Joyce DiDonato takes the lead role in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, with Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev. Other cast members include Michael Spyres, Fatma Said and Beth…
Pianist Alexander Melnikov and soprano Julia Lezhneva in a Rachmaninoff program, played on the composer's own instrument.
Bojan Čičić and Rachel Podger in two new albums with Biber violin sonatas from 1681.
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburger Barockorchester in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played on period instruments.
Justin Taylor plays Chopin on a Pleyel Pianino from 1839, including Preludes, Nocturnes Mazurkas and Etudes.
Raphaël Pichon leads Pygmalion and soloists in Bach's Mass in B Minor.
Harpsichordist and director Francesco Corti leads Il Pomo d’Oro in works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Georg Benda.
Review of two recordings of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Théotime Langlois de Swarte with Le Consort, and Daniel Pioro with the Manchester Camerata.
Jérémie Rhorer leads Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Audi Jugendchorakademie in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Anima Eterna in symphony No. 4 ("Romantic"), and Vladimir Jurowski conducts the RSO Berlin in symphony No. 7
