The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel’s Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
PENTATONE continues its American Opera Series with Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere recording of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (2019), an opera on the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s favorite librettist. Da Ponte (1749-1838) was an adventurer, who not only travelled the world, ...
Composer: Tarik O'Regan (1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
The Dutch reed quintet Calefax celebrates 35 years of adventurous and versatile musicianship with a collection of Musical Offerings from Johann Sebastian Bach, arranged by the ensemble’s saxophonist Raaf Hekkema. Arthur Klaassens joins the ensemble on a lupophone and english horn for Musikalisches ...
Composer: Raaf Hekkema (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Maestro Marek Janowski and the WDR Symphony Orchestra present a new recording of Beethovens complete symphonies, the ultimate symphonic oeuvre in all thinkable respects. Bold as they still sound to modern ears, one easily imagines how Beethovens contemporaries were completely swept ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Tragic Overture
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present the first fruit of their integral Brahms symphonies project with a recording of the composer’s First Symphony in C Minor, alongside his Tragic Overture. Once celebrated as “Beethoven’s Tenth”, Brahms’ first attempt ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (Narrated in English)
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in which a young boy catches a wolf and brings him to the zoo, is arguably the most famous children’s story with classical music. Once designed to introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments, it showcases the composer’s superb ...
Composer: Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra continue their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Second and Third Symphony. Jacobs approaches these pieces as a symphonic pair revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Jake Heggie: Unexpected Shadows
Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton presents a recital of songs by American composer Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano. UNEXPECTED SHADOWS is a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women. The program contains four song cycles, a standalone art song, and an opera aria. ....
Composer: Jake Heggie
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) not only enriched the piano repertoire with his colourful and lyrical music, but simultaneously captured the Norwegian landscape, folk tales and fantasy creatures in sounds, putting his fatherland on the cultural and musical map. ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
The profoundly moving, elegiac lyricism of Elgar is on full display in this irresistible re-release from PENTATONE played with consummate virtuosity by the German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Andrew Manze. ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton presents a recital of songs by American composer Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano. UNEXPECTED SHADOWS is a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women. The program contains four song cycles, a standalone art song, and an opera aria. ...
Composer: Jake Heggie (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Live)
Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin continue their exploration of Mahler with a new recording of Das Lied von der Erde, on which Dame Sarah Connolly and Robert Dean Smith provide the vocal contributions. Residing somewhere between symphony and song cycle, ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Opera Omaha presents Missy Mazzoli’s opera Proving Up (2018) in its premiere recording with the International Contemporary Ensemble and conductor Christopher Rountree and soloists. Crowned as “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” by Time Out New York, Mazzoli is one of today’s most ...
Composer: Missy Mazzoli (1980)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 3
A multifaceted opus: The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin complete their Handel trilogy with this recording of the Op. 3 concerti grossi. Even if this selection of concertos was most likely compiled by Handel’s publisher rather than by the composer himself, the overall quality and colourful nature of the music ...
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
It is all too easy to forget that when Ludwig van Beethoven presented his early symphonies to the Viennese public at the beginning of the 19th century, the genre there had already lost much of its allure. But the facts speak for themselves: by around 1795, well-known symphonic composers such as Haydn, Gyrowetz ....
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Melancholic violin, affectionate duets, and comforting concertos, enjoy Julia Fischer’s most introspective & reflective repertoire. Put together with privacy and familiarity in mind, let this music be the accompaniment for your most preciously intimate moments. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 113 “Babi Yar”
The Russian National Orchestra continues its Shostakovich cycle with Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar, together with bass Oleg Tsibulko, the Popov Academy of Choral Arts Choir, the Kozhevnikov choir and maestro Kirill Karabits. Inspired by Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem Babi Yar about a Nazi ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton presents a recital of songs by American composer Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano. UNEXPECTED SHADOWS is a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women. The program contains four song cycles, a standalone art song, and an opera aria. ...
Composer: Jake Heggie (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. H. Eder) [Live]
Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre present a new recording of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, the iconic opening Kyrie of which is among the most cherished religious music ever written. Mozart performed parts of the Mass in 1783, but the score remained unfinished, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (After H. Andersen) [Live]
A Fin-De-Siècle Little Mermaid: Marc Albrecht and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra present Zemlinsky’s lush symphonic poem Die Seejungfrau. Zemlinsky was a child of fin-de-siècle Vienna, who for decades has been overshadowed by colleagues such as Gustav Mahler – the man who married Alma, the woman Zemlinsky ...
Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
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