Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters
Following the murder of his sister in 2015, acclaimed Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins set out on a journey to use his personal and professional voice to wake people up to the global epidemic of violence against women. His call to action inspired the great Canadian ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 2
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 style with ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
R. Schumann: Complete Symphonies
Robert Schumann started his career as a composer of piano music and Lieder, and is still best known for his work in these genres. Intimidated by Beethoven’s legacy, as well as by his friend Felix Mendelssohn’s prolific output, Schumann long avoided the symphony. Spurred by his wife Clara, who was convinced that his imagination could not find sufficient ...
Komponist: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Puccini: La fanciulla del West, SC 78
Lawrence Foster conducts Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910), together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Cluj-Napoca and a cast of seasoned Puccini singers, including Melody Moore (Minnie), Marius Vlad (Dick Johnson) and Lester Lynch (Jack Rance). Puccini's 'Spaghetti Western'...
Komponist: Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Violins of Hope presents instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, representing strength and optimism for the future during mankind’s darkest hour. They have been refurbished by luthiers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schwungvolles Porträt von Telemanns Polonoise: Die Spieler von Holland Baroque setzen ihre PENTATONE-Reise mit Polonoise fort, einem Programm für neugierige Hörer, die eine andere Seite von Telemann entdecken wollen. Sein Manuskript Danses d’Polonie (TWV 45), ...
Komponist: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Felix Mendelssohn’s 5 symphonies demonstrate the composer’s extraordinary melodic gift, but also his adventurous spirit. While the First symphony – composed when he was only 15 years old – still reveals the influences of Viennese Classicism, ...
Komponist: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies were greeted by his contemporaries as the most promising answer to Beethoven’s legendary legacy, and they have remained at the core of the symphonic repertoire ever since. Steering clear of poetic titles and adhering to traditional forms, they are nonetheless ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After their acclaimed Cavalleria rusticana recording, Marek Janowski and the Dresdner Philharmonie now present Puccini’s Il Tabarro. Puccini composed this piece as the first panel of his Trittico (1918), a novel work combining three one-act operas, and also containing Suor Angelica and Gianni ...
Komponist: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Höchste Intensität, feinste Differenzierungen sowie schonungslose Expressivität, Innigkeit und Vitalität zeichnen das Signum Quartett aus. Die schlüssige Dramaturgie in der Programmgestaltung wird mit kompromissloser Perfektion und selbstverständlicher Leichtigkeit der Interpretation umgesetzt. ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (Live)
Naive Liebesgeschichte mit kosmischer Bedeutung: Ian Bostridge setzt zusammen mit der Pianistin Saskia Giorgini seine Auseinandersetzung mit den Schubert-Lied-Zyklen auf PENTATONE mit einer Aufnahme von Die schöne Müllerin fort.Die schöne Müllerin (1823) war Schuberts erster Liederzyklus und gleichzeitig ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The vibrant, expressive musical palette of cellist Matt Haimovitz and the graceful insight of pianist Mari Kodama meld in MON AMI, Mon amour, the new album from the PENTATONE Oxingale Series, available here on November 6, 2020. Haimovitz’s soaring cello and Kodama’s incisive piano flow ...
Komponist: Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Nadia Boulanger, Lili Boulanger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
R. Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41
Eine neue Ebene der künstlerischen Reife in Schumanns Entwicklung: Das Emerson String Quartet debütiert mit einer Gesamtaufnahme der Streichquartette Schumanns auf Pentatone. Die drei Quartette wurden im Sommer 1842 während eines außergewöhnlichen Ausbruchs an Kreativität geschrieben; sie bildeten ...
Komponist: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Händels Messias in einer neuen, intimen Einspielung: Der renommierte RIAS Kammerchor Berlin unter der Leitung von Justin Doyle präsentiert gemeinsam mit der Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Händels Messias. Ein rein britisches Quartett herausragender Stimmen – Julia Doyle ...
Komponist: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
PENTATONE continues its American Opera Series with Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere recording of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (2019), an opera on the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s favorite librettist. Da Ponte (1749-1838) was an adventurer, who not only travelled the world, ...
Komponist: Tarik O'Regan (1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
The Dutch reed quintet Calefax celebrates 35 years of adventurous and versatile musicianship with a collection of Musical Offerings from Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by the ensemble’s saxophonist Raaf Hekkema. Arthur Klaassens joins the ensemble on a lupophone and english horn for Musikalisches ...
Komponist: Raaf Hekkema (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Eine einzigartige Sinneserfahrung: Marek Janowski dirigiert Beethoven: Es ist schon etwas Besonderes, selbst im übervollen Beethoven-Sinfonien-Katalog, wenn Marek Janowski und das WDR Sinfonieorchester eine Gesamteinspielung der Sinfonien Beethovens vorlegen: Einer der meist ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present the first fruit of their integral Brahms symphonies project with a recording of the composer’s First Symphony in C Minor, alongside his Tragic Overture. Once celebrated as “Beethoven’s Tenth”, Brahms’ first attempt ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (Narrated in English)
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in which a young boy catches a wolf and brings him to the zoo, is arguably the most famous children’s story with classical music. Once designed to introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments, it showcases the composer’s superb ...
Komponist: Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra continue their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Second and Third Symphony. Jacobs approaches these pieces as a symphonic pair revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
