June’s New Album Releases 2024
25/6/2024
June's New Album Releases 2024
We’re delighted to announce the release of Akiko Suwanai’s latest album, Brahms: The Sonatas, with the complete sonatas for violin and piano, released on 26 June on Universal Music. The works have been at the core of Suwanai’s 2023/24 season, with tours across China and Japan with Evgeni Bozhanov, with whom she also recorded the album.
Klaus Mäkelä and Oslo Philharmonic join Janine Jansen for the album Sibelius, Prokofiev 1: Violin Concertos on Decca Classics, forming the ultimate classical dream team. “The highlight of the program was the Sibelius Violin Concerto, in the hands of the Dutch Janine Jansen… Jansen and Mäkelä recorded this concert together last summer… and it promises to be a true reference, based on what was heard in Oslo.” — Platea
Recordings of the acclaimed Parsifal production under the musical direction of Pablo Heras-Casado, released on June 28 in various audio and video formats on Deutsche Grammophon, confirm that the conductor is one of the most influential Wagner conductors of his generation.
This first symphonic recording featuring Kent Nagano releases Schubert, Webern, Mahler on FARAO classics with Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, devoted to the highly charged period at the turning point between Romanticism and Modernism.
The programme consists of two chamber works by Schubert, orchestrated by Mahler and Webern and presented in a new guise, as well as an original, early chamber work by Webern.
“The Schubert-Mahler-Webern triad contains an important piece of music history which, in the way the works are interwoven with each other, we can experience here like under a magnifying glass. It is part of the history of Romanticism in its late phase, shim-mering in new colors on the threshold of modernity.” — Kent Nagano
Osmo Vänskä and Minnesota Orchestra present Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.3, an extraordinary work by any standards. Vänskä was appointed as Conductor Laureate from September 2022, after having served as Music Director of the orchestra for 19 seasons.
The recording was made following a concert performance in November 2022. In this musical communion with nature, we hear the beautiful voices of English mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, the Minnesota Boychoir and women of the Minnesota Chorale. The symphony’s finale, a deeply absorbing adagio, might simply be some of the most beautiful music ever written.
Mishka Rushdie Momen’s latest album, Reformation, featuring keyboard works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck, is now available from Hyperion. Marking her debut with the label, this album presents a selection of late Tudor music, bringing a modern piano perspective to these works.
