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First in a new series of reviews on AudioDaily. "Off The Shelf" - a fresh look at albums that have been gathering dust on my shelves of CDs and LPs. Starting with a great pairing of Beethoven Violin Sonatas.
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Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer's Beethoven Violin Sonatas (1987) Revisited - AudioDaily
A recording for the ages: the firebrand soloist reinvents herself as a collaborator, Argerich meets Kremer as an equal, and they throw off sparks.
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July 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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I've added tracks from several new and upcoming New Music and standard repertoire releases to the #Atmos100 playlist over the last few days. Updates logged on the main page at AudioDaily:
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Have a look, you'll find some good listens!
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Our top 100 new classical albums in Dolby Atmos spatial audio, live playlist updated daily, follow at Apple Music and Apple Music Classical.
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August 6, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Here is one of the great Beethoven recordings of all time, now available in Dolby Atmos. Will you believe you're in the concert hall with the Vienna Philharmonic. I think so!
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Carlos Kleiber's Iconic Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 Are Remastered Again, Now in Atmos - AudioDaily
These recordings have been electrifying listeners for fifty years, and DG keeps upping the digital voltage. Spatial audio doesn't change the performance, but it pulls you right into the concert hall.
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July 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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For part two of today’s playlist on AudioDaily, an American pianist‘s epic project brings 76 composers together in new music exploring what it means to be American today. It makes for compelling listening, from Stewart Copeland to George Lewis.
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Playlist July 4, 2026 (pt.2): Min Kwon's America/Beautiful - AudioDaily
Pianist Min Kwon coaxed 76 American composers to contribute a piano variation apiece on the familiar patriotic tune "America the Beautiful", with striking results
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July 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Today’s playlist features recent releases from Montreal’s Analekta label, a champion of Canadian music and musicians since 1988, and still leading the way today.
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Daily Playlist July 8, 2026: Canada's Analekta Label Shines in Recent Orchestral Releases - AudioDaily
Recent releases from Canada's Analekta label, where Canadian orchestras, Canadian soloists and Canadian composers get first-class treatment.
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July 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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Atmos This Week, new Spatial Audio releases due on Friday, with my take on what makes each of them worth a listen.

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Atmos This Week August 31 2026 - AudioDaily
New Dolby Atmos spatial audio releases this week include Monteverdi's Vespers, rediscovered British music, Pictures at an Exhibition, and piano works by Chopin and Prokofiev.
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September 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Are you ready for the onslaught of new Christmas music releases to begin? Ready or not... Signum is first out the gate with 2 choir albums. Plenty of regular fare in Spatial Audio arrives this week as well. All the details are now online...

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Atmos This Week October 2 2026 - AudioDaily
new spatial audio releases, week of Oct. 2, including Daniil Trifonov's Mi Historia Americana (Sud), and Christophe Rousset's Messiah with the English Baroque Soloists.
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September 28, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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Here’s a new album that took me by surprise: Gerald Finzi’s big choral works, brought into the English church music sphere in excellent new adaptations. Trinity College Choir in great form! Just out on Hyperion.
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Trinity College Choir Returns to Finzi With New Organ Versions of Choral Works - AudioDaily
Three of Gerald Finzi's major choral works, rescaled for soloists, choir and organ, turn out to be the surprise Sunday-morning album of the summer... and the center of gravity isn't the Requiem — it's...
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July 20, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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I'm curious to see what Gustavo Dudamel will be doing in the "first ever halftime show at a FIFA World Cup finals" tomorrow. The show is “Curated by my dear friend Chris Martin" [of Coldplay] according to Dudamel. Maybe something like this? (but probably not).
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Gustavo Dudamel - Márquez: Danzón No. 2 (Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, BBC Proms)
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July 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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This week's Release Reel playlist is up, with stories and video clips that add some flavour around this week's new releases, including Lise Davidsen, Lucas Debargue, Francesco Piemontesi, and Mishka Momen. Enjoy!

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Release Reel: Behind the Scenes of This Week's New Spatial Releases (September 11 2026) - AudioDaily
Concert and studio videos of classical soloists and ensembles releasing new recordings in spatial audio this week, from Verdi opera to medieval and early music.
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September 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Daily Playlist for July 1 Canada Day! A couple of great recent releases by leading Canadian artists: Jan Lisiecki (piano), Andrew Wan (violin), Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano). Celebrate!
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Playlist July 1, 2026: Canada Day with Andrew Wan, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Jan Lisiecki - AudioDaily
To celebrate Canada Day July 1, here are a couple of new releases featuring leading Canadian artists that have caught my eye recently
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July 1, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Today's playlist, how Edgard Varèse invented electronic music... 25 years before it was even possible. From Ionisation to Poème Électronique.
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Electrifying Edgard Varèse, From Ionisation to Poème Électronique - AudioDaily
Edgard Varèse imagined computer and tape music before the technology existed, hear his pioneering compositions culminating in Poème électronique.
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July 31, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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The first in my new series "Off The Shelf" where I dig out a classic CD or LP from my collection, and see how it stands up in our all-streaming new world...
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Playlist July 5, 2026: Martha Argerich and Friends - AudioDaily
Argerich starter her career as a fiery virtuoso piano soloist, but as she matured as an artist she became a collaborator, sticking mostly to chamber music and concerto repertoire.
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July 5, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Is opera dead or alive? A great new book by Martha Nussbaum, "Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom", tells us that opera is more relevant today than ever - Timothee Chalamet be damned! Today's Daily Playlist makes the point in music.
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What Do Mozart's Classic Operas Mean To Us Today - AudioDaily
Martha Nussbaum's great new book Republic of Love: Opera & Political Freedom tells us that opera is more relevant today than ever... and here's the music to prove it
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July 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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This week's capsule reviews of new Spatial Audio streaming releases arriving Friday is posted, check it out for access to pre-release tracks and background info.

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Atmos This Week, September 11 2026 - AudioDaily
New Dolby Atmos spatial audio releases this week including Lisa Davidsen in Verdi arias, Lucas Debargue's double-album take on Gershwin, and Machaut greatest hits from Chanticleer.
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September 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Catch up with the latest info and drops from Igor Levit's new NO SILENCE label. Including Atmos singles with Levit (Satie Gymnopedie No. 1) and Lukas Sternath (Schubert-Liszt). Plus: Vexations!
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Igor Levit is In The News and Offers No Silence - AudioDaily
AudioDaily's first look at Igor Levit's new No Silence label, with video of the first singles, featuring Lukas Sternath as well as Levit.
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August 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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If you haven’t heard HIMARI, you need to catch up! Just turned 15, she has a major label contract and debuts with half a dozen of the world’s best orchestras to her credit. Today’s playlist tells the story so far: plus a rant I couldn’t avoid!
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Playlist July 11 2026: Is Teenage Violin Phenom Himari the Real Deal? - AudioDaily
She took Berlin by storm at age 13, and her debut EP proved that the dazzle is no fluke. So why is Decca introducing this once-in-a-generation violinist ten minutes at a time?
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July 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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I’m only half kidding when I suggest that Daniil Trifonov seems to be following in Glenn Gould’s footsteps… into an obsession with the recording studio as instrument. But yeah… kiddIng. His new piano ”single,” just dropped today, is a breakthrough all the same: see the review.
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Daily Playlist July 24 2026: Daniil Trifonov Brings a Ray of Light to the Singles Scene - AudioDaily
Trifonov does a Glenn Gould (or is it a Max Richter?) and makes the recording studio his instrument, with his inventive transformation of The Last of Us into a multitracked, remixed piano miniature. I...
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July 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Alex Ross has retired as Music Critic at The New Yorker, and I will miss his regular writings. My playlist today is music I thought about when I heard the news.
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Playlist July 2, 2026: For Alex Ross, The Music Critic of Our Time - AudioDaily
Over more than 30 years at The New Yorker, Alex Ross has been the dean of music critics writing in the English language, covering the whole world of concert music.
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July 2, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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Stephen Hough's Piano Postcards album of transcriptions, encore pieces and miniatures has finally arrived in full from Hyperion, and it has been worth the wait. This is great piano playing full of character and colour. Don't miss it!
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Stephen Hough Sends Us a Stack of Piano Postcards, But He's Not Mailing It In - AudioDaily
Hough's own transcriptions lead the way in this glittering collection of short character pieces and encores: his Mary Poppins Suite alone is worth the price of admission
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July 24, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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I'm puzzled at the lack of attention John Dowland is getting in this 400th year since his death in 1626. Weren't we expecting a slew of album releases and performances? Today's playlist is a starting point. Let me know what you think of the new format!
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Daily Playlist July 21 2026: Catching Up With Dowland 400 - AudioDaily
It's not your fault if you haven't noticed any recorded celebrations of the 400th anniversary of John Dowland's death in 1626, it has been a muted commemoration at best. Start here...
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July 22, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Review posted. Charlotte Hu vs Alicia de Larrocha?
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Charlotte Hu Follows Her Own Path Through Granados Goyescas - AudioDaily
Where Larrocha spun a folkloric travelogue, Charlotte Hu takes us on a languorous journey in the hot sun. A sumptuous, colour-drenched Goyescas that steers its own course.
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June 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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I keep meaning to focus more on the latest releases, but I seem to have fallen down the nostalgia rabbit hole lately, trotting out my all-time library favorites. I'm not sure what that tells you, but here's another one and it's a corker!
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Ileana Cotrubas Still Defines Violetta for the Ages in DG's Latest Remaster of La Traviata - AudioDaily
The 2024 Atmos remaster of this all-time great Traviata opens the soundstage, but the main attraction is still soprano Ileana Cotrubas, a Violetta of blazing passion, exposed nerves and heartbreaking ...
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July 12, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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I'm a long-time fan of Katia and Marielle Labèque, so I'm happy to have their new anniversary collection and retrospective. It's a really thoughtful summary of their preoccupations over a distinguished career, almost half new recordings. Check it out!
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Katia & Marielle Labèque Trace a Wild Career Through 55 Years and 55 Tracks - AudioDaily
Fifty-five years after Olivier Messiaen "discovered" two teenage pianists in a practise room at the Conservatoire, the Labèque sisters map their whole recording life across three discs: yes, this is t...
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July 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Decision time: do I still need my much-played CD copy of Herbert von Karajan’s 1980 recording of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie)? Or can I happily toss it, as I weed out the collection, and rely on streaming services going forward?

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Off The Shelf: Do I Still Need My 1993 CD of Karajan's Strauss Alpine Symphony? - AudioDaily
The recording that launched the compact disc era is now streaming in Dolby Atmos. It's time to pull my copy off the shelf and decide whether the much-loved original CD has finally been made redundant ...
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August 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM