Conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in rarely heard works by Ukrainian composers Mykola Lysenko, Levko Kolodub, Borys Liatoshynsky, and Fedir Yakymenko. The music on Ukrainian Mixtape reflects different voices and generations of Ukrainian composers, each of them contributing a distinct perspective to the country’s unique cultural landscape. “The motivation to create this album, my Ukrainian Mixtape, was …

Pioneering twentieth-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s vibrant and dynamic musical language bridges the gap between neoclassicism and modernism. This second volume of conductor Sakari Oramo’s Bacewicz series features three rarely recorded works. The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was written in 1949 for the Frédéric Chopin Composers’ Competition, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union to commemorate the centenary of Chopin’s …

Goodyear’s new recording features some of the greatest works in the repertory: the Op. 16 and Op. 26 Piano Concertos, as well as the Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat. According to his note in the CD booklet, the recording of this album, with its roots in the struggles of the 2020 pandemic, is inherently personal to Goodyear, as …