News Arts International have announced their August. Thess include the long awaited follow up disc from Howard Shelley (on the National Institute Frederyck Chopin label) of Dobrzyňski and Lessel Piano Concertos, accompanied by the widely acclaimed Concerto Köln. The ABC label offers an unusual recording from 2013 of Zubin Mehta conducting the Australian World Orchestra (compiled entirely froml Australian musicians who work abroad, who come back to Australia for this annual project), in a programme of Stravinsky and Mahler which has already made a huge impact in Europe.

 Christian Tetzlaff is joined in a programme of Dvorak by Tanja Tetzlaff and his friend Lars Vogt on the AVI Music label, and Belgian label Avanti releases a wonderful disc of Yiddish music with the queen of the genre, Myriam Fuks who is joined by Evgenny Kissin and Martha Argerich (amongst others) on this CD.

Another Belgian label, Phaedra, releases the debut disc of a Italian bass Marco Vinco,  

and there are a number of new releases on the Opera D’Oro label from Luciano Pavarotti; and as tribute to maestro Lorin Maazel who died last month, there are a number of recordings on the Australian Eloquence label  which celebrate some of his finest recordings.