01.02.2026

The album by the Boston Early Music Festival & Chamber Ensembles featuring works by Georg Philipp Telemann, including the cantata “Ino,” wins the Grammy 2026 in the category Best Classical Solo Vocal Album! https://www.grammy.com/news/2026-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list 

"This is the perfect Telemann recording, which anyone involved in this repertoire should listen to. Highly recommended!" (Klassik heute)

"Gramophone Editor's Choice: January 2025 | The best new classical recordings"

"Amanda Forsythe and the orchestra of the Boston Earlyy Music Festival conjure exceptional stylish elegance and theatrical vitality in the flowing sequence of orchestrally accompanied recitatives, ariosos, dances and arias."

Amanda Forsythe, Robert Mealy, Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

Label: CPO

The CD has been recorded in the Sendesaal Bremen.

Recording producer: Karola Parry
Sound engineer : Siegbert Ernst
Technician: Jan Stahlmann

22.01.2026

World Premiere Recording: On January 22, 2026, the Symphoniker Hamburg will release a new CD featuring works by composer Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933).

Ziling Guo, violin
Symphoniker Hamburg
Ulrich Windfuhr, conductor

Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 88

Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 92

Following in the footsteps of his distant “great-uncle” Felix, Arnold Mendelssohn (1853–1933) achieved high esteem, especially in the field of Protestant church music, in which his famous relative had already distinguished himself. In contrast, his serious engagement with the classical-romantic instrumental genres did not begin until the First World War, as if the composer wanted to reassure himself of tradition before the old structures collapsed. He was already approaching his seventies when he wrote his violin concerto and, immediately afterwards, the second of his three symphonies – two witty masquerades whose broad spectrum between expressive meditation and cheerful finale offers plenty of room for reminiscences, but never leads to imitation: the man who juggles with symbols is not at the mercy of the past. He masters it with confidence.

Label: CPO

Recording producer: Karola Parry
Technician: Ruth Günther