Mozart: Works for Violin & Orchestra
After having recorded Mozart’s last three violin concertos in 2014, Arabella Steinbacher, the Festival Strings Lucerne and its leader Daniel Dodds now complete the cycle by presenting Mozart’s less well-known, but equally enchanting Violin Concertos 1 & 2, together with his Adagio in E Major and Rondos in C Major ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Música Temprana, one of today’s most exciting Hispanic early music ensembles, presents its first PENTATONE album Melancolía, on which they present Spanish courtly songs on mourning and unrequited love around 1500 together with the apocalyptic liturgical tradition of El Canto de la Sibila. ...
Composer: Francisco de la Torre (1483-1504), Adrian Rodriguez van der Spoel, Juan Ponce (1475-1520), Pedro de Escobar (1465-1535), Garci Sanchez de Badajoz (1460-1526), Johannes Urrede (1430-1482)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Spritz: Celebrating Concerto Music
Raise a glass with all of us, including Alisa Weilerstein, Johannes Moser, Arabella Steinbacher and Deniz Kozhukhin, as our Spritz anniversary compilation gives you a splash of sparkle for our celebration of concerto music! From piano to bassoon, cello to harpsichord, each concerto is ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Spätburgunder: Celebrating Orchestral Music
We propose a toast, as our Spätburgunder anniversary compilation brings you velvety elegance and distinctive, symphonic sounds of the orchestra, led by esteemed conductors such as Marek Janowski and Lawrence Foster. The music on our celebration of orchestral music is a hand-picked selection of ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Frizzante: Celebrating Vocal Music
Cheers! Our Frizzante anniversary compilation brings you some fresh and vibrant vocals from the likes of Piotr Beczala, Magdalena Kozena, Lise Davidsen, Ian Bostridge and Ann Hallenberg, for our Vocal Music Celebration. With just the right amount of crisp and bubbly repertoire to get you in the mood to sing ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Limoncello: Celebrating Chamber Music
Time for an aperitif with friends including Julia Fischer, Martin Helmchen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Francesco Piemontesi and Signum Quartett as our Limencello anniversary compilation bring you the fresh and fragrant sounds of our Chamber Music Celebration! ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Nostalgia: Brahms, Mussorgsky & Bartók
On her third PENTATONE album Nostalgia, Magdalena Kožená presents Bartók’s Village Scenes, Mussorgsky’s The Nursery and a selection of Brahms songs, together with acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman. Sung in Slovak, Russian and German, these songs on love, longing and innocence show three master composers ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony. Just as with the Second and Third, Jacobs approaches these works as a symphonic pair, ...
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After their acclaimed recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini present a programme of rarely-recorded songs by Ottorino Respighi. This selection of songs demonstrates Respighi’s stylistic versatility and broad literary inspiration, from settings of Ada Negri’s compact ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live)
Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester continue their PENTATONE journey through the heights of German late-Romantic repertoire with a recording of Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie. The Alpine Symphony was inspired by the composer’s experiences during a mountain trail, and is an audience favourite ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Haydn: L'isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII:9
After their acclaimed recording of Telemann’s Miriways, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata, together with an excellent quartet of vocalists. Officially called an azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After their acclaimed recording of Weber’s Freischütz, the Dresdner Philharmonie and its Principal conductor Marek Janowski present yet another German opera classic with Beethoven’s Fidelio. They work together with a stellar cast — well-seasoned in German opera — including Lise Davidsen (Fidelio/Leonore), Christian Elsner ....
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (Highlights) [Live]
The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop present a live recording with highlights of Gershwin’s self-proclaimed American “Folk Opera” Porgy and Bess, together with a stellar cast and the Morgan State University Choir. Since its premiere in 1935, Porgy and Bess has been one of the most significant attempts to ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 "Hammerklavier" & 15 Variations & Fugue "Eroica"
After his acclaimed interpretation of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to PENTATONE with a recording of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and Eroica Variations. The Hammerklavier Sonata is one of the pinnacles of Beethoven’s creative output, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
After his acclaimed Mendelssohn album with cellist Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson presents his first PENTATONE solo album Aus Wien, on which he brings together piano music from Schubert, Schumann, Schoenberg, Korngold and Ravel. Ranging from treasures of late-Romantic and early atonal music to carnivalesque, grandiose dance pieces, ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Eilífur (Eternal) is Icelandic contemporary composer Viktor Orri Árnason’s solo debut and first PENTATONE album, on which the prospect of living forever is contemplated. Sparked by the realisation that medical advances will soon eradicate death by natural causes, Eilífur weaves together a lucid, near-future narrative via a combination ...
Composer: Viktor Orri Árnason
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
PRIMAVERA I the wind is the first collection in a momentous series encompassing 81 world premieres for solo cello. This digital album presents 14 new commissions by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT for groundbreaking, multi-Grammy nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz. Each composer responds to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, ...
Composer: David Sanford (1963), Vijay Iyer (1971), Jake Heggie (1961), Luna Pearl Woolf (1973), Gabriella Smith
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Brabant 1653: Baroque Vocal Music from Brabant
Extensive research, in addition to a wealth of repertoire, provides insight into the rich musical culture of North Brabant during the 17th century. Holland Baroque is releasing a new album with the renowned label PENTATONE entitled Brabant 1653. With established soloists, Holland Baroque explores the ...
Composer: Cornelis Verdonck (1563-1625), Benedictus a Sancto Josepho (1642-1716), Carl Rosier (1640-1725), Herman Hollanders (1595-1640), Herman Finkers (1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Francisco Coll: Orchestral Works
The OPL and Gustavo Gimeno continue their acclaimed PENTATONE series of composer portraits with a monograph of a living composer, Francisco Coll. In Coll’s music, the past and present converge in a single space, by realising a contemporary sound world while creatively employing traditional ...
Composer: Francisco Coll (1985)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss make their PENTATONE debut with In Umbra Mortis. The album brings together Wolfgang Rihm’s contemporary Sieben Passions-Stücke and Passion-related motets by the Flemish 16th-century polyphonist Giaches de Wert, ...
Composer: Giaches de Wert (1535-1596), Wolfgang Rihm (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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