Donizetti 24

Venetian baritone Daniel di Prinzio and guitarist Ihor Kordiuk present a very special programme here: Profumi di Napoli. It consists of a selection of typical and traditional Neapolitan songs, so-called ‘canzoni’, which are skilfully interwoven here with Mauro Giuliani’s (1781–1829) cycle Choix de mes fleurs chéries (‘Selection of my favourite flowers’) Op. 46 for solo guitar.

After moving from New York to London during the 2020 lockdown, Peter started collaborating with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He recorded his Naxos album "A Journey" with them as a conductor and piano soloist, and just recently (September 2022), he conducted the RPO in a Dolby Atmos/Dolby Vision video recording of three Stravinsky ballets (Rite of Spring, Petroushka, Firebird) for the OnAir video streaming company. Collaboration with a prominent UK label Orchid Classics/Blue Cloud starts in August 2024 with a release of yet another solo piano album, Aria.

Venetian baritone Daniel di Prinzio and guitarist Ihor Kordiuk present a very special programme here: Profumi di Napoli. It consists of a selection of typical and traditional Neapolitan songs, so-called ‘canzoni’, which are skilfully interwoven here with Mauro Giuliani’s (1781–1829) cycle Choix de mes fleurs chéries (‘Selection of my favourite flowers’) Op. 46 for solo guitar.

After moving from New York to London during the 2020 lockdown, Peter started collaborating with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He recorded his Naxos album "A Journey" with them as a conductor and piano soloist, and just recently (September 2022), he conducted the RPO in a Dolby Atmos/Dolby Vision video recording of three Stravinsky ballets (Rite of Spring, Petroushka, Firebird) for the OnAir video streaming company. Collaboration with a prominent UK label Orchid Classics/Blue Cloud starts in August 2024 with a release of yet another solo piano album, Aria.

With delights from composers such as Sir Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams, performances from UK classical artists including Dame Sarah Connolley and Ian Bostridge, and stunning works evocative of the great British landscape, British Classical Selections offers an eclectic insight into classical repertoire from and about Great Britain. This compilation is the first in a series of country focused selections, including selections from France and Germany.

London Concertante presents a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, performing works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart. Enjoy some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Così fan tutte and so much more.

International lawyer by day and piano virtuoso by night, Paul Wee made his recording début in 2019 with some of the most technically demanding piano music there is: Alkan’s Symphony and Concerto for solo piano. He now returns with music which presents a different, but not lesser challenge: how make the keyboard sing. The piano is by nature a percussive instrument – the sound is created by little hammers falling on strings. To create a true legato – or the illusion of it – has been the aim of generations of pianists, but few have taken the matter as far as Sigismond Thalberg.

Borrowing from the title of Proust’s great novel, the latest recital by Imogen Cooper features a collection of pieces that she learnt as a teenager in Paris, or in her twenties working with Alfred Brendel in Vienna, but none of which she has performed on the concert platform, or really played at all in the intervening years.

Consolations is Saskia Giorgini’s second Liszt album, after her critically-acclaimed rendition of the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Named after Liszt’s six Consolations, the album also contains the Caprices-Valses, Valse Impromptu, Légendes and the world-famous Liebesträume. These introspective pieces shed light on love in all its forms and manifestations, showing us human nature in all its different aspects, as well as a different side of Liszt’s colourful musical persona.

The youngest musician ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, exciting American cellist Zlatomir Fung has collated an album of opera fantasies including Fantasy on Jenůfa which he arranged himself and a Fantasy written especially for him - Fantasia Carmèn - by composer Marshall Estrin.