Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
On his first album released on PENTATONE, multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs finally records Schubert, his first great musical love. Jacobs delivers his fresh perspective on the favourite composer of his youth together with the exceptional players of the B’Rock Orchestra, acclaimed for their inspired playing, musical curiosity and ...
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Night on the Bare Mountain
These well known pieces are presented in superb sound. Carlo Ponti Jr. is the son of Carlo Ponti Sr. and Sophia Loren and is a regular conductor of the Russian National Orchestra. "It may seem perverse with a Russian orchestra to have the least Russian-sounding orchestration of Pictures, albeit the most inspired one. Yet Carlo Ponti, so far as he can, ....
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1884-1908), Anatol Liadov (1855-1914)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This double album offers a testimony to Stravinsky’s overwhelming musical heritage, covering all the phases of his creative life. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) is twentieth-century music! More than any other composer, he continued to develop his compositional style throughout his seven-decade-spanning career, ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This album is violinist Arabella Steinbacher’s tribute to the favourite composer of her family household. The music of Richard Strauss has played a crucial role throughout her life. As great Strauss lovers, her parents named her after the main character of Strauss’ opera Arabella, and ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Strauss, Debussy & Ligeti: Orchestral Works
This album presents extraordinary works of three twentieth-century composers with diverse cultural backgrounds, underlining the versatility and legacy of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in its centenary year. Richard Strauss’ Schlagobers (Whipped Cream, 1924) is a playful ballet set in a Viennese Konditorei, of which the orchestral suite is ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957):, Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Rachmaninov: 6 Etudes Tableaux / Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
At present, Modest Mussorgsky’s reputation is based principally on three works: his opera Boris Godunov, his orchestral work A Night on the Bare Mountain and his piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition. Certainly, it must be mentioned that these pieces did not set out on their triumphant journey throughout the world of music in ...
Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Aspects of America presents a fascinating collection of 20th- and 21st-century American orchestral music, ranging from good old Samuel Barbers Souvenirs to pieces by esteemed living composers such as Sean Shepherd (Magiya), Sebastian Currier (Microsymph) and Christopher Rouse (Supplica). ...
Composer: Sean Shepherd, Sebastian Currier, Christopher Rouse, Kenji Bunch
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske
While starting his career adhering to Brahms’ “absolute” or “formalist” compositional approach, Richard Strauss rapidly turned into a staunch supporter of Wagner’s Zukunftsmusik, writing a series of iconoclast symphonic poems full of metaphysical allusions. This album features both ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Transfigured Night brings together two outstanding composers associated with Vienna: Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg. The former is often seen as the oldest representative of the “First Viennese School”, whereas the latter founded the “Second Viennese School”, ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Stravinsky’s Perséphone (1934) is a dynamic musical-theatrical narration of the myth of Persephone’s abduction to the underworld and return to earth. The transparent, sober but evocative music epitomizes Stravinsky’s sensuous take on Neoclassicism, and the piece showcases ...
Composer: Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Gordon Getty: Beauty Come Dancing
Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty’s new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th century. ...
Composer: Gordon Getty (1933-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys
In opera, specific voice types are often associated with certain types of characters. Numerous and diverse associations exist also for the bass voice, who can be a father, a villain, an elderly man, a religious figure, a comic character- or, indeed, a combination of the above. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233
With its epic sweep and grandeur and compelling drama, there has rarely been such a spine-tingling and vivid depiction of nature as found in Richard Strauss’s magnificent tone poem, An Alpine Symphony. Calling for gargantuan orchestral forces, this lavishly ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 10
Fear, Loathing and Redemption in the Troubled Symphonies of Shostakovich: The spirit of Gustav Mahler looms over the pages of Shostakovich’s turbulent, sprawling and enigmatic Symphony No. 4, a work so uncompromising that for many years he suppressed its performance, fearing public censure. ...
Composer: Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 1 & 3
Inspired by his visits to Scotland and the Hebrides and the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, his outstanding Symphony No. 3 in A minor (Scottish) is a colourful reminiscence of its rugged landscapes steeped in history, and an affectionate homage ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird
All Igor Stravinsky needed to establish his worldwide reputation were three ballet works, composed in Paris between 1910 and 1913: L’Oiseau de Feu, Petrushka and Le Sacre du Printemps. It was in this period that the impresario Serge Diaghilev brought his Ballets ...
Composer: Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 & Macbeth, Op. 23, TrV 163
The celebrated young Colombian maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada continues his critically acclaimed series of recordings for PENTATONE with this release of the evocative tone poems Macbeth and Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss, performed here with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart & Mysliveček: Flute Concertos
With sensuous melodies and elegant virtuosity, Mozart’s Flute Concertos in G major (K. 313) and D major (K. 314) are the most cherished pieces composed for the instrument. Here they are brought together with the recently rediscovered Flute Concerto in D major by Josef Mysliveček, ...
Composer: Matěje Myslivečka (1697-1749), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tippet Rise OPUS 2017: Daydreams
Tippet Rise OPUS 2017 is the second compilation album to emerge from the summer music season at Montana’s Tippet Rise Arts Center, which features performance spaces of acoustic perfection amidst a sculpture-laden terrain of awe-inspiring beauty, nestled against a backdrop of the Beartooth ...
Composer: John Luther Adams (1953-), Yevgeny Sudbin, Frédéric Chopin, George Enescu (1881-1955), EUGÈNE BOZZA (1905-1991), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Aaron Jay Kernis, Samuel A. Ward, Jeffrey Kahane
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
In their astounding new opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell explore the spiritual evolution of one of the most influential men of modern times as he creates a revolutionary new world of technological empowerment, then ...
Composer: Mason Bates (1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
