STUDIO SECRETS
We reveal who’s recording what, and where
A disc of Martin∞ piano trios recently won Supraphon the BBC Music Magazine Chamber Award, and there’s plenty more of the Czech composer coming up from this Czech label. This June, soprano Martina Janková, baritone Tomá≥ Král and pianist Ivo Kahánek head to Prague’s Martin∞ Hall to record his songs.
After scooping the BBC Music Magazine Choral Award this year for their disc of Jonathan Harvey, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge and Andrew Nethsingha have turned to another British composer. They’ve recorded an all-vaughan Williams programme, including the Mass in G minor, for release on their own label.
The world premiere of Shostakovich’s complete original music for the 1955 film The
Gadfly (Ovod) has been made in Ludwigshafen, Germany for Naxos. It’s been recorded by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-pfalz and the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Mark Fitz-gerald.
Onyx Brass has been recording British fanfares at London’s St Jude’s Church for Chandos Records. The disc focuses on 20th-century pieces by Arnold, Howells, Imogen Holst, Bax, Coates, Wood, Bliss and Lutyens.
The Rued Langgaard renaissance continues, thanks to the Dacapo label. The Vienna Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo have recorded the Second Symphony with soprano Anu Komsi, with plans to record the Sixth and an excerpt from the 14th next year.