Classical Highlights for June 2025

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Classical Highlights for June 2025

As traditional, we heard a wide-ranging number of music this previous month. What stands out in one of the best releases is the thoughtfulness, whether or not within the programming of the chosen works or the interpretation of them. Anna Lapwood’s (pictured) Firedove was meant to maintain listeners guessing and engaged. The Misplaced Tapes of Sviatoslav Richter exhibit intimately the profoundness of his taking part in. Andris Nelsons was joined by pianist Yuja Wang for a chic entry in his collection overlaying the orchestral music of Shostakovich. And oboist Nicholas Daniel discovers the gratifying, mid-Twentieth century music of Madeleine Dring. Flick thru the listing to search out different intriguing interpretations and applications.

June Classical Reviews
June Classical Critiques

Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Kurtág: Játékok

Benjamin Alard, Gerlinde Sämann – Johann Sebastian Bach: The Full Works for Keyboard, Vol. 10 – Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530; Notenbüchlein für A.M. Bach

Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu – For Dieter: The Previous and the Future – Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Nicola Benedetti, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon – Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Le Consort – Start the Track!: A Purcell Academy

Michel Béroff – Bach: Overture within the French Type; Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30 & 31

Eleonora Buratto, Jonathan Tetelman, Ludovic Tézier, Daniel Harding – Puccini: Tosca

Karina Canallakis, Gábor Bretz, Rinat Shaham, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Citadel

Francesca Chiejina, Sarah Connolly, David Temple, Crouch Finish Pageant Refrain, London Mozart Gamers, David Temple – Elgar: The Kingdom

Marianne Croux, Cyrille Dubois, Coline Dutilleul, Guilhem Worms – Georges Bizet: Les Mélodies

Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Firm – Maurice Greene: Jephtha

Nicholas Daniel, Adam Walker, Amy Harman, Antonio Oyarzábal – Madeleine Dring: Full Works for Oboe

Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Baroklyn – Complicité: Bach, Philip Lasser

Ensemble Louise Farrenc – Farrenc, Firsova, Bonis: Chamber Music

Eusebius Quartet – Elgar & Fauré: String Quartets

Isabelle Faust, Jean- Frédéric Neuburger – Ligeti: Concertos – Violin, Piano & Romanesc

Pablo Ferrández – Moonlight Variations

Fretwork – My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly

George Xiaoyuan Fu – Colouring Ebook

Ophélie Gaillard – Cello Tango

John Eliot Gardiner, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Johannes Brahms: Full Symphonies

Edward Gardner, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir – Rachmaninov: The Bells; Symphonic Dances

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber – Brahms: Lieder

Girton Faculty Choir, Cambridge; Jeremy West; Western Wyndes – Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 5: Motets for the Liturgical 12 months

Benjamin Grosvenor – Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3; Ballade No. 1; Berceuse; Nocturnes

Franz Halász – Villa-Lobos: The Full Solo Works

Thomas Hampson, Würth Philharmoniker, Claudio Vandelli – Brahms/Glanert: Vier Präludien und Ernste Gesänge; Brahms: Variationen über ein Thema von Joseph Haydn; And many others.

Domingo Hindoyan, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’; Memento de Florence

Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch – Be Nonetheless My Coronary heart: Robert Gund & Wilhelm Grosz

Jack Quartet – Austin Wulliman: Escape Rites

Marija Jelic, Dario Salvi, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra – Adolphe Adam: Griseldis

Lucas Jussen, Arthur Jussen – Cantus

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2: Brahms, Héritte-Viardot

Sheku Kanneh-Mason – Shostakovich & Britten

Les Kapsber’women – Vox Feminae

Kebyart – Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel

Julian Kershaw, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Oliver Davis: Life

Bomsori Kim, Jakub Hrůša – Bruch & Korngold

Felix Klieser, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Jamie Phillips Northern Colors

David Korevaar – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas – Heroic to Hammerklavier

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica – Viktor Kalabis: Duettina; Chamber Music; Diptych

Carolyn Kuan, American Composers Orchestra – Huang Ruo: An American Soldier

Anna Lapwood – Firedove

Yunchan Lim, Fort Value Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3

London Symphony Orchestra, Steve Schermer, Jonathan Pasternack, Bobby Collins – Orchestrating the Wild: Sarah Louise Bassingthwaighte

Charlie Lovell-Jones, Invoice Anderson, Rumon Gamba – Ruth Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

Magdalen Faculty Choir, Oxford; Mark Williams – Be Nonetheless My Soul: Hymns from Magdalen

Jaime Martin, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Gustav Holst: The Planets (and Earth)

Ariane Matiakh, Patricia Petibon, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Charles Koechlin: Symphony No. 1; Au loin; 3 Mélodies

Anne Akiko Meyers – Beloved

Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6

Clare O’Connell – Gentle Flowing

Kristine Opolais, Günther Groissböck, Andris Nelsons – Shostakovich: Woman Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Laurence Perkins – Honey-Colored Cow: Moosic for Bassoon

Aaron Pilsan – Bach: The Properly-Tempered Clavier, Ebook II

Anna Prohaska, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi – Mozart: Haffner-Akademie

Konrad Ragossnig – Spanish Guitar Recital

Lucy Railton – Blue Veil

Simon Rattle, Agneta Eichenholz, Katarina Karnéus, London Symphony Orchestra – Janáček: Jenůfa

Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé – Northern Gentle: Echoes from Seventeenth-century Scandinavia

Sviatoslav Richter – The Misplaced Tapes: Beethoven – Sonatas Nos. 18, 27, 28 & 31

Christophe Rousset, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques – Antonio Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan de’ Tartari

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton – Schubert’s 4 Seasons

Aziz Shokhakimov, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg – Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Handel: Messiah – Choruses

Albert Cano Smit – Bach: The Artwork of Fugue

Yeol Eum Son, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Anja Bihlmaier – Ravel: Concertos; Bach/Wittgenstein

Arabella Steinbacher, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Gustavo Gimeno – Beethoven & Lentz

Choir of St John’s Faculty, Cambridge; Christopher Grey – Lament & Liberation

Justin Taylor – Chopin Intime

Alexandre Tharaud – Concertos: Thierry Pécou, Ramon Lazkano, Alex Nante

Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen – Michael Gordon: A Western; Caroline Shaw: How you can Fold the Wind

Francesco Tristano- Bach: The 6 English Suites

György Vashegyi – Édouard Lalo: Le Roi d’Ys

Mathilde Vialle, Thibaut Roussel, Ronan Khalil, Zachary Wilder – The Final Rose: Songs, Tunes and Dances from a Mysterious Manuscript

Mathias Vidal, Valentin Tournet – Rameau: Platée

Yuja Wang, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons – Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works

Franz Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra – Julius Eastman: Symphony No. 2; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2

Kahchun Wong, The Hallé – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Zemlinsky Quartet – Bedrich Smetana: String Quartets

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