Star violinist Arabella Steinbacher presents Antonio Vivaldi’s world-famous Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones porteñas, creating a lively combination of baroque and tango. The enormous popularity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons tends to make us forget the original and ground- ...
Komponist: Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 "L'estate"
This is the fourth and final of four digital pre-releases taken from the full album.
Komponist: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Franck: Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48 & Variations symphoniques, FWV 46
The Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and its Music Director Gustavo Gimeno present a composer portrait of César Franck. The album features the famous Symphony in D Minor, as well as the lesser known, but equally enchanting Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, with Denis Kozhukhin as soloist. ...
Komponist: César Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E Minor - Stravinsky: Mass
Zwei einzigartige Messen für Chor- und Blasinstrumente: Der Rundfunkchor Berlin unter der Leitung seines Chefdirigenten Gijs Leenaars in Begleitung von Bläsern des Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesters Berlin präsentiert Messen von Bruckner und Strawinsky. Die Messe ist wohl das älteste Genre der ...
Komponist: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Jake Heggie: The Work at Hand (Version for Mezzo-Soprano, Cello & Piano)
This is the second pre-release EP derived from UNEXPECTED SHADOWS, a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women, with songs composed by Jake Heggie, and performed by mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, with the composer at the piano. The Work at Hand sets poetry by the late Laura Morefield, ...
Komponist: Jake Heggie (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Es ist sein Debütalbum auf Pentatone: Mit „Vincerò!“ eröffnet der polnische Startenor Piotr Beczala ein neues Kapitel seiner Karriere und wendet sich hin zu den dramatischen Tenorrollen der Komponisten des Verismo: Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavalli und Cilea. Begleitet wird er vom Chor und Orchester de la ...
Komponist: Giacomo Puccini, Francesco Ciléa, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Telemann: Miriways, TWV 21:24 (Live)
Oper in drei Akten nach einem Libretto von Johann Samuel Müller TWV 21:24. Hamburgs „Director musices“ Georg Philipp Telemann blieb immer am Puls der Zeit. Als im Jahr 1722 im fernen Persien ein afghanischer Stammesfürst das Heer der Perser schlug, deren ...
Komponist: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
After an acclaimed first installment, Inon Barnatan, Alan Gilbert and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields complete their Beethoven piano concertos diptych. This recording project bears the fruit of longstanding and profound musical friendships. ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sa Chen here gives serviceable performance (in splendid sound) of two concerto warhorses. The Pentatone label seems to have cornered the market in surround sound recordings of the great concertos, but it was perhaps inevitable that their unbroken series of definitive recordings would ...
Komponist: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
After her acclaimed complete recording of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, Mari Kodama returns with a programme consisting of Beethoven string quartets transcribed for piano by Saint-Saëns, Mussorgsky and Balakirev, as well as Beethoven’s variations on the finale of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. Most pieces are recorded for ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Mily Balakireff (1837-1910), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Live)
Puccini hat neben seinen großen Opern auch drei Einakter geschrieben, von denen „Il tabarro“ („Der Mantel“) der berühmteste ist. Die tragische Geschichte nimmt einen schnellen und unerbittlichen Verlauf, nur aufgehalten durch die lyrischen Momente der expressiven Musik. „Cavalleria ...
Komponist: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Bach: Cello Suites, BWVV 1007-1012
After her acclaimed PENTATONE debut with Transfigured Night, Alisa Weilerstein returns with a complete recording of Bach’s Cello Suites. These pieces present the highest mountain to climb for any cellist, and one of the most transcendent and rewarding experiences for listeners alike. With his suites, Bach crafted ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos
Bach’s harpsichord concertos are arguably the first in the history of music designed specifically for this instrument. Composing them, Bach aimed to adapt the string writing of Italian instrumental concertos to a keyboard instrument, while simultaneously enriching this ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Aspects of America: Pulitzer Edition (Live)
Oregon Symphony and Carlos Kalmar continue their acclaimed Aspects of America series with this second instalment, featuring three symphonic works that were all awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Walter Piston’s Symphony No. 7 (Pulitzer Prize 1961) is a pastoral and jubilant glorification ...
Komponist: Walter Piston (1894-1976), Howard Hanson (1896-1981), Morton Gould (1913-1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The young players of the Swiss string ensemble Camerata du Léman make their recording debut with energetic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, in a new arrangement by concertmaster Simon Bouveret. The Camerata realise an ensemble ...
Komponist: Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2
After their acclaimed Brahms String Quintets recording, the WDR Chamber Players now present the composer’s string sextets. Brahms wrote his two sextets at the beginning of his career, partly as a way to evade the “Ghost of Beethoven” haunting the string quartet, but also as the ideal genre to ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On her PENTATONE debut Reine de coeur, star soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller brings the German and French art song traditions together, focusing on song cycles by Robert Schumann, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Francis Poulenc, accompanied by pianist Juliane Ruf. The album presents a highly ...
Komponist: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Von einer tief bewegenden Messe bis hin zu eindringlich neu erfundenen Meisterwerken von Leonard Cohen, »Fire and Flood« umfasst 25 Jahre Vokalwerke der Komponistin Luna Pearl Woolf, gespielt vom Chor der Trinity Wall Street und dem Cellisten Matt Haimovitz unter der Leitung ...
Komponist: Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), Luna Pearl Woolf (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Haydn, A. Stamitz & C. Stamitz: Concertos
Bereits mit ihrem 2018 veröffentlichten Debüt-Album mit Flötenkonzerten von Mozart und Mysliveček konnte Ana de la Vega die Musikkritik begeistern. Es folgten hervorragende Engagements, u. a. in der Hamburger Elbphilharmonie. ...
Komponist: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Händel: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12
Zweiter Teil der Händel-Trilogie der Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: Die Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin setzt ihre Händel-Trilogie mit dieser Aufnahme der letzten sechs Concerti Grossi op. 6 fort. Ursprünglich als attraktive Zwischenspiele zu englischen Oratorien konzipiert, erlangten Händels ...
Komponist: Georg Friedrich Händel
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
