Italian Songs : Masumitsu Miyamoto(Br)Ensemble Classica

Choral and Vocal News

• Schwanewilms / Strauss: Four Last Songs

  Friday, June 22nd 2012

  
  Soon after their first performance in 1950, within months of the composer's death, Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs became one of his most enduringly popular works.

• Kathleen Ferrier / The Complete EMI Recordings

  Monday, April 9th 2012

  
  Issued to mark the centenary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth, this 3CD set brings together for the first time all the EMI recordings by this great contralto, including two previously unissued tracks.

• Sara Mingardo / Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

  Friday, March 30th 2012

  
  Luigi Piovano and Sara Mingardo choose a different perspective on the music of Gustav Mahler, through the eyes of Arnold Schoenberg.

• Christopher Maltman / Schubert: Schwanengesang

  Tuesday, January 24th 2012

  
  Concluding a highly acclaimed series of Schubert song cycles on the Wigmore Hall Live label, the much anticipated Schwanengesang.

• Accentus / Mendelssohn: Christus

  Thursday, December 1st 2011

  
  Award winning choral group Accentus and its musical director Laurence Equilbey are joined on this new recording of some of Felix Mendelssohn’s sacred choral works by one of the most acclaimed sopranos of recent years, Sandrine Piau.

• Mariss Jansons / Gounod: St Cecilia Mass

  Friday, October 14th 2011

  
  These two popular 19th century orchestral masses could hardly be more different: even though there are only 40 years between Franz Schubert's Mass No.2 in G major D. 167 and Charles Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass.

• Barbara Hendricks / Schubert: Winterreise

  Tuesday, October 4th 2011

  
  Four years after 'Die schone Mullerin', Schubert began, still to poems by Wilhelm Muller, his 'Winterreise', a 'Winter Journey' that started where the earlier work had ended.