This release reunites the Kodama sisters in the studio following their scintillating recording of Tchaikovsky ballet suites for PENTATONE. In a review of a public performance of the Martinů Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, the Ziebline journal wrote “Mari and Momoyo Kodama are ...
Komponist: Bohuslav Martinů
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Calefax is an internationally acclaimed ensemble of reed players renowned for performing their own arrangements and newly commissioned compositions for the unique combination of oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon. Switching genres and periods with consummate ease, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Renowned French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard kicks off his exclusive engagement to PENTATONE with a recording of Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux (1956-1958). The pianist had intimate ties to the composer himself and his wife, Yvonne Loriod, for whom Messiaen wrote the Catalogue. ...
Komponist: Olivier Messiaen (1930)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ergreifend schöne Klagen, die zugleich das Tor ins Jenseits aufschlagen: Bejun Mehta und die Akademie für Alte Musik präsentieren auf Ihrer neuen CD ein Programm mit geistlichen und weltlichen Kantaten, ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Georg Melchior Hoffmann (1679-1715)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Eine frische Sichtweise auf Schuberts Romantik und Lyrik Das heute sowohl im zeitgenössischen als auch im klassischen Repertoire als eines der neugierigsten und herausragendsten Quartette geltende Signum Quartett präsentiert seine erste Aufnahme bei Pentatone mit einem reinen Schubert-Programm. ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major & Piano Quartet in A Minor
With their combination of modernism and Romantic nostalgia, and alternation of sweeping orchestral gestures with chamber-musical delicacy, Gustav Mahler’s orchestral works are as impressive and moving today as they were at the time of their premiere. ...
Komponist: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Having demonstrated their musical excellence with three well-received recordings on PENTATONE of orchestral works of Antonin Dvořák, Houston Symphony and Andrés Orozco-Estrada now present an album that comes closer to their cultural roots than ever before. ...
Komponist: Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Ástor Piazzolla, George Gershwin (1989-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Nobilissima visione Suite & Konzertmusik
Paul Hindemith belongs to the most original and interesting composers of the 20th century. Once described by the Boston Globe as a "20th-century Brahms", Hindemith wrote music that is Modernist in its rhythmic audacity and colourful orchestration, but simultaneously inspired by Classical forms and styles. ...
Komponist: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Sensuously Mediterranean sounds and Northern solemnity shake hands on this recording of Mendelssohn’s Italian and Reformation symphonies (Nos. 4 and 5). This is the second release in a series of recordings in multi-channel surround sound for PENTATONE by the conductor Andrew Manze ...
Komponist: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Nach den Tondichtungen „Ein Heldenleben“ und „Macbeth“ setzen Andrés Orozco-Estrada und das hr-Sinfonieorchester ihre Strauss-Reihe mit einem weiteren epochalen Meisterwerk von Richard Strauss fort: der Oper „Salome“ nach Oscar Wilde. ...
Komponist: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Der renommierte Dirigent Lawrence Foster, der zuvor bereits beeindruckende Aufnahmen anderer Opern für Pentatone eingespielt hat, leitet bei dieser ambitionierten Studio-Aufnahme das bestens aufgelegte Gulbenkian Orchester. Die Sänger der drei Hauptrollen – Otello, Iago und Desdemona ...
Komponist: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
The acclaimed Russian-born maestro Vladimir Jurowski kicks off his new cycle of the complete symphonies of Prokofiev for PENTATONE with a searing account of the challenging and uncompromising second and third symphonies. ...
Komponist: Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Britten & Hindemith: Violin Concertos
Breathtaking virtuosity flows seamlessly with expansive lyrical passages and fiendish passagework in this commanding performance by Arabella Steinbacher of the restless and technically demanding violin concertos of Britten and Hindemith in this new release from ...
Komponist: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Acclaimed for their adventurous and wide-ranging recording projects – from Beethoven Sonatas on period instruments to genre-bending arrangements of Radiohead and Arcade Fire – the endlessly inventive duo of cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley returns ...
Komponist: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934), Viktor Tsoi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - Mahler: Totenfeier
Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss’s electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler’s Totenfeier, to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director ...
Komponist: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Jake Heggie: It's a Wonderful Life (Live)
Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer knew before they ever wrote a note or a line of It s a Wonderful Life that there are challenges in adapting a treasured classic for the operatic stage. After all, Heggie and Scheer s hit 2010 opera Moby-Dick raised ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Handel: Parnasso in festa, HWV 73 (Live)
Andrea Marcon, das La Cetra Barockorchester und das Vokalensemble Basel glänzen in dieser Aufnahme von Händels vergessenen Meisterwerk Il Parnasso in Festa, aufgenommen kurz vor der erfolgreichen Holland-Premiere im November 2016. ...
Komponist: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
New from the PENTATONE Oxingale Series, Tippet Rise OPUS 2016: Domo is a live recording birthed from the inaugural season at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail Montana. The center's intimate concert space is set on a 10,260-acre working sheep and cattle ranch dotted ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Graceful, refined and irresistibly charming, the Flute Quartets occupy an exquisite place in Mozart’s incomparable chamber music. This light, airy music with its vivid contrasts, delicious textures and irrepressible wit is brought to life by the soloists of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in this new release. ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Une barque sur l'océan & Pavane pour une infante défunte
Sensuous, lushly evocative and intricately constructed, Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is widely regarded as his greatest orchestral masterpiece and one of the 20th century’s finest ballet scores. This vast musical fresco with its shimmering harmonies, ...
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
