson – The Artwork of Prelude and Fugue: J.S. Bach, Shostakovich

Carla Kihlstedt, Current Music – 26 Little Deaths

Yo-Yo Ma, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons – Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos

Malcolm Martineau- The Full Songs of Ravel

Anton Mejias – The Artwork of Reminiscence: Bach – Nicely-Tempered Claiver II; Lasser – Preludes

Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller – Michael Daugherty: Blue Electra; Final Dance on the Surf; To the New World

Monteverdi Choir, Jonathan Sells – Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets

Justin Murphy-Mancini – Organ Music in New England: Cultivating a Residing Custom

Thomas Newman – Of Mice and Males: Music from the Authentic Ballet

Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 ‘The 12 months 1905’

Kun-Woo Paik – Mozart: Piano Works 3

Current Music – Raven Chacon: Unvoiced Mass

Quatuor Danel – Prokofiev: String Quartets

Quatuor Diotima – Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor [2023 Recording]

Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean – Martin Iddon: Hesperides

Beatrice Rana, Amsterdam Sinfonietta – Bach: Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052, 1053, 1054, 1056

Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel – Liza Lehmann: Songs – A Good Future

Martin Rummel, Philippe Raskin – Shostakovich & Prokofiev: Cello Sonatas

Stephen Salters, Donald Berman, David Zobel – Elena Ruehr: Songs for Stephen

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Angel of Peace

Giovanni Sollima, Il Pomo d’Oro, Federico Guglielmo – Giovanni Sollima: Al-Bunduqiyya – The Misplaced Concerto

Thomas Søndergård, Royal Scottish Nationwide Orchestra – Bacewicz, Lutoslawski, Szymanowski

Michael Spyres, Carlo Rizzi – Donizetti: Songs, Vol. 3

Tamara Stefanovich – Organised Delirium

Third Coast Percussion – Normal Stoppages

Richard Tognetti, Australian Chamber Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Serenade; Andante Cantabile; Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony

Trio Con Brio Copenhagen – Harmonie du soir: Ravel & Schubert

Voices of Hope, Mark Edwards, Will Todd – Will Todd: All Will Be Nicely

Chu-Yu Yang, Eric McElroy – An English Pastoral

Jing Yang – Excellent Happiness: Piano Music of Nils Vigeland

Rachel Yonan, Kwan Yi – Kiss on Wooden

Krystian Zimerman, Maria Nowak, Katarzyna Budnik, Yuya Okamoto – Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3

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