Dvorak & Lalo: Cello Concertos
German-Canadian international soloist Johannes Moser recently signed an exclusive recording contract with PENTATONE. He regularly performs with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, New York
Komponist: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major / Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Schlime: 3 Improvisations
Young Luxembourg-born virtuoso Francesco Tristano Schlimé is in no rush in either of the two piano concertos here, considerably stretching tempos beyond the norms in almost every movement. He is abetted by an equally laid-back
Komponist: Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Francesco Tristano Schlimé (1981-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dvorak: Symphony No. 6 / The Water Goblin
Joining Yakov Kreizberg and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra's previously released recordings of Dvorák's Eighth and Ninth Symphonies is their recording of the same composer's Sixth Symphony coupled with his symphonic
Komponist: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert, F.: Symphonies No. 4 Tragic and No. 5
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra has an extensive repertoire available on CD and new recordings on the PentaTone label are scheduled. Their leader Gordan Nikolic is a professor at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhal
Komponist: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Composer Arnold Schönberg considered it vitally important to study the techniques of other composers in order to thus penetrate more deeply into the true content of their music ⎯ and he believed the best way to do this was by arranging the
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
It’s brave of Julia Fischer to tackle the Mount Everest of music for solo violin at the age of 21. The young German is up against some stiff competition, but she acquits herself well. The great Chaconne in Partita No.2 suits her serious
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bach: The Two Violin Concertos / Double Concerto / Concerto for Violin and Oboe
According to Gramophone magazine the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra is the best orchestra in the world, so you won’t find greater quality performances than this release with the Concertgebouw and its principals as soloists.
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Schumann: Symphonische Etüden, Op. 13 / Waldszenen, Op. 82 / Arabeske, Op. 18
This new recital album of Martin Helmchen adds to the large collection of recordings Helmchen has with Pentatone. Helmchen will be touring in the US in late November 2012 & early December, playing with the Oregonn Symphony &
Komponist: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The debut album of Nareh Arghamanyan, born in Armenia who was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 14 (youngest ever). This Rachmaninov recital was very well received. Classics today gave it a 10/10 and uses it as
Komponist: Ferencz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Prokofiev: The 2 Violin Concertos
Composed in an extraordinarily tumultuous time, Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto is a work with a long and complicated genesis and reception history. In 1915, Prokofiev completed his studies at the St Petersburg Conservatory, where he had
Komponist: Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 - Coronation March
Nowadays, Tchaikovsky’s first three sym- phonies seldom appear on the concert programmes, whereas his symphonies four to six – in other words, the symphonies generally recognized as masterpieces – are regularly included.
Komponist: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
March 2012, Pentatone released a tribute to Yakov Kreizberg exhibited in a double-album. In the first album, we can enjoy his conducting for the work of Antonín Dvořák including Vodník Op. 107 (The Water Goblin – Der Wassermann),
Komponist: Yakov Kreizberg (1959-2011), Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899), Franz Schmidt (1874-1939), Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
D'Indy - Saint-Saëns - Chausson
All the pieces included here are by French composers who lived during the impressionist period. D’Indy’s Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français is a sort of hybrid work, a mixture of a symphony and a piano concerto.
Komponist: Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Vincent d' Indy (1851-1931), Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
During a journey through Italy in 1882, Peter Tchaikovsky received a parcel in the post from a friend containing a book with the fairy tale Nutcracker and the Mouse King. This was, however, in the French adaptation Histoire d’un casse-noi-
Komponist: Peter IlyichTchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Ballet
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture / Alto Rhapsody / Variations On A Theme by J. Haydn
Memories of Hans Vonk: Towards the end of the 1970’s, I was asked to produce a number of recordings with the Residentie Orkest (Hague Philharmonic Orchestra).The orchestra wanted a new concert hall, and was trying to earn some extra money,
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 26 & The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
In 1899, Scriabin began writing his most ambitious composition to date: the First Symphony. The work still reflects the influence of the traditional four-movement formal scheme. But Scriabin also framed the symphony with an
Komponist: Alexander Scriabin (1972-1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32 (Complete)
Das Warten hat sich gelohnt, endlich sind sämtliche Beethoven-Sonaten für Klavier von der japanischen Pianistin Mari Kodama für das Label PENTATONE eingespielt. Mari Kodama ist die erste Frau der Welt, die diesen umfangreichen ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Piano
R. Strauss: Symphonia domestica, Op. 53, TrV 209 & Die Tageszeiten, Op. 76, TrV 256
Richard Strauss’s original working title for the work was “My home. A symphonic portrait of myself and my family” and was intended as a homely sequel to Ein Heldenleben (1898). Instead of the hero’s struggle for supremacy, Symphonia
Komponist: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
This release arguably features the two greatest concertos ever written for the violin: performed by one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation, together with one of the finest orchestras, ...
Komponist: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 portrays another side of the composer, different to the one hitherto seen by the general public. No major battles are fought in this symphony; rather, it is a portrayal of a childlike vision of life and a better world
Komponist: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
