Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan present Brahms‘ two Cello Sonatas, alongside their arrangement of his Violin Sonata in G Major on the cello. This Brahms portrait is a logical next step after the duo’s acclaimed interpretation of Beethoven’s complete Cello Sonatas, released in 2022. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
An Idiomatic Interpretation Of Orchestral Dvořák Gems. Dvořák’s Legends and Slavonic Rhapsodies, recorded by regular guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Tomáš Netopil, marks the orchestra’s fourth recording featuring Czech composers in 2024’s Year of Czech Music. Dvořák wrote his Slavonic Rhapsodies just before the Slavonic Dances ...
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mandolinist Alon Sariel presents arrangements of Schubert’s Ave Maria, Ständchen, Der Leiermann and an excerpt from his Moments musicaux, together with harpist Anne-Sophie Bertrand. Thanks to a famous painting of Schubert playing the guitar, it is generally assumed that the composer was a seasoned guitarist too. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Renowned bass-baritone Adam Plachetka celebrates the Year of Czech Music with an anthology of Czech evening songs by Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Zdeněk Fibich and Josef Suk. All based on love poems for Vítězslav Hálek’s Večerní písně (Evening Songs), these songs provide a panorama of great Czech music, also zooming in on lesser-known repertoire. ...
Composer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900), Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Jacqueline is a powerful, award-winning new opera that dives into the real-life struggle between famed cellist Jacqueline du Pré and the multiple sclerosis that ravaged her body, mind, and talent – robbing her of her identity, her breathtaking musical gift, and ultimately her life. ...
Composer: Luna Pearl Woolf (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande & Verklärte Nacht
The Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and its Music Director Rafael Payare celebrate Arnold Schoenberg's 150th birthday with a recording of two of his late-Romantic masterworks: Verklarte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. Both pieces are based on stories evolving around love, jealousy, acceptance and forgiveness, and showcase Schoenberg's expressive harmonic language ...
Composer: Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Full Circle: Reflections on My Journey
Baritone Lester Lynch presents a highly personal collection of songs from Schubert, Brahms, and Mussorgsky. Full Circle: Reflections on my Journey is a musical voyage through the echoes of resilience - a beacon of hope amidst suffering and despair. These melodies are a reminder of how music can transform ...
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
In celebration of his 80th birthday, this four-disc set spans more than five decades of Michael Tilson Thomas' compositional career. It features 18 works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time. The deluxe collection also includes an extensive booklet containing composer's notes, ...
Composer: Michael Tilson Thomas (1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mari Kodama celebrates the Bruckner bicentenary year with a collection of piano works, most of which are rarely heard. While some of them, such as the Fantasie, Erinnerung and Stille Betrachtung, reveal the serious symphonist and church composer, the many dances included on this album illuminate a lighter side of the composer. In general, hearing his ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Fourteen years after her victory at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition, Yulianna Avdeeva documents her journey with the music of Frédéric Chopin. Voyage focuses on his late works, all composed while surrounded by nature, and Avdeeva has recorded them at the rustic Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, against ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Around Gershwin is a tribute by star accordionist Richard Galliano to George Gershwin, in which he interweaves his music with works by early 20th century composers such as Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Satie, Ravel and Fauré, as well as new compositions of his own. Seen through the lens of Galliano's masterful musicality, these pieces ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Richard Galliano (1950), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart Symphonies Nos. 29 & 33, Clarinet Concerto
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin continues its PENTATONE Mozart series with the composer’s 29th and 33rd symphonies. These works are coupled with his ravishingly beautiful Clarinet Concerto, performed by Ernst Schlader in the original edition for basset clarinet. Schlader, a specialist in historical instruments, has ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bruckner & Klose: String Quartets
Quatuor Diotima celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of Anton Bruckner with a recording of his String Quartet in C Minor, Rondo in C Minor and Theme with Variations in E-Flat Major, alongside the String Quartet in E-Flat Major from his pupil Friedrich Klose. Bruckner wrote these pieces as ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Friedrich Klose (1862–1942)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered
This album brings the glowing, cinematic Violin and Cello Concertos of Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, an important compositional voice in his own time, back into the limelight. Using an international all-star cast, the recording not only aims to re-establish de Hartmann’s oeuvre, but also to bring musicians together in times of war. ...
Composer: Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Butterfly Lovers Concerto & Paganini
Rising star violinist Chloe Chua presents a recording combining Chen Gang and He Zhanhao’s Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with Niccolò Paganini’s First Violin Concerto, performed together with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Rodolfo Barráez and Mario Venzago. ...
Composer: Chen Gang (b. 1935), He Zhanhao (b. 1933), Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Pianist Charlotte Hu (formerly known as Ching-Yun Hu) presents Liszt: Metamorphosis, her debut album for PENTATONE. On it, Charlotte explores Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt’s chameleonic and evolving approach to composing – the metamorphosis of his music spanning from his early works inspired by Beethoven to the abstract tonality of his later works, as ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The music accompanies Pim Zwier’s extraordinary documentary (shown at IDFA in 2023), about German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) and her love of plants and insects. Her study of the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies not only produced beautiful prints and engravings of this process, it was also the foundation of ...
Composer: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Saskia Giorgini presents Images, containing some of Claude Debussy’s most colourful piano works. Starting with tuneful early works such as the Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) and Deux arabesques, Giorgini gradually works towards later, more ambitious pieces such as the Estampes and the two sets of Images, from which the ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Dutch National Opera presents Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie (1917), with Marc Albrecht conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Ausrine Stundyte (Bianca), Nikolai Schukoff (Guido Bardi) and John Lundgren (Simone) as soloists. Eine florentinische Tragödie (1917) fully adheres to George Bernard Shaw’s famous dictum ...
Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
