latest recording

Mahler's 8th Symphony

For its final concert of the 2021–22 season and Osmo Vänskä’s last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler’s mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a symbol of the communitarian spirit of collective cultural, social and religious-philosophical endeavour in what has been referred to as a ‘Mass for the Masses’. 

The album is out now. Physical copies available to pre-order now via Presto Music

2024 release

Handel's Dixit Dominus

Released in April 2024, physical copies available to pre-order now via Presto Music

100th recording

But I Like to Sing

After many acclaimed releases on BIS, most recently ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs – A Shakespeare Songbook’ (BIS-2653), Carolyn Sampson’s latest recital with Joseph Middleton lives up to its name: it is an eloquent testimony to the English soprano’s love of her art.

The album is out now. Physical copies available to pre-order now via Presto Music

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'An den Schlaf' by Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer

Recorded at St Silas Church, Kentish Town, London UK with Kristian Bezuidenhout at the fortepiano. Filmed by Andrew Mellor from AJM Productions in March 2022.

Wigmore Hall 2021

Clara Schumann Liebeszauber Op. 13 No. 3 performed at Wigmore Hall, London 2021

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Oxford Lieder Festival, October 2020

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From the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Tiny becomes grand in The Recital Hall. Great lyrics describing the undiscribable, an enchanting melody and a heavenly voice who brings it all together.