Classical Highlights for June 2026

This past month we covered some notable new releases of a few of these, including a Messiah by the Irish Baroque Orchestra that attempts to re-create the feel of the work's Dublin premiere. John Storgårds leads the BBC Philharmonic in striking renditions of Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5, while Justin Doyle conducts an excellent reading of the full orchestral version of Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze. More contemporary and less grand compositions a