We reveal who’s recording what and where...
Saxophonist Huw Wiggin and pianist Noriko Ogawa popped along to St Paul’s, Knightsbridge in late August to record a swathe of newly commissioned works.
Their album for Orchid Classics features music by Joseph Phibbs, Jennifer Watson and Iain Farrington, along with Farrington’s arrangement of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Look out for it next year.
Also in the studio in August were pianist Antony Gray and the St Paul’s Sinfonia, along with other soloists, who gathered to perform works by the Australian composer John Carmichael (b1930). The album features a variety of works including his Piano Concerto No. 2 and is scheduled for release in early 2023 on Divine Art.
Karl Jenkins was commissioned by the World Choir for Peace to write One World, which the choir has recorded with the Orchestra for World Peace plus special guest performers Roderick Williams, Kathryn Rudge, Lucy Crowe and members of the
Stay At Home Choir. Decca will release the recording in June, when the work receives its world premiere performance in Hanover.
The English Concert delivered acclaimed performances of Handel’s Serse and Solomon this year, the latter in a spellbinding performance at the BBC Proms. Both works are to be available as recordings on Linn Records, with the current plan seeing Serse released in 2023 and Solomon in 2024. Look out for more details of these recordings soon.
Alim Beisembayev’s 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition win still lingers in the memory, so it’s great to know that his first studio album is just around the corner. The Kazakhstan-born pianist recorded works by Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Prokofiev and Liszt at St Jude on the Hill in London, for the album which will be released on Warner Classics in December.