Borletti-Buitoni Trust
BBT Artists
Rewarding Musical Excellence
Richard Fu piano
Leoš Janáček, arr. Zlatomir Fung
Fantasy on Jenůfa
Adrien-François Servais
Fantaisie et Variations sur des motifs de l‘Opéra La Fille du Régiment de Donizetti, Op.16
François George-Hainl
Fantaisie sure des motifs de Guillaume Tell de G. Rossini, Op.8
Richard Wagner, arr. August Wilhelmj
‘Walther’s Prize Song’ from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. Mikhail Bukinik
‘Lensky’s Aria’ from Eugene Onegin
Marshall Estrin
Fantasia Carmèn
Signum Records SIGCD882 | signumrecords.com
Release date 25 April 2025
Cellist Zlatomir Fung’s debut recording for Signum Records revisits the popular 19th-century genre of operatic fantasies and brings it up-to-date with two 21st-century examples composed especially. Fung’s own fantasy on Janáček’s searing opera Jenůfa and Marshall Estrin’s Fantasia Carmèn join rediscovered gems from the French repertoire (although both by Italian composers) – Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment (arranged by Adrien-François Servais) and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell (arranged by François George-Hainl) – and both German and Russian repertoire – Wagner’s Meistersinger (arranged by August Wilhelmj) and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (arranged by Mikhail Bukinik). Fung is joined by pianist Richard Fu.
Swedish Chamber Orchestra · Nicholas McGegan conductor
Concerto No. 1 in D major for horn and orchestra
(Adagio arranged & orchestrated by Alec Frank-Gemmill & Stephen Roberts)
Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K 417
Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K 477
Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K 495
Concerto ‘No. 0’ in E flat major, reconstructed & completed by by Stephen Roberts
BIS Records SACD BIS-2635 | www.bis.se
Released on 8 November 2024
Ten years on from his BBT Fellowship and four discs into his relationship with record company BIS, French horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill fulfils a long-held ambition to record Mozart’s Horn Concertos.
But his partnership with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and conductor Nicholas McGegan (with whom he collaborated on an earlier disc of horn concertos ‘Before Mozart‘) is different in that he not only plays a completed version of the First Horn Concerto (confusingly the last to be composed) but also includes an earlier, unfinished, concerto, here entitled ‘Concerto No 0’ as reconstructed and completed by Stephen Roberts and Frank-Gemmill himself.
This eagerly awaited recording was released on 8 November 2024.
Lucie Horsch plays Bach’s famous Air, the second movement of his Third Orchestral Suite in D, BWV 1068, with Rachel Podger violin, Esther van der Eijk viola, Albert Brüggen cello and Tom Foster harpsichord.
Lucie plays an alto recorder in F by Pierre Jaillard Bressan, London, c 1700-1725.
BRAHMS: THE PIANO TRIOS
Trio No 1 Op 8(revised 1889 version)
Trio No 2 Op 87
Trio No 3 Op 101
Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn Op 40 (in the version with cello transcribed by Brahms himself)
La Dolce Volta LDV132.3 (double disc set) | www.ladolcevolta.com
Album release 26 April 2024
After an acclaimed set of Beethoven Piano Trios, Trio Sōra turns its attention to Brahms in a complete set of Piano Trios including Brahms’ own version of his Horn Trio. Released on La Dolce Volta label on 26 April, it marks the final project using the Trio’s 2020 Borletti-Buitoini Trust Fellowship, which also included the commissioning of a Triple Concerto from Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy, premiered in 2022.