Recent Classical Highlights

It's winter here in the northern hemisphere, and if you are looking for something to warm you up, why not try the rich sound of the viola, the deeper-voiced cousin of the violin? This month's releases include the Brahms' viola sonatas by Philip Dukes (pictured above) and concertos of Telemann by Antoine Tamestit. You might also be warmed by the tangos of Piazzolla performed by Escualo5. These are just a few of the current choices for your listening.

Benjamin Alard - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 5
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves
Marin Alsop - Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'; Nusch-Nuschi; Tänze; Sancta Susana
Aviv Quartet - Schubert: The Last Quartets
Daniel Barenboim, Weiner Philharmoniker - Neujahrskonzert 2022
Inon Barnatan - Time Traveler's Suite
Marcantonio Barone - George Crumb: Metamorphoses, Books I & II
Steven Beck - George Walker: Five Piano Sonatas (1953-2003)
Belfast Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens - A Belfast Christmas
Maïa Brami, Igor Karsko, Camerata Zürich - Leos Janácek: On an Overgrown Path
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener - Sir James MacMillan: Consecration
Renaud Capuçon, Guillaume Bellom - Un Violon à Paris
Cameron Carpenter - Bach & Hanson
Christopher Cerrone - The Arching Path
Chelys Consort of Viols - Purcell: Fantazias
Michael Collins, Stephen Hough - Brahms: 3 Sonatas
Sarah Cunningham, Richard Egarr - Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
Thomas Dausgaard, Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 'Scottish'
Lise Davidsen, Leif Ove Andsnes - Edvard Grieg
Lea Desandre, Jupiter, Thomas Dunford - Amazone
Shani Diluka - The Proust Album
Doric String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2
Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Philip Dukes, Peter Donohoe - Brahms: Viola Sonatas; Sonatensatz, Op. post.; Schumann: Adagio and Allegro
Mari Eriksmoen, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner - Britten: Les Illuminations; Quatre Chansons françaises; Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (Selections)
Escualo5 - Astor Piazzolla
Eusebius Quartet, Alasdair Beatson - Chamber Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Fitzwilliam String Quartet - Schubert: Late String Quartets
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Anna Szalucka - Four Trumpet Sonatas after Mozart created by Timothy Jones
Fretwork, Sials Wollston, David Miller - Matthew Locke: The Flat Consort
Steven Gross, Philip Ficsor, Constantine Finehouse - William Bolcom: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano; Suite No. 2 for Solo Violin
Kenneth Hamilton - Kenneth Hamilton plays Liszt, Vol. 1: Death and Transfiguration
Alexandre Kantorow - Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3; Chaconne (Bach); Four Ballades
Christiane Karg, Gerold Huber - Licht der Welt: A Christmas Promenade
Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored
Yevgeny Kutik, Anna Polonsky - The Death of Juliet and Other Tales: Music of Prokofiev
Anneleen Lenaerts - Vienna Stories
Julien Libeer - J.S. Bach & Beyond: A Well-Tempered Conversation
Jakob Lindberg - Bach on the Rauwolf Lute
Ronn McFarlane, Carolyn Anderson Surrick - A Star in the East
Anthony McGill, Gloria Chien - Here With You: The Brahms Sonatas
Melody Moore, Stefano Secco, Lawrence Foster - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Nicolas Namoradze - Arabesque: Piano Music of Schumann and Namoradze
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century - The Hidden Reunion
Christoph Prégardien, Ulrich Eisenlohr - Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 1 - Opp. 32, 43, 86 and 105
Recap - Count to Five
James Rutherford, Eugene Asti - Schubert: Winterreise
Atsushi Sakai, Marion Martineau, Christophe Rousset - Marin Marais: Pièces de Viole Livre I
Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations - Joseph Haydn: Die Schöpfung
Andreas Scholl, Edin Karamazov - Canciones: Bach, Brouwer
Aleksey Semenenko, Artem Belogurov - Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas by Previn, Schemmer, Gay
Dima Slobodeniouk. Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Scenes from the Kalevala: Klavmi, Sibelius, Madetoja, Pylkkänen
Spektral Quartet - Enigma: Spektral Quartet performs Anna Thovaldsdottir
Michael Spyres, Marc Minkowski - Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge - The Tree
Andreas Staier - Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperiertes Klavier - Zweiter Teil
Antoine Tamestit - Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos; Overtures; Fantasias
Franz Welser-Möst, Yefim Bronfman, Cleveland Orchestra - Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings; Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2
Wild Up - Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine
Karin Wolverton, Miles Mykkanen, Courtney Lewis - Kevin Puts/Mark Campbell: Silent Night
See Siang Wong - Beethoven Trilogy 2: Childhood