Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite Nos. 1 & 2 / Fauré: Masques et bergamasques Suite / Gounod Faust
This is the first album of a series of three which feature ballet, theatre and dance music. The first one comprises music by French composers amongst them the very popular Arlésienne suites by George Bizet in performances by ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Heggie / Scheer: Here and After
Here/After is a collection of recent music by Jake Heggie, acclaimed as the finest American art song composer of his generation, in collaboration with librettist and Grammy Award nominee Gene Scheer.
Composer: Jake Heggie (1961), Gene Scheer (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Gabrieli: Music for Brass and Organ
In partnership with some 30 brass players from the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper and other ensembles, PENTATONE has succeeded in conveying the full lustre of the Venetian polychoral style.
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli (1554-1612)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major (The Romantic) 1878-80 version
This is the last release in PentaTone’s Bruckner Symphonies cycle with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The Romantic (the title is Bruckner’s and is written on the manuscript), like his Symphony No. 3, follows the tradition of the sinfonia ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra & Sir Neville Marriner
This album features new classical compositions by Howard Blake, all world premiere recordings. There is a story to the way Howard Blake and Sir Neville Marriner got to know each other: through the fact that they both have a house in ...
Composer: Howard Blake (1938)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 101 & Op. 106, Hammerklavier
This latest release is part of the Beethoven series with Mari Kodama. The pianist has established an international reputation for her musical sensitivity and outstanding virtuosity.
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
This recording marks the start of a new complete Tchaikovsky symphony cycle for PentaTone from Mikail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra. To hear such dramatic Tchaikovsky compositions performed ...
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - Francesca da Rimini
The second in a new Tchaikovsky Symphonies cycle. "Just to be clear from the outset, this is not only a great improvement on Mikhail Pletnev’s previous, rather low-voltage account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony ...
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” / Capriccio Italien
This is the third release in the new complete Tchaikovsky Symphony cycle. “It's far from just an updated clone of their earlier "Pathétique", which was serious fiery (E4717422). This one is a touch mellower in tone and style, ...
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Oregon Symphony under Carlos Kalmar performed this striking program titled 'Music for a Time of War' on their Carnegie Hall debut. These profound and moving works spoke musically directly to the audience and made an indelible impression.
Composer: Charles Ives (1874-1954), John Adams (1947), Walt Whitman, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brahms: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Brahms’s three violin sonatas are cherishable masterworks of the chamber repertoire, the First radiantly melodious, the Second autumnal and reflective, while the Third lurches dramatically from intense sadness to outbursts of searing intensity.
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Rondo brilliant, Op. 29
The young pianist Martin Helmchen has already been awarded two of the most important prizes in the music scene: the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and the ECHO Klassik. He received the Credit Suisse Award in September 2006.
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie / Etudes-Tableaux / Variations on a Theme of Corelli
In her early twenties the Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, belongs to the promising generation of today’s fine pianists.
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov; Fryderyk Chopin
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
This is second release in the ambitious project of conductor Marek Janowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform and record all of Wagner's operas together. And judging by the exceptionally high standard of this ...
Composer: Richard Wagner
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Grieg: Piano Concerto
Sa Chen has been called “a brilliant pianist” by Emmanuel Ax. Here she performs what are probably two of the best known of all piano concertos.
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov; Fryderyk Chopin, Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This England - Britten / Elgar / Vaughan Williams
The Oregon Symphony releases their second album with music director Carlos Kalmar at the helm. Entitled This England, the all-British record kicks off in grand style with Sir Edward Elgar's euphoric and energetic Cockaigne Overture.
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Benjamin Britten
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
Das Lied is considered the most personal of Mahler’s works. It represents a synthesis of the two great pillars in Mahler’s oeuvre, the symphony and the song. On the face of it, it is cycle of six orchestral songs.
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911), Hans Bethge
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
