• Erato New Releases

    Christina Pluhar, l’Arpeggiata Erato · 2685430249 · 74 minutes Christina Pluhar has always had a gift for building a world rather than just a playlist, and La Torre del Oro does exactly that — pulling you into a sun-drenched, port-city atmosphere where Baroque, folk, and improvisation blur into something genuinely alive. What Gramophone catches well is how Pluhar’s real […]

    ERATO | 26.06.24

  • Johan Dalene

    Johan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds BIS · BIS2620 · 73 minutes Few pairings make as much sense as Nielsen and Sibelius together — both composers think in long, breathing arcs that demand a violinist who can hold a line without ever letting it feel labored. Johan Dalene does exactly that, shaping those sprawling melodies with […]

    JOHAN DALENE | 26.06.24

  • Carl Nielsen

    Johan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds BIS · BIS2620 · 73 minutes Johan Dalene pairs two concertos that share a Nordic bloodline but couldn’t be more different in temperament — Nielsen’s is restless and argumentative, Sibelius’s inward and searching — and he handles both with a maturity that feels well beyond his years. His sense of […]

    CARL NIELSEN | 26.06.24

  • Rachel Podger

    Rachel Podger (violin) Channel Classics · CCSSA35513 · 78 minutes Rachel Podger’s Guardian Angel gathers works by Biber, Walther, Westhoff, and others into a program that feels less like a recital and more like a candlelit conversation with the Baroque violin’s wilder, more adventurous side. The playing has that rare quality where every ornament and phrase seems inevitable, like […]

    RACHEL PODGER | 26.06.24

  • Alison Balsom

    Alison Balsom (trumpet), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano)The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock Warner Classics · 4403292 · 66 minutes Purcell and Handel wrote for the trumpet like they were daring it to be more than just fanfare — all that interplay between brass and voice, those long-breathed melodic lines that feel almost impossible. Balsom meets that dare head-on, […]

    ALISON BALSOM | 26.06.24

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