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
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
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
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
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
