We reveal who’s recording what, and where…
Deutsche Grammophon, which celebrates its 120th birthday this year, continues to add some big artists to its roster. Just announced is the exclusive signing of conductor Yannick Nézet-séguin who, in addition to major posts in Philadelphia and Montréal, not to mention the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, is soon to begin as music director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. His new contract with the ‘Yellow Label’ will see recordings with all of the ensembles, including a new cycle of Rachmaninov symphonies and piano concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra and pianist Daniil Trifonov.
China’s oldest orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony, and conductor Long Yu have also signed with DG ahead of the ensemble’s own 140th anniversary. A first release, of Chinese and Russian repertoire, is due in 2019.
The Jubilee Quartet are set to visit Potton Hall in Su olk to record an album of Haydn quartets for Rubicon this month. No sooner have they le than their parking space will be occupied by soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton, who will be recording a selection of English songs for BIS.
ARS (Archive of Recorded Sound) recently announced the licensing of unissued EMI Stereo recordings to First Hand Records, which will be released this summer. They include a 1954 recording of Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel by the LSO and Norman
Del Mar, and Saint-saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1 by Paul Tortelier and the Philharmonia under Herbert Menges.
DONNE, a project championing women composers’ equality launched on International Women’s Day this year by soprano Gabriella Di Laccio, has been given funding to record five albums of music by women composers. The releases will feature repertoire from across a variety of genres, including several world premieres.