{"id":99275,"date":"2023-05-01T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/recent-classical-highlights-for-april-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:59:13","slug":"recent-classical-highlights-for-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/recent-classical-highlights-for-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Classical Highlights for April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n                        There are some fascinating concertos amongst this month&#8217;s new evaluations. Mahan Esfahani is the soloist in twentieth century works for a sixteenth century instrument, the harpsichord. Also making what&#8217;s previous new once more, in additional methods than one, is a re-mastered recording of Rachmaninov&#8217;s piano concertos with Peter R\u00f6sel and conductor Kurt Sanderling, each of whom approached the works in another way than most different performers. Conductor JoAnn Falletta is a champion of composer Kevin Puts, with a brand new recording that includes his newest concertos for marimba and for oboe, the latter that includes Katherine Needleman (pictured). Finally, pianist Yuja Wang offers us a brand new, 11-movement concerto by Teddy Abrams that will attraction to followers of Gershwin&#8217;s live performance music.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-s3.allmusic.com\/cms\/25024\/April_2023_Review_Images.jpg\" alt=\"Classical Album Images April\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nMartha Argerich, Lahav Shani &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ravel, Beethoven<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nLes Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto &amp; Sesto<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nLes Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003909971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsoria, Feria Quinta<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nNicol\u00f2 Balducci, Barockakademin G\u00f6teborgs Symfoniker, Dan Laurin &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Amore Dolore<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nFelix Bender, Michael Seal, WDR Funkhausorchester &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nino Rota: War and Peace; Catel de Monte; Orchestra Rehearsal; Harp Concerto; Concerto for strings<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRafa\u0142 Blechacz &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Chopin<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nJoshua Blue, Steven Blier &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003941643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Black &amp; Blue<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nMartyn Brabbins, BBC Symphony Orchestra &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; Symphony No. 9<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nMarta Brankovich &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003900477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Marta, The Tempest: I would be the Last Storm Encountered<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nThe Brodsky Quartet, Laura van der Heijden, Julian Jacobson &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Golden Oldies: More Favourite Encores<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nPiotr Buszewski, Tetiana Miyus, Daniele Squeo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nino Rota: Il cappello di paglia di Firenze<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nCatalyst Quartet &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003952801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker, William Grant Still<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBirgitte Christensen, Kristina Hammarstr\u00f6m, Ren\u00e9 Jacobs &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Haydn: Stabat Mater<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nLucy Crowe, Claire Barnett-Jones, Marcus Farnsworth, Iain Burnside &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Jade Mountain: Songs by Edmund Rubbra<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nDe Profundis, Eamonn Dougan, Robert Hollingworth &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Morales: Missa Desilde al Cavallero; Missa Mille Regretz; Magnificat Primi Toni<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nEngeg\u00e5rd Quartet &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Johan Kvandal: Complete String Quartets<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nMahan Esfahani, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003862791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Harpsichord Concertos: Viktor Kalabis, Hans Kr\u00e1sa, Bohuslav Martin\u016f<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRumon Gamba, Iceland Symphony Orchestra &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Icelandic Works for the Stage: P\u00e1ll \u00cds\u00f3lfsson, J\u00f3runn Vi\u00f0ar<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nGreenwich Trio &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Brahms: Piano Trios Vol. 1 &#8211; Op. 36 &amp; 87<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBenjamin Grosvenor &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003901282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Schumann &amp; Brahms<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nHK Gruber, Swedish Chamber Orchestra &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003900581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 &amp; 2; Der Silbersee excerpts<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nDaniel Harding, Chor und Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003942271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gustav Holst: The Planets<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nStephen Hough &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003862790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mompou: M\u00fasica callada<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nClaudia Huckle, Nicky Spence, Justin Brown &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003885124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde &#8211; Mahler&#8217;s Autograph Piano Version<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nMariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tschaikowsky: Romeo &amp; Julia; Strawinsky: L&#8217;Oiseau de Feu; Var\u00e8se: Am\u00e9riques<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nPhilippe Jaroussky, Christina Pluhar, L&#8217;Arpeggiata &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Passacalle de la Follie<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nSalome Jicia, Charles Castronovo, Riccardo Frizza &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003900707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mascagni: L&#8217;Amico Fritz<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nEdin Karamazov, Pavel Steidl &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003885907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mozart, Haydn, Schubert<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nKonstantin Krimmel, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003915760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Silvestrov: Silent Songs<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nYumi Kurosawa, Yumi Kurosawa Trio &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003914445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRobert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mozart: Piano Concertos K467, K491<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nKlaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4, Orchestre de Paris &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003932079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; L&#8217;Oiseau de feu<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nGiuseppe Maletto, Il Pomo d&#8217;Oro &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003917876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gesualdo: Sacrae Cantiones<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nOvidiu Marinescu, London Symphony Orchestra &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003945974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>London Cello Connection<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nZubin Mehta, M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003853035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nAnne Akiko Meyers &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003852840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mysterium<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nChoeur de Chambre de Namur, Julien Chauvin, Le Concert de la Loge &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mozart: Requiem; Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napol\u00e9on<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Neschling, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li\u00e8ge &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Respighi: Gli Uccelli; Antiche Danze ed Arie<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nNorwegian Soloists&#8217; Choir, Ensemble Allegria, Grete Pedersen &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bent S\u00f8rensen: St. Matthew Passion<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nGarrick Ohlsson &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003905351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor D537; Piano Sonata in A significant D959<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nOrlando Consort &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003862788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Machaut: Remede de Fortune<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRafael Payare, Orchestre Symphonique de Montr\u00e9al &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mahler: Symphony No. 5<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nQuatuor Diotima &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Metamorphosis Ligeti<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nQuatuor \u00c9b\u00e8ne, Antoine Tamestit &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003920053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mozart: String Quintets Okay. 515 &amp; 516<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nSondra Radvanovsky, Ermonela Jaho, Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003910048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puccini: Turandot<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nIvan Repu\u0161i\u0107, Munich Radio Orchestra, Zbor Slovenske filharmonije &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Damijan Mocnik: Johannespassion<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nPeter R\u00f6sel, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Kurt Sanderling &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos No. 1-4; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nFran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth, G\u00fcrzenich-Orchester K\u00f6ln &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003949035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bruckner 4<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nChoir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Matthew Coleridge: Requiem<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nCarolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Elysium: A Schubert Recital<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nSeattle Symphony &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003900719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Walker: Lyric for Strings; Folksongs for Orchestra; Lilacs for Voice &amp; Orchestra; Dawson: Negro Folk<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nThe Sixteen, Harry Christophers &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Watchful Gaze<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nYeol Eum Son &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003920011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nChoir of St John&#8217;s Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003919962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Magnificat 3<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Storg\u00e5rds, BBC Philharmonic &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003920000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 &#8216;The Year 1917; Symphony No. 15<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nTippett Quartet &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1-3<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nTrio Kar\u00e9nine &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003886524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Suk &#8211; Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nYuja Wang, Louisville Orchestra, Teddy Abrams &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003900584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The American Project: Abrams, Tilson Thomas<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nFranz Welser-M\u00f6st, Cleveland Orchestra &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003910032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nRachel Willis-S\u00f8rensen &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003909934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Strauss: Four Last Songs<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nPieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003888966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Schubert: In Memoriam I<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBruce Wolosoff &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Memento<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nKenneth Woods &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Philip Sawyers: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello; Viola Concerto; Remembrance for strings; Octet<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bruce Yeh, Teresa Reilly, Patrick Godon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003918733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Chicago Clarinet Classics<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nThomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/MW0003912674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bart\u00f3k, Casken, Beethoven<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] There are some fascinating concertos amongst this month&#8217;s new evaluations. Mahan Esfahani is the soloist in twentieth century works for a sixteenth century instrument, the harpsichord. Also making what&#8217;s previous new once more, in additional methods than one, is a re-mastered recording of Rachmaninov&#8217;s piano concertos with Peter R\u00f6sel and conductor Kurt Sanderling, each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}