Mozart has always been my favorite composer. I think I started to feel this strong connection to his music when I studied his concertos as a young flautist. I had to learn the language of the virtuosic writing he is so famous for, and be able to color and create musical phrases without ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Academic Festival Overture (Live)
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig continue their integral Brahms symphonies project with a recording of the composer’s Second Symphony in D Major, alongside his Academic Festival Overture. Although idyllic and pastoral at first sight, Brahms himself ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
On her third PENTATONE album Bach Unbuttoned, Ana de la Vega brings together a group of exciting young soloists and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn to present a lively and fresh perspective on Bach as man and composer. The programme contains Brandenburg concertos Nos. 2, 4 & 5, a unique ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On Bach Nostalghia, his second PENTATONE album, pianist Francesco Piemontesi presents original works of Bach, alongside Bach transcriptions and works inspired by Bach from Ferruccio Busoni, Wilhelm Kempff and Maximilian Schnaus. Whereas many modern-day musicians aim to revive the instruments used in Bach’s own time, ...
Composer: Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Recorder player Bolette Roed and Arte dei Suonatori present Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos, “The Four Seasons”, combined with other concertos that share a kinship with them, resulting in Vivaldi’s Seasons; a programme consisting of sixteen concertos, four for each season, including favourites ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Anton Bruckner & Michael Haydn: Motets
The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and its chief conductor Philipp Ahmann present motets by Anton Bruckner and Michael Haydn. While Bruckner’s Locus iste, Christus factus est and Ave Maria enjoy great popularity and can be heard frequently in concerts, Michael Haydn’s contributions to the same genre ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Anna Lucia Richter returns to PENTATONE after her acclaimed Schubert album Heimweh with Il delirio della passione; a recording full of Monteverdi treasures, from heart-wrenching opera scenes (Lamento d’Arianna, ‘Pur ti miro’ from Poppea and the Prologue of L’orfeo) ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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'...
Composer: 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
The players of Holland Baroque continue their PENTATONE journey with Polonoise, a programme for curious listeners who want to discover a different side of Telemann. His manuscript Danses d’Polonie (TWV 45), in which he wrote down the dance music he heard ...
Composer: 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, ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
After their multi-award-winning album Aus der Ferne, the Signum Quartett continues their Schubert journey for PENTATONE with Ins stille Land, another recording that explores the fascinating connections between his string quartets and songs, the latter arranged for string quartet by Xandi van Dijk, ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ..
Composer: 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
The Emerson String Quartet makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets. Penned in the summer of 1842 during an exceptional peak of creativity, these quartets formed the beginning of a six-month surge during which most of Schumann’s best chamber music saw the light. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
