Folks speak about music as being a common language, one which transcends cultures and borders. Composers borrow from different cultures to introduce these cultures to their very own individuals, as Hugo Wolf did together with his Italienisches Liederbuch — just lately recorded by Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson, and Joseph Middleton — turning Italian poetry into German artwork songs. The reverse is completed additionally, the place musicians carry out works by fellow countrymen to introduce these works to a wider viewers, as Latvian Gidon Kremer (pictured above) does with the brand new PPP: Plakidis, Pētersons, Pelēcis album. Some artists simply really feel an affinity for a composer due to their shared cultural roots or a musical lineage; for an instance, hear tenor Cyrille Dubois’ recording of the whole songs of Gabriel Fauré. Hear for extra cultural clues on this batch of latest albums.
Gina Alice – Wonderworld
Giovanni Antonini, Kammerorchester Base – Haydn 2032, No. 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs
Matthew Aubin, Jackson Symphony Orchestra – Fernande Decruck: Concertante Works
Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willen – Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
William Carter – Esaias Reusner: Delitiae testudinis
Bertrand Chamayou – Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
Helen Charlston, Toby Carr – Battle Cry: She Speaks
Paolo Chiavacci, Francesco La Vecchia – Gian Francesco Malipiero: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and a couple of; Per una favola cavalleresca
Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton – Hugo Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Monteverdi: Anima dolorosa – Il quarto libro de madrigali
Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Sibelius: Symphony No. 7; Pelléas et Mélisande; King Christian II
Danish String Quartet – Prism IV: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach
Stéphane Denève, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR – Maurice Ravel: Orchesterwerke
Roel Dieltiens, Andreas Staier – Beethoven: Cello Sonatas & Bagatelles Opp. 102, 119 & 126
Peter Donohoe – Grieg: Lyric Items, Vol. 1
Cyrille Dubois, Tristan Raës – Fauré: Full Songs
Emperor Quartet – Benjamin Britten: The Music for String Quartet
Ensemble Intercontemporain – Steve Reich: Reich/Richter
Gerald Finley, Julius Drake – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Pavel Giunter, Rokas Vaitkevicius, Lithuantian Chamber Orchestra, Karolis Variakojis – Zibuokle Martinaityte: Ex Tenebris Lux
Matthias Goerne, Daniil Trifonov – Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms
Håkan Hardenberger, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Fabien Gabel – French Trumpet Concertos
Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Stucky: Silent Spring
Paavo Järvi, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 ‘Winter Daydreams”; Italian Capriccio; Waltz from ‘Eugene Onegin’
Pavel Kolesnikov – Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica – PPP: Plakidis, Pētersons, Pelēcis
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew – Vivaldi: The Nice Venetian Mass
Yoav Levanon – A Monument for Beethoven
Paul Lewis – Beethoven: The Well-known Piano Sonatas
Valentina Lisitsa – Chopin
London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham – H.F. Handel/J.A. Hasse: Caio Fabbricio, HWV A9
Louis Lortie – Louis Lortie Performs Chopin, Vol. 7
Sally Matthews, Julian Hubbard, Ben Glassberg – Britten: The Flip of the Screw
Lisa Moore – Frederic Rzewski: No place to go however round
Marc Niemann, Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven – Music from the Shadows: Emilie Mayer – Symphonies Nos 6 & 3
Hervé Niquet, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris – Jules Massenet: Songs with Orchestra
David Orlowsky, David Bergmüller – Alter Ego
Nicholas Phan – Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly
Francesco Piemontesi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Johathan Nott – Schoenberg, Messiaen, Ravel
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov – Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonatas
Max Richter, Elena Urioste, Chineke! Orchestra – Max Richter: The New 4 Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed
Mari Samuelsen, Scoring Berlin Orchestra, Jonathan Stockhammer – Lys
Sestina, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan – The Hibernian Muse: Music for Eire by Purcell and Cousser
Lahav Shani, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra – Weill: Symphony No. 2; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Masato Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan – Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 2
Time for Three, Philadelphia Orchestra, Xian Zhang – Letters for the Future
Freddie De Tommaso – Il Tenore
William Vann – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pan’s Anniversary
Numerous Artists – Eric Tanguy: In a Dream – Chamber Music
Franz Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra – Strauss: Three Tone Poems
Carolin Widmann – L’Aurore
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