May is ARTS-month

Get your purses out and check your bank accounts - ARTS is presenting a slate of new releases set to fascinate the curious.

Let's start with the most tempting offering: Claude Debussys "L'enfant prodigue" directed by famous Belgian-turned-French conductor Andre Cluytens. Obviously an Archive-treasure, this masterpiece features three prominent voices: Soprano Jeanine Micheau, Bariton Pierre Mollet and Tenor Michel Senechal and the Rai-Orchestra from Turin. The CD furthermore features a rendition of Honeggers third symphony - a one-off for Cluytens and therefore a certain collectors-item.

Who better to approach for a complete recording of Bartholdys string quartets than, well, the Bartholdy-Quartett. For almost 40 years, the ensemble has presented brilliant interpretations of various works in concert halls as well as on TV and radio and their historic and timeless performance drom 1973 has now been brought up-to-date by a 24bit remaster and is available for purchase as a three-CD box.

And finally, a further World premiere recording will be sold as a beatiful two-CD set: Leonardo Leos Cello Concertos Nos 1-6 with Arturo Benucci taking pole position. The press has already praised these recordings enough, so we don't want to waste more words on them. Essential listening.

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