Beethoven Transformed, Volumes 1 and 2 Boxwood & Brass (Resonus Classics)
It’s 50 years since Martin Simpson dropped out of college to follow his vocation as a guitarist and his intention had been to celebrate the milestone with a live album. The best-laid plans… Instead Home Recordings finds him live in his living room and on his Peak District porch, the sounds of nature captured on “Lonesome Valley Geese” and on “March 22”, the brief closing track.
A New Century The Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland Orchestra)
Henrique Oswald: Piano Concerto, Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 Clélia Iruzun (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Jac van Steen (Somm)
Jess Gillam: Time (Decca)
Ole Bull: Stages of Life Annar Follesø (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Eun Sun Kim, with Wolfgang Plagge (piano) (2L)
Kemal Belevi: Guitar Duos Duo Tandem (Naxos)
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Orchestre National de Lille/Alexandre Bloch (Alpha Classics)
CPE Bach: Complete Piano Trios Linos Piano Trio (C-Avi)
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Turku Philharmonic Orchestra/Leif Segerstam, with Essi Luttinen (mezzo-soprano) (Alba)