Studio secrets
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Delphian Records has a busy January ahead, with recordings in Bristol, London and Tenerife. The Bristol Choral Society heads to St George’s to record works by Bob Chilcott, Judith Weir, Jonathan Dove and Celia Mcdowall, while in London the label makes its first recording with the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace. In Tenerife, clarinettist Maximiliano Martin records concertos by Copland, Nielsen and Macmillan.
Composer Jonny Greenwood has launched his own contemporary classical label. Octatonic has already begun streaming its first releases, including Bach’s Partita No. 2 played by violinist Daniel Pioro. Greenwood’s own short works will also feature on Octatonic, with Water just released alongside Michael Gordon’s Industry.
The DVD and Blu-ray release this month of a new feature documentary about the life and music of George Butterworth follows a short cinema run. The film, All My Life’s Buried Here, uses recently uncovered archive materials to illuminate Butterworth’s story and features newly recorded performances by baritone Roderick Williams.
Paul Lewis’s Beethoven recordings for Harmonia Mundi are released in a celebratory box set this month. It features Lewis’s takes on the complete piano sonatas and concertos (with Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra), plus the Diabelli Variations. The pianist will also release his first ever recording of the complete Bagatelles next summer.
More Beethoven piano concertos follow next autumn, this time from Jean-efflam Bavouzet. He records the five concertos for Chandos this month, directing the Swedish Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard.
Next year also sees further explorations of the Haydn sonatas from Bavouzet, plus his next album of Mozart concertos for the label coming in March.