Angel Heart: A Music Storybook
Created by soprano Lisa Delan and composer Luna Pearl Woolf, the recording of Angel Heart is a music storybook narrated by Jeremy Irons with an original story by Cornelia Funke and music by Luna Pearl Woolf, and performed by Matt Haimovitz & Uccello with world-class artists Frederica von Stade, Daniel Taylor, Delan and more. Woolf’s original ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings / Souvenir De Florence
Only a few works from Pjotr Tschaikowski's huge oeuvre have gained general acceptance, however, these are of such an enduring nature that the Russian is ranked among the great composers in the history of music. The way the world of music highlights especially his last three symphonies, ...
Komponist: Pjotr Tschaikowski (1840–1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Debussy: La mer, Ibéria, Images & 6 Épigraphes antiques
Released in the year of Claude Debussys death centenary, this album demonstrates the exceptional harmonic and coloristic richness of his music. The centerpiece of the album is La Mer (1903-1905), a musical realization of the composers sincere devotion to the sea that ...
Komponist: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Strauss II: Die Fledermaus (Live)
Die Fledermaus von Johann Strauss Jr. gehört fraglos zu den Hauptwerken des Wiener Operetten-Repertoires. Die typische Wiener Mischung aus Komödie, Raffinesse und mitreißenden Walzern-Rhythmen trug nicht nur Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zum großen Erfolg der Gattung Operette bei, sondern begeistert das Publikum bis heute. ...
Komponist: Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
ELEGANT, EXHILARATING, ELECTRIFYING! From the moment they were performed, Gioachino Rossini’s overtures have enjoyed the status of colourful, elegant orchestral showpieces. With their sweet cantilene, their rich harmonies, their brilliant orchestration, and their powerful and ...
Komponist: Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This live recording was produced in honor of the 20th anniversary of Gospel Christmas with the Northwest Community Gospel Chorus and the Oregon Symphony. Once considered an unlikely marriage of musical genres, gospel music with symphony orchestra has now established itself as a tradition. While blues, hymns, and spirituals are typical sources of ...
Komponist: DeMarcus Williams, Bill Winston, Milton Biggham, Terry Davis, Joseph Joubert, Buryl Red, Michael McElroy, Norman Hutchins, Gary Hemenway, James Fortune, AyRon Lewis, Joseph Pace II, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Lynn DeShazo, Traditional, Gary Sadler, Israel Houghton, Charles Floyd, Erasmus Mutambira:
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Lutosławski & Dutilleux: Cello Concertos
This album features cello concertos by Witold Lutosławski and Henri Dutilleux performed by the multiple prize-winning German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Thomas Søndergård. These works, premiered in 1970, are two of the biggest gems ...
Komponist: Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 22, TH 12 (1877 Version)
Swan Lake is the first of the three great ballets that Tchaikovsky wrote, and arguably the most famous. The piece is mainly known in the shape it obtained in 1895, when it became a classic in the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. That “imperial” version strayed from Tchaikovsky’s world premiere score, ...
Komponist: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
On his first album released on PENTATONE, multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs finally records Schubert, his first great musical love. Jacobs delivers his fresh perspective on the favourite composer of his youth together with the exceptional players of the B’Rock Orchestra, acclaimed for their inspired playing, musical curiosity and ...
Komponist: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Night on the Bare Mountain
These well known pieces are presented in superb sound. Carlo Ponti Jr. is the son of Carlo Ponti Sr. and Sophia Loren and is a regular conductor of the Russian National Orchestra. "It may seem perverse with a Russian orchestra to have the least Russian-sounding orchestration of Pictures, albeit the most inspired one. Yet Carlo Ponti, so far as he can, ....
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1884-1908), Anatol Liadov (1855-1914)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This double album offers a testimony to Stravinsky’s overwhelming musical heritage, covering all the phases of his creative life. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) is twentieth-century music! More than any other composer, he continued to develop his compositional style throughout his seven-decade-spanning career, ...
Komponist: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Arabella Steinbacher brilliert bei Strauss: Arabella Steinbacher hatte seit jeher ein sehr persönliches Verhältnis zur Musik von Richard Strauss. Diese spielte schon seit ihrer Kindheit eine große Rolle in ihrer musikalischen Familie, und nicht zuletzt entstammt der Vorname der ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Strauss, Debussy & Ligeti: Orchestral Works
This album presents extraordinary works of three twentieth-century composers with diverse cultural backgrounds, underlining the versatility and legacy of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in its centenary year. Richard Strauss’ Schlagobers (Whipped Cream, 1924) is a playful ballet set in a Viennese Konditorei, of which the orchestral suite is ...
Komponist: Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957):, Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Rachmaninov: 6 Etudes Tableaux / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
At present, Modest Mussorgsky’s reputation is based principally on three works: his opera Boris Godunov, his orchestral work A Night on the Bare Mountain and his piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition. Certainly, it must be mentioned that these pieces did not set out on their triumphant journey throughout the world of music in ...
Komponist: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Aspects of America presents a fascinating collection of 20th- and 21st-century American orchestral music, ranging from good old Samuel Barbers Souvenirs to pieces by esteemed living composers such as Sean Shepherd (Magiya), Sebastian Currier (Microsymph) and Christopher Rouse (Supplica). ...
Komponist: Sean Shepherd, Sebastian Currier, Christopher Rouse, Kenji Bunch
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
While starting his career adhering to Brahms’ “absolute” or “formalist” compositional approach, Richard Strauss rapidly turned into a staunch supporter of Wagner’s Zukunftsmusik, writing a series of iconoclast symphonic poems full of metaphysical allusions. This album features both ...
Komponist: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Eindrucksvoller Beginn der exklusiven Zusammenarbeit von Alisa Weilerstein mit Pentatone: Das Album Transfigured Night bringt zwei herausragende Komponisten zusammen, die beide eng mit Wien verbunden sind: Joseph Haydn und Arnold Schönberg. ...
Komponist: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Stravinsky’s Perséphone (1934) is a dynamic musical-theatrical narration of the myth of Persephone’s abduction to the underworld and return to earth. The transparent, sober but evocative music epitomizes Stravinsky’s sensuous take on Neoclassicism, and the piece showcases ...
Komponist: Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Gordon Getty: Beauty Come Dancing
Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty’s new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th century. ...
Komponist: Gordon Getty (1933-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys
Mephistopheles und andere Bad Guys – Kevin Short auf den Spuren der Bösewichte der Oper: In der Oper werden bestimme Stimmfächer oft mit gewissen Personentypen assoziiert. Gerade für das Bass-Fach gibt es diverse Assoziationen – als Vater, Bösewicht, älterer Mann, religiöse Figur, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
