Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Live)
A 13-time Grammy nominee, one of the world’s leading tenors and an unparalleled recitalist, Ian Bostridge stands at the peak of his powers. Bostridge is also the author of Schubert’s Winter Journey, Anatomy of an Obsession, an insightful and gracefully ....
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
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Belgian clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe revives the golden glow of a bygone age on her PENTATONE debut album Belle époque, together with the Orchestre National de Lille and its music director Alexandre Bloch. The programme is built around treasures of French turn-of-the-century music such ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn-Hensel: Works for Cello & Piano
German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin Mendelssohn family house, these works ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Fanny Caecilie Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin kickstarts their Handel trilogy with this recording of the first six concerti grossi op. 6. Originally designed as attractive interludes to English oratorio performances, Handel’s concerti grossi soon gained fame as the most appealing orchestral music of the baroque era.
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
An American Song Album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barbers introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggies engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyds exploration of motherhood ...
Composer: Gordon Getty (1933), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Carlisle Floyd (1926), Jake Heggie (1961), Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Grieg: Lyric Pieces - Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
On his new solo album, Russian star pianist Denis Kozhukhin presents a personal and colourful collection of character pieces taken from Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte and Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. Combing these miniature gems by two outstanding poets of music, Kozhukhin provides ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Saint-Saëns, Poulenc & Widor: Works for Organ
The monumental and colourful sounds of the organ and symphony orchestra blend together perfectly on this splendid recording of Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony, Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani and the Toccata from Charles-Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony No. 5. The majestic organ ...
Composer: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Silk Baroque presents a musical encounter between Wu Wei and Holland Baroque, performing a programme that ranges from Baroque greats such as Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Rameau to Chinese traditional tunes, all tied together by the musicians’ openness to improvisation, experimentation and cultural ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Verdi & Donizetti: Opera Arias
American star tenor Michael Fabiano presents a spectacular set of scenes taken from late Donizetti and middle Verdi operas, revealing the strong ties between these two composers. The album documents a paradigmatic shift in Italian opera, from the beautiful lines and crispness of belcanto to a richer, ...
Composer: Giuseppe Donizetti (1813-1901), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
On her first PENTATONE album, Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená returns to the baroque repertoire that launched her early career. Il giardino dei sospiri is a collection of scenes from secular cantatas on tragic love, ranging from Handel’s Qual ti riveggio to new editions of works by ...
Composer: Benedetto Marcello, Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730), Francesco Gasparini (1661-1727), Domenico Sarro (1679-1744), Leonardo Leo (1694-1744), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Tchaikovsky has dedicated some of his finest music to the violin, but this new album expands the instrument’s repertoire even further. Inspired by greats such as Sarasate, Heifetz, Kreisler and Joachim, violinist Guy Braunstein reanimates a tradition of violin and orchestra rhapsodies with ...
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Beethoven & Hillborg: Chamber Works
The Calder Quartet invites you on a journey from early to late Beethoven, passing through an exciting contemporary piece by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg along the way. Beethoven’s Op. 131 string quartet, that concludes this album, is already a great adventure in its own right, with its ...
Composer: Anders Hillborg (1954), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Love is a rollercoaster, and so is this swinging new take on Virgil’s classical tragedy. Dido & Aeneazz is a recomposition of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by Raaf Hekkema, combined with newly- composed music by Eric Vloeimans. The album showcases the congenial collaboration between ...
Composer: Eric Vloeimans
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Rossini: Petite messe solennelle
In Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle (1863-1867), sacred tones blend seamlessly with allusions to his comic operas. “Is this sacred music which I have written or music of the devil?”, the composer tellingly asked himself in a personal letter. Rossini’s enigmatic but highly enjoyable ...
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Featuring works by Abel, Reichardt, Zelter, Storace, Mozart and Paisiello, this album follows the musical “jet set” of the 18th century as they “do” the splendid cosmopolitan cultural epicentres of the time, including London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and St Petersburg. Exploring the ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Early Symphonies & Stage Music
By presenting Schubert’s first three symphonies and a selection of stage music, this album showcases a less-known, but fascinating part of the composer’s oeuvre. His extraordinary achievements in the fields of Lieder and string quartet composition tend to overshadow his ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
On her first PENTATONE album, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents a highly personal selection of solo works by Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen. Influences shows how these extraordinarily original and idiosyncratic composers let themselves be inspired by the exterior world, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Bela Bartók (1881–1945), Charles Ives (1874-1954), Olivier Messiaen (1930)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies & Manfred
Tchaikovsky defined the symphony as being the most lyrical of musical forms. After all, is it not meant to express that for which there are no words, but which forces itself out of the soul, impatiently waiting to be uttered? With these words, the composer makes us aware of the ...
Composer: Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live)
Considered to be the highest triumph of instrumental composition in his own day, Mozart’s final symphonies continue to sweep audiences away. From the famous G-minor opening movement of the 40th symphony that cuts straight to the chase to the unprecedented complexity of the 41st ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
In her PENTATONE debut album, young German star soprano Anna Lucia Richter explores the heart-wrenching, timeless and universal feeling of Heimweh (homesickness) through a collection of extraordinary Schubert songs. Richter approaches the notion of Heimweh from several perspectives: ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
