February’s New Album Releases 2024
4/3/2024
February's New Album Releases 2024
The latest album on LSO Live’s cycle of Janáček opera recordings, Katya Kabanova, tells a story of love, entrapment and, ultimately, tragedy. The album’s cast includes Katarina Dalayman, singing the role of Kabanicha alongside London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under Sir Simon Rattle.
Gustavo Gimeno recorded Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie on hamonia mundi, with Marc-André Hamelin, Nathalie Forget and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, offering us a dazzling reading of the Turangalîla-Symphonie. Equally attentive to architecture and to detail, they glorify the rich and refined orchestration of the French composer’s vast hymn to love, always on the lookout for unprecedented sonic alchemies.
Recorded on Chandos, Mari Eriksmoen features in Grieg: Symphonic Dances alongside Astrid Nordstad, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner.
Next, Pulcinella (Suite) — Falla: Master Peter’s Puppet Show & Harpsichord Concerto features Pablo Heras-Casado, released on the harmonia mundi label. The three works on this CD evoke the worlds of Commedia dell’arte (Pulcinella), Don Quixote (El retablo de maese Pedro) and picaresque Spain (the Harpsichord Concerto). Telling their stories with colour, rhythm and humour, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado and Benjamin Alard invite us to an exhilarating fireworks display.
Birdsong’s Olivia Belli’s new album Intermundia is out now on Sony Music’s XXIM Records, her second full-length release for the label. The album is inspired by a series of locations near Belli’s home in Le Marche, Central Italy, each represented by its own track. Belli says: “Intermundia tells of eight places of silence and introspection where the veil between this world and the other is thin. My eight places of refuge where I see beyond things the spirit that shapes them.”
