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Those folks at Alpha do it again: a superb recording of a piece that really deserves better recognition. This time, it is Beethoven under their gaze: an oratorio – Beethoven’s only one – on Christ […]

Pretty much every recording by Mariss Jansons is impactful: here on Classical Explorer, we have covered him in Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and Sixth Symphony. This multi-composer […]

Cowbridge Music Festival is proud to unveil plans for its 2024 Young Artist Programme, which showcases the remarkable talents of Wales’ emerging musicians. This year’s Young Ensembles will be the Cardiff-based Bute Wind Quintet, and RWCMD graduates Quartet […]

Introducing Chromatica Orchestra I am told of a new orchestra, and the press release is below. I hope to report on the Batttersea concert (the Barber Violin Concerto is heard far too little os this […]

Bruckner BBC Singers / Owain Park (conductor); Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Peternko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.9.2024 Bruckner Os justi (1879). Locus iste (1869). Chrisus factus est (1884)      Symphony No. 5 in B […]

SOMM Announces Signing of Burkard Schliessmann SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the exclusive signing of the German pianist Burkard Schliessmann. Burkard Schliessmann Burkhard Schliessmann, recipient of the renowned Goethe-Prize of Frankfurt/(2019/20), is one of the most compelling […]

PROM 52 Bizet Carmen from Glyndebourne. Cast; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Anja Bihlmaier (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 29.08.2024 Production: Director – Diane Paulusi RAH semi-staging – Adam Torrence  Cast: Carmen – Rihan Chaieb Don José […]

71 minutes of Fauré. Heaven. Renaud Capuçon maximises his association with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. begins with something of a miracle: Capuçon dares to begin with the one movement we have of a […]

The annual Wiener Philharmoniker concert in the idyllic surroundings of Schönbrunn Palace (Schloß Schönbrunn) is a much-anticipated event. It is released annually by Sony, and the last one covered by Classical Explorer was the 2021 […]

Music of the homeland featured at this Czech Philharmonic Prom: Dvořák and Suk, two core Czech composers themselves bound by a familial link: Suk married Dvořák’s daughter Otilie, in 1898.  The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra is […]