Maurice Yvain: Yes!
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | Alpha Classics
Beethoven: Leonore (Urfassung 1805 der Oper "Fidelio")
Staatskapelle Dresden
Opera - Released January 1, 1977 | Eterna
Mozart: Zaide
The Academy of Ancient Music / Paul Goodwin
Opera - Released April 13, 1998 | harmonia mundi
Atys
Christophe Rousset
Opera - Released January 5, 2024 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5, 6 & 10
Antje Weithaas
Classical - Released March 29, 2024 | CAvi-music
Haydn All-Stars (Haydn, Ravel, Fontyn, Brahms)
Trio Ernest
Chamber Music - Released January 19, 2024 | Aparté
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 0-5
Mari Kodama
Classical - Released October 11, 2019 | Berlin Classics
Mahler Songs
Joseph Middleton
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released July 28, 2023 | Signum Records
The art song might seem to present Mahler's style in miniature, but actually song pervaded his output. Some of the vocal movements in his symphonies use his songs directly, and beyond this, his interests in and treatments of German poetry set the tone for a major strand of his work, in general. Consider the grim Kindertotenlieder ("Songs on the Deaths of Children"), setting texts by Friedrich Rückert. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, recently recovered from cancer surgery when this recording was made in 2021, seems to find resonance in these, and her voice, always persuasive in Mahler, has a rather uncannily fragile quality in these quiet songs. In the bigger songs from the Rückert-Lieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen sets, Connolly has to apply a lot of vibrato by this time; listeners' reaction to this will vary, but she is nowhere less than emotionally honest and engaged here. Sample Wenn dein Mütterlein from the Kindertotenlieder, truly heartbreaking in Connolly's hands. Joseph Middleton, always a top-notch accompanist, outdoes himself here, introducing hints of the hidden psychological currents that make these songs so absorbing. A fine entry in Connolly's late-career turn toward Mahler specialization, this made classical best-seller lists in the summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
The Off-Season
J. Cole
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released May 14, 2021 | Dreamville, Inc., Under exclusive license to Roc Nation Records
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios
Trio Sōra
Classical - Released November 6, 2020 | naïve
Camille Saint-Saëns: Phryné
Hervé Niquet
Opera - Released February 11, 2022 | Bru Zane
Lully : Bellérophon
Christophe Rousset
Full Operas - Released January 25, 2011 | Aparté
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies & Barry: Selected Works
Thomas Adès
Classical - Released October 21, 2022 | Signum Records
Cadmus & Hermione
Vincent Dumestre
Classical - Released May 1, 2021 | Château de Versailles Spectacles
Beethoven: Piano Trios - "Archduke" & "Ghost"
Beaux Arts Trio
Classical - Released September 21, 2016 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Lully: Acis et Galatée, LWV 73
Jean-François Lombard
Opera - Released October 13, 2023 | Naxos
Wer hat hier schlechte Laune
Max Raabe
Pop - Released October 14, 2022 | We Love Music
The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings (4CD)
Louis Armstrong
Jazz - Released August 13, 2000 | Columbia - Legacy
Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein
London Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Released November 17, 2023 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)