Classical Vinyl LPs

Eugenio Della Chiara Plays

Paganini,

Galante, García [LP]

Eugenio Della Chiara got his degree in classical guitar with full marks and honors at the Conservatoire of Pesaro. Among the Maestros he studied with three are Beppe Ficara, Andrea Dieci and Oscar Ghiglia, whose course he attended at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena. He plays guitars by Domingo Esteso (Madrid 1935) and Lucio Carbone (Milano 2021). (Stradivarius)

1LP# STR37234 $29.99

Mozart y Mambo / Sarah Willis [2 LPs]

Following the phenomenal success of the first Mozart y Mambo album, Sarah Willis returns to Cuba not only to record two more Mozart horn concertos but also to create a landmark original work that takes its place in Cuban music history. In Mozart y Mambo – Cuban Dances, Sarah commissions the very first Cuban horn concerto – calling on six young talented Cuban composers to each write an original dance. (Alpha)

2LP# ALPHA943 $36.99

Bach: Violinkonzerte [LP]

Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the most important violinists of our time, and his son Serge, who made his orchestral debut in 2000 at the age of nine with a violin concerto by Mozart, have succeeded in making a wonderful recording of the violin concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach together with the Berliner Barock Solisten. A great listening experience! (Haenssler Classic)

1LP# HC21056 $29.99

Piazzolla: Aconcagua / Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas [LP]

The accordion is an instrument that is deeply rooted in Lithuanian folk music. With its lightness and melancholy, Astor Piazzolla’s music has fascinated Martynas Levickis from an early age, and together with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, he presents an interpretation of “Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas,” Piazzolla’s timeless masterpieces of many styles that capture in music the four seasons in Buenos Aires. (Accentus)

1LP# ACC40552 $36.99

Vinyl Lps In Brief

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig [LP]

Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony is considered the absolute pinnacle of his oeuvre. These recordings, first released in 1962 on the GDR label “Eterna”, are still regarded as a reference by subsequent generations of young musicians and listeners. Thanks to a loving analog remastering of the original tapes, these recordings now resound in new splendor and in a previously unheard-of sound quality. (Berlin Classics)

1LP# 0302859BC $30.99

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Violin Concerto –Sonata for 2 Violins [LP]

With 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 9 concertos, and 7 operas, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg left behind an extensive oeuvre. Musically, one can hear the composer’s close friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich, although Weinberg’s music is more lyrical and romantic in nature. (Accentus)

1LP# ACC40518 $36.99

Mozart & Hummel / Sophie Dervaux [LP]

Bassoon player Sophie Dervaux presents her second album on the Berlin Classics label. Previously released on CD she now presents Mozart and Hummel bassoon concertos on vinyl. Sophie Dervaux has been principal bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 2015. (Berlin Classics)

1LP# 0302809BC $20.99

Beethoven: Klavierkonzerte 1–5 [5 LPs]

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven’s own instrument was the piano, and in his improvisations he merged virtuosity and unbridled expression. One of the most revered artists of our time, Mitsuko Uchida is known as a peerless interpreter of the works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven. (Berlin Philharmoniker)

5LP# BPHR180242 $228.99

Schubert in Love / Rosemary Standley Ensemble [LP]

A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey, the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste. (Alpha)

1LP# ALPHA865 $24.99

Korngold: String Quartets, Nos. 2 & 3 / Alma Quartet [LP]

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s three string quartets are surely masterpieces and can be seen as modern tone poems imbued with beautiful melancholy and Viennese charm. (Challenge)

1LP# CCLP 72868 $34.99

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 – Symphony No. 9 [LP]

Shostakovich’s (first) piano concerto features impressive pianistic virtuosity, bold experimentation, satire, and caricatures of different musical styles. (BR Klassik)

1LP# BRK900204 $39.99

Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 [3 LPs]

Sir Charles MacKerras’s accounts of Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 are torrentially vivid, as performed by the superb Prague Symphony Orchestra under his baton. (Supraphon)

3LP# SU4301-1 $85.99