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    Classical Highlights for September 2025


    What is in the current batch of new albums deemed by our reviewers as worthy of a listen? There’s a recording of Mozart’s music sung by baritone Georg Nigl accompanied by Alexander Gergelyfi on a clavichord owned by Mozart himself. The vocal ensemble Gesualdo Six (pictured) put together another outstanding program on its new album Radiant Dawn. A somewhat dramatic presentation of Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas is given by pianist Javier Perianes, while the Miró Quartet surveys the music of Albert Ginastera and tenor Nicky Spence sings rarely heard Czech art songs.

    Thomas Adès, Hallé – Thomas Adès: Shanty; Dawn; Tower – for Frank Gehry; Aquifer; Oliver Leith: Cartoon Sun; William Mars
    Apollo Chamber Players – Ban: Stories of Censorship
    Avi Avital, Between Worlds – Song of the Birds
    Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1; Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost”; Op. 11 “Gassenhauer”
    Brian Balkwill, Edith Coates, Edward Byles – Grace Williams: The Parlour
    Rachel Barton Pine, Pacifica Quartet, Orion Weiss – French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre
    Frieder Bernius, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart – Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Gratias agimus tibi
    Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante – Locatelli: 6 Introduttioni Teatrali
    Sarah Cahill – Birds & Insects: Arlene Sierra, Vol. 4
    Can Çakmur – Schubert + Beethoven
    Federico Colli – Mozart, Vol. 2
    Continuum Ensemble, Timothy Long – Brian Current: MISSING
    Marianne Crebassa, Anna Prohaska, George Benjamin – Picture a day like this
    Alena Dantcheva, Yannick Debus, Il Gusto Barocco, Jörg Halubek – Antonia Bembo: L’Ercole amante
    Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev – Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
    Eva Maria Doroszkowska – Baltic Tides: Lūcija Garūta, Ester Mägi
    Gustavo Dudamel, Alisa Weilerstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic – Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga
    Ember – Birds of Paradise
    Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, James Weeks – Chromatic Renaissance
    Lisa Friend, Rohan De Silva – An American Affair: American Works for Flute
    Silvia Frigato, Andrea De Carlo, Ensemble Mare Nostrum – Alessandro Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso – The Orrigoni Songbook
    Rumon Gamba, Oulu Sinfonia – Pictures from Finland
    Sophie Gent, Kathleen Kajioka, Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin – Bach, Telemann, Albinoni: Concerti
    Jess Gillam, Jess Gillam Ensemble – PRISM, Vol. 2
    David Goode – Mozart: Organ Works – Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
    Mak Grgic, Mateusz Kowalski – Slavic Sessions
    Haitham Haidar – Zaytoun
    Linda Hirst, Diego Masson, London Sinfonietta – Songs Cathy Sang: Music Composed for the Voice of Cathy Berberian
    Martin Jones – Piano Music of Camargo Guarnieri
    Jonas Kaufmann – Schumann: Dichterliebe & Kerner-Lieder
    Anastasia Kobekina – Bach
    Yunchan Lim – Tchaikovsky: The Seasons
    Laura Lootens – Diabolico
    Maya Magub, Matthew Schellhorn – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Characteristic Waltzes
    Samuel Mariño – Lumina
    Monika Mauch, Ulrike Malotta, L’Arpa Festante, Thomas Gropper – Carl Loewe: Hiob
    Steffan Morris, Alasdair Beatson – Brahms: Cello Sonatas; Stanford: Ballata
    Kent Nagano, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg – Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
    Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott – Shostakovich: Cello Sonata; Impromptu; Viola Sonata
    Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra – William Grant Still: Symphonies Nos 2 & No. 4; Margaret Bond: The Montegomery Variations
    Georg Nigl, Alexander Gergelyfi – Mozart’s Clavichord: Arias, Lieder and Keyboard Pieces
    Gianandrea Noseda, Vitalij Kowaljow, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar”
    Orchestra of the Swan – Light and Shadow
    Christopher O’Riley – J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
    Javier Perianes – Scarlatti
    The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Simon Jackson – Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks
    Alan Pierson, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Silvana Quartet – Mary Kouyoumdjian: Adoration
    Franziska Pietsch, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Jonathan Pasternack – Tides of Dance
    Francis Poulenc – Poulenc Plays Poulenc and Satie
    Professor Girlfriend – My Mother in Love: The Summer Sessions
    Gilbert Rowland – Johann Jakob Froberger: Suites for Harpsichord, Vol. 4
    Charlie Siem, Philharmonia Orchestra, Oleg Caetani – Brahms and Enescu
    Signum Quartett – A Dark Flaring: Works for String Quartet from South Africa
    Sollazzo Ensemble – Leuven Chansonnier, Vol. 3 & 4: Le Cueur vous demeure
    Sphinx Virtuosi – American Mirror
    Hansjacob Staemmler, Muriel Cantoreggi, Johannes Erkes, Juris Teichmanis – Franz Xaver Mozart: Piano Quartet, Op. 1; Violin Sonatas, Opp. 7 & 15
    St. Martin’s Voices, Andrew Eari – Lucy Walker: Choral Works
    St. Martin’s Voices, Andrew Earis – Ned Rorem: Choral Works
    John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Choir – Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 and 3 ‘The First of May’; Two Scherzos
    Manami Suzuki – Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Szymanowski
    La Tempête, Simon-Pierre Bestion – Orlando: A Melancholic Portrait
    Various Artists – Tobias Picker: Nova
    Debbie Wiseman – Ten: Memories for Solo Piano
    Yuval Zorn – Masques Images Hommages: Rameau, Szymanowski, Debussy



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