Recent Classical Highlights for March 2023

Each month here we try to point you to new releases that cover new music — such as orchestral works by Missy Mazzoli — or rarely heard or re-discovered music — like the guitar works of Justin Holland, but there are always the warhorses of classical repertoire that deserve a little love also. Revered conductor Riccardo Chailly (pictured) chose some well-known choruses from Verdi’s operas. Beethoven’s complex late string quartets were recently recorded by the Calidore String Quartet. Enrico Dindo played Dvorák’s lyrical solos in an album of music for cello and orchestra. The old standbys still have life in them.

Art Deco Trio – Classical Changes

Bach Aria Soloists – Le Dolce Sirene

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camaerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy – Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7

Mary Bevan – Visions Illuminées

Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mystery Sonatas

Katelyn Bouska – Women and War and Peace

Calidore String Quartet – Beethoven: The Late Quartets

Cappella Romana, Alexander Lingas – A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court: Christmas 1400, London

Thibault Cauvin – Bach

Cello8 – Ode à la nuit

Riccardo Chailly, La Scala Theater Chorus & Orchestra – Verdi Choruses

Fabrizio Chiovetta – Schumann: Fantasie; Arabeske; Kinderszenen

Seong-Jin Cho – The Handel Project

Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Solomon

Het Collectief – Transfigurations: Schönberg, Berg

Enrico Dindo, Orchestra della Toscana, Daniele Rustioni – Dvorák: Cello Concerto Op. 104; Rondo Op. 94; Klid – Waldesruhe Op. 68 No. 5; Laßt mich allein – Lie

Veronika Eberle, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Violin Concerto with new cadenzas by Jörg Widmann

Mark Elder, Hallé – Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale

Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano – Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919); Ravel: Bolero

JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 2

Isabelle Faust, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – Stravinsky: Violin Concerto; Chamber Works

Boris Giltburg, Vasily Petrenko – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4

Raphaela Gromes, Lucerne Festival Strings – Femmes

HK Gruber, Swedish Chamber Orchestra – Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Der Silbersee excerpts

François-Frederic Guy – Chopin: Secret Garden

Lionel Handy, Jennifer Hughes – British Cello Works, Vol. 2

Haymarket Opera Company – Saint-Georges: L’Amant Anonyme

Eldbjørg Hemsing, Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra – Artic

Peter Herresthal, Arctic Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright

Holland Baroque – Bachs Königin

Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Victor Julien-Laferrière, Orchestre Consuelo – Brahms: Sérénades

Ji Su Jung, Katherine Needleman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Kevin Puts: The City; Marimba Concerto; Moonlight

Walter Klien, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453; Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595

Alexis Kossenko – Walckiers, L’iconoclaste: Chamber Works

Nikolai Lugansky – Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux; 3 Pieces

Cristian Macelaru, WDR Sinfonieorchester – Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Dance Suite

Christopher Mallett – Justin Holland: Guitar Works and Arrangements

Martinu Quartet, Ludmila Peterková, Jan Dušek – David Post: Concertino a Cinque; Piano Quintet

Mivos Quartet- Steve Reich: The String Quartets

Susan Narucki, Donald Berman – This Island

Niu Niu – Lifetime

Phantasm – Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort III

Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch – Voyage intime

Sandrine Piau, Julien Prégardien, Andrew Parrott – Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Die verstellte Gärtnerin

Markus Poschner, Bruckner Orchester Linz – Bruckner: Symphony #8 (1887 Version)

Quatuor Van Kuijk – Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud – Marin Marais

David Reiland, Orchestre National de Metz – Betsy Jolas, Mel Bonis, Lili Boulanger, Augusta Holmès: Poètesses Symphoniques

La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton, Benjamin Perrot – Le Concert des Oiseaux

Lucile Richardot, Anne de Fornel – Les Heures Claires: Nadia & Lili Boulanger – The Complete Songs

Soloists of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra – Claudio Santoro: Fantasias Sul América; Sonata for Solo Violin

Randall Scotting, Stephen Stubbs – Lovesick

Charlie Siem, Itamar Golan – Vaughan Williams, Grieg: Violin Sonatas

Barnaby Smith – Bach

Arabella Steinbacher – Bach & Pärt

Marek Štilec, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra – Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5

Yevgeny Sudbin – Romeo and Juliet: Tchaikovsky on the Piano

Tasto Solo – Eros & Subtilitas: Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo

Trio Gaspard – Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol. 2; Leonid Gorokhov: For Gaspard

Elina Vähälä, Jonathan Roozeman, Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts – Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto 2; Cello Concerto 2

Gottfried von der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester, Kristian Bezuidenhout – Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3-5

Kitty Whately, Joseph Middleton – Befreit: A Soul Surrendered

John Wilson, Sinfonia of London – Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Howells: Concerto for String Orchestra; Delius: Late Swallows; Elgar: Introduction and Allegro

Cecilia Zilliacus, Christian Ihle Hadland, Stephen Fitpatrick – Saint-Saëns: Sonatas pour Violon et Piano