Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Josquin, Tabea Debus

CLASSICAL CDS Downsized Beethoven, Renaissance polyphony and lots of recorders

Downsized Beethoven, Renaissance polyphony and lots of recorders

 

Boxwood 1Beethoven Transformed, Volumes 1 and 2 Boxwood & Brass (Resonus Classics)

Album: Martin Simpson - Home Recordings

Fingerpicking good

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.

Classical CDs Weekly: US Election Special

CLASSICAL CDS Eclectic, supersized celebration of American composers & performers

An eclectic, supersized celebration of American composers and performers

 

Cleveland New CenturyA New Century The Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland Orchestra)

Classical CDs Weekly: Jess Gillam, John Harle, Voces8

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Anthologies from a young saxophonist and her mentor, plus a wide ranging choral collection

Anthologies from a young saxophonist and her mentor, plus a wide ranging choral collection

 

Jess Gillam TimeJess Gillam: Time (Decca)

Classical CDs Weekly: Ole Bull, Vítězslav Novák, Schumann

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Virtuoso violin music from Norway, early Czech modernism and a pair of German romantic symphonies

Virtuoso violin music from Norway, early Czech modernism and a pair of German romantic symphonies

 

Ole Bull Stages of LifeOle Bull: Stages of Life Annar Follesø (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Eun Sun Kim, with Wolfgang Plagge (piano) (2L)