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Pianist Sarah Cahill has recorded a threevolume set called The Future is Female. The project sees her perform works by 70 women from around the world and from the 18th century to the present. Sessions took place at St Stephen’s Church in Belvedere, California, with Vol. 1 – ‘In Nature’ – to be released on the FHR label in March.
Robert Levin is set to finish his ambitious Mozart project begun in 1993. The pianist set out to record all of the composer’s music for piano and orchestra with the Academy of Ancient Music, but the Decca series ended prematurely in 2000. AAM Records will finish the job, with recordings now under way and plans to release in 2023/24.
Resonus Classics celebrates its tenth anniversary with a couple of new projects. Three rising stars join Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and Joseph Middleton for Brahms’s Liebesleider Waltzes Opp 52 and 65, out this month, while Spring will see the release of an album of unpublished and unrecorded works by Barber, recorded this summer at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Nicky Spence has also been in the studio for Hyperion, Alpha Classics and Signum Classics. He joins pianist Julius Drake again for Hyperion’s recording of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge – scheduled for release in February. For Alpha he appears in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito (out in March) and for Signum he has recorded Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Christopher Glynn (out in May).
Dutch ensemble Alma Quartet undertook a direct-to-vinyl recording at Haarlem’s Artone Studio earlier this year. Capturing a studio ambience and the essence of a live performance, the recording of Korngold’s String Quartets Nos 2 and 3 is scheduled for release by Challenge Classics in November. Two further volumes are set to follow.