We reveal who’s recording what and where...
Organist Anna Lapwood is something of a Tiktok sensation since becoming an associate artist at the Royal Albert Hall. Her late-night exploits at the RAH’S organ console have won her many new fans and, now, a recording contract with Sony Classical. Lapwood, also director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, releases a five-track
EP in April, to be followed by a full album (recorded in February) later this year.
Lorelt Records recently marked its 30th anniversary and shows no signs of slowing down, with a handful of new releases on the horizon. Landing in the Spring is piano music by Fanny Mendelssohn and chamber music by Charles Shadle, while Samantha Ege and Lontano take to the studio in June to record Carwithen’s Piano Concerto, scheduled for release in October.
Alpha Classics’s new series ‘Piano Stories’ aims to give a platform to up-and-coming young pianists. The series will see four new album releases each year and is off to a fine start with Lumen by Camille El Bacha already out and April’s release of Meeting My Shadow by Giorgi Gigashvili. Juliette Journaux follows in September with her album Wanderer Without Words.
German pianist Martin Helmchen has recorded all of JS Bach’s Partitas on a Tangent piano. He made his recordings in September and January at Berlin’s Haus des Rundfunks on the instrument, which was found boxedup in an attic after 200 years. Helmchen’s recording is set for release in the Autumn, also on Alpha Classics.
Late Autumn will also see the release, on FHR, of (b)romance, the second duo album from cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown. The pair recorded at the Oktaven Audio studio in Mount Vernon, NY in January and laid down an eclectic selection of works by the likes of Copland, Clara Schumann and Debussy.