Leonard Elschenbroich – Brahms Cello Sonatas
Leonard Elschenbroich
When the red light in Studio 2 at the famous Abbey Road Studios came on at the start of the recording sessions for Elschenbroich’s and Grynyuk’s latest ONYX recording, the control room had a very different atmosphere. The recording was made using analogue technology – tape recorders, vintage microphones, and longer takes. At no point was the recorded material subjected to a digital process.
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Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Following on from their highly acclaimed cycle of the 9 Vaughan Williams symphonies, Andrew Manze and the RLPO have recorded a spectacular Job, taken from a live performance at the famed Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. RVW’s inspiration for Job arose from William Blake’s illustrations for The Book of Job, a collection of water colours from 1805, and the later engravings from 1822.
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Domingo Hindoyan: Debussy, Dukas, Roussel
Domingo Hindoyan
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Rachmaninov’s ten chamber works, two left incomplete, all date from his twenties. The most widely performed and best known is the Cello Sonata.
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Rachmaninov: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2, Cello Sonata
Pavel Gomziakov
Domingo Hindoyan’s exciting programme of French repertoire includes early and
late orchestral masterpieces by Debussy, Roussel’s sumptuous and brilliantly scored 2nd ballet suite from Bacchus et Ariadne, and the rarely heard and spectacular La Péri, subtitled Poème Dansé by the highly self-critical but brilliant Dukas.
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135
Ehnes Quartet
The final volume in the critically acclaimed set of recordings by the Ehnes Quartet of the late quartets of Beethoven. Gramophone magazine said of the Op.130 & 133 album ONYX4199: ‘It’s many a year since I’ve heard string quartet playing that’s more sheerly beautiful than this’.
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