As many people are beginning to emerge from lockdown, small gatherings are being allowed. Whereas it may be exhausting for a number of the musicians to stay the required 6 toes aside, we discovered a number of musical selections this previous month that match the necessities of cautious social interplay. Clearly, Bach’s solo Cello Suites are a superb place to begin, not too long ago recorded by Alisa Weilerstein. Trevor Pinnock performs on harpsichord with the primary quantity of Bach’s Properly-Tempered Clavier, and there’s solo piano music by Thomas Adès and César Franck. A number of recitals — that includes songs by Rachmaninov, songs transcribed for viola, and extra — would additionally work. We additionally sampled chamber variations of some of Beethoven’s symphonies and Holst’s Cloud Messenger, though these start to stretch the rules of authorities, however listening to any of those selections by yourself is all the time welcome.

Bach Choir, BBC Live performance Orchestra, David Hill – Howells: Missa Sabrinensis
Fabrice Bollon, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg – Magnard: Orchestral Works
Han Chen – Thomas Adès: Works for Solo Piano
Compagnia di Punto – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (Preparations by Ries & Ebers)
Francesco Corti, Il Pomo d’Oro – Bach: Harpsichord Concertos
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Daniel Kawka – Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans Maître; Philippe Manoury: B-Partita
Arthur Fagen, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Morton Gould: Symphonettes Nos. 2-4; Spirituals for Orchestra
Véronique Gens, I Giardini – Nuits
Jonathan Griffith, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Messiah … Refreshed!
Antonio Chen Guang – Bach, Brahms, Berg
Stephen Hough, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo – Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”
Choir of King’s School London, Strand Ensemble, Joseph Fort – Holst: The Cloud Messenger (Chamber Model)
Cecile Licad, South Denmark Philharmonic, Gerard Salonga – Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 4: George Gershwin
Christian Lindberg, Arctic Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies 1 & 2 – Jeremiah, The Age of Anxiousness
Nikolai Lugansky – César Franck: Preludes, Fugues & Chorals
La Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris – Notre-Dame: Cathédrale d’Émotions
Denis Matsuev – Shostakovich, Schnittke, Lutoslawski
Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Gamers – Purcell: The Fairy Queen, 1692
Michael McHale, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson – Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Vol. 4
Caroline Mutel, Karine Deshayes – François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres, Paris, 1714
Nash Ensemble – Clara Schumann: Piano Trio; Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios; String Quartet
David Nebel, Kristjan Järvi – Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass: Violin Concertos
Tomás Netopil, Essener Philharmoniker – Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
Roger Norrington, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR – Ludwig van Beethoven: Full Symphonies
Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen – Luciano Berio: Coro; Cries of London
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, Anne Sofie von Otter – PBO & Caroline Shaw
Trevor Pinnock – J.S. Bach: The Properly-Tempered Clavier 1
Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake – Paradise Misplaced
Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen- Mozart: Concertos pour Piano Nos. 22 & 24
Natalya Romaniw, Lada Valesová – Arion: Voyage of a Slavic Soul
Maxim Rysanov, Sinfonietta Riga – Peteris Vasks: Viola Concerto; String Symphony ‘Voices’
Lan Shui, Singapore Symphony Orchestra – Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite; Tod und Verklärung; Macbeth
Lori Sims, Andrew Rathbun, Jeremy Siskind – Impressions of Debussy
Julia Sitkovetsky, Roger Vignoles – Rachmaninov: Songs
Sitkovetsky Trio – Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 1 – Op. 1/3 & Op. 70/2
Dima Slobodeniouk. Lahti Symphony Orchestra – Prokofiev: Suites from the Gambler & the Story of the Stone Flower
Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty, Canine of Need, David Alan Miller – Michael Daugherty: This Land Sings
Karim Sulayman, Yi-heng Yang – The place Solely Stars Can Hear Us: Schubert Songs
Tenebrae, Nigel Brief – Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres; Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
Christian Thielemann, Camilla Nylund, Stephen Gould – Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Tippett Quartet – Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 ‘…Songs are Sung’
Numerous Artists – Mark Abel: The Cave of Wondrous Voice
Numerous Artists – New Chamber Works: Anna Meredith, Alexander Goehr, Colin Matthews
Voces8 – After Silence: III. Redemption
Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve – Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel
Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – John Adams: Should the Satan Have All of the Good Tunes?
Alisa Weilerstein – Bach
Moist Ink – Alex Mincek: Glossolalia; Sam Pluta: Traces on Black
Tabea Zimmermann, Javier Perianes – Cantilena