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Remembering Tebaldi

In Loving Memory of La Voce D’angelo: Melody Moore pays tribute to the legendary soprano Renata Tebaldi, presenting a selection of arias and scenes by Rossini, Verdi, Boito, Catalani, Puccini, Mascagni, Giordano, Cilea and Alessandro Scarlatti, documenting the most important stages in the ...

Composer: Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Umberto Giordano (1867-1948), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Kodály, Bartók & Ligeti

Folk, Gypsy and Hungarian influences are very evident in these exuberant compositions. Appropriately, Lawrence Foster was decorated by the Romanian President for services to Romanian Music in 2003. This is a live performance by the Gulbenkian Orchestra. ...

Composer: Béla Bartók (1881–1945), Zoltan Kodály (1882-1967), György Ligeti (1923–2006)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux & Piano Sonata

This is Martin Helmchen’s first solo recital album on PentaTone. His recording of Mozart Concertos received excellent reviews and his ever increasing amount of concert performances are securing this talented young pianists reputation. ...

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Mozart: The Violin Concertos

"All of these Mozart recordings featuring the remarkable young violinist Julia Fischer have been favorably reviewed on this site and elsewhere. Now Pentatone is issuing them in this boxed set that also includes a DVD of excerpts from recording sessions for Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Sinfonia Concertante. ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn & Symphony No. 1

A live recording from the Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, March 2007. "Well, rather than mincing my words and having to hold you in suspense while you read the entire paragraph, I’ll cut to the chase and tell you that this has become not only my favourite performance of the Haydn Variations, but I’m having a hard time thinking about any other performance of the Brahms 1st ...

Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Russian Violin Concertos

This remarkable album marks the recording debut of German violinist Julia Fischer as well as the beginning of her extraordinary partnership with Russian-born conductor Yakov Kreizberg, which would result in numerous PENTATONE releases before the conductor’s untimely death in 2011. Together they tackle three ...

Composer: Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, EHWV 93.3 (Live)

Is it possible to administer at too early an age the intoxicating and gloriously sweet poison of opera, especially in an era of constant muzak? The clear answer is “No!”. In a splendidly moving new recording of Engelbert Humperdinck’s one-hit wonder Hansel and Gretel, Maestro Marek Janowski ...

Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Opera

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Wagner: Tannhäuser

This is the 6th installment of PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera’s with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a great collector’s item. After this release follows Der Ring des Nibelungen. ...

Composer: Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Opera

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Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Part III

Francesco Corti and il pomo d’oro continue their acclaimed series of Bach harpsichord concertos, now moving to the works for two harpsichords, BWV 1060-1062, together with Andrea Buccarella. Compared to the previous two instalments, the accompanying ensemble is small, allowing for maximal transparency and focus on the soloists. The greatest ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Schubert: Symphonies 4 & 5

Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra present the third instalment of their Schubert cycle on PENTATONE with a recording of the composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony. Just as with the Second and Third, Jacobs approaches these works as a symphonic pair, revealing contrasting aspects of Schubert’s personality and ...

Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Mahler: Symphony No. 5

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Rafael Payare make their Pentatone debut with Mahler’s 5th Symphony. The album is also the first recording under Payare’s tenure, and the beginning of a longer recording relationship with the label. For Payare, the Fifth is the last symphony that shows Mahler ...

Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Handel: Water & Fire

B’Rock is sparkling more than ever! As the court composer, Handel arranged a majestic water festival with scintillating sounds on the Thames. His Water Music is musical pomp and circumstance in three high-spirited suites. Handel also displayed his most festive side in his Music for the Royal Fireworks. Blaring brass and ...

Composer: George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Mendelssohn: Choral Works

The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and its artistic director Philipp Ahmann present a collection of Felix Mendelssohn's choral music, which arguably represents the pinnacle of German nineteenth-century religious music. Ranging across psalm settings, motets, Latin verses, the Deutsche Liturgie as well as the ethereal chorus Denn er hat seinen ...

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Maestro Marek Janowski, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir present Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (1859), together with a stellar cast, headed by Freddie De Tommaso (Riccardo), Lester Lynch (Renato) and Saioa Hernández (Amelia). Un ballo in maschera is Verdi’s tragicomic ...

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Opera

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Consolations

"Consolations" is Saskia Giorgini's second Liszt album, after her critically-acclaimed rendition of the composer's Harmonies poetiques et religieuses. Named after Liszt's six Consolations, the album also contains the Caprices-Valses, Valse Impromptu, Legendes and the world-famous Liebestraume. ...

Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Mehldau: The Folly of Desire

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly ...

Composer: Brad Mehldau (1970), Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Schubert: Unfinished & The Great Symphonies

Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, performing the composer’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies. While the two movements of the “Unfinished” symphony in B Minor reach a level of perfection despite the work’s apparent incompleteness, ...

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Lebensmuth, Schubert: Streichquartette Nr.1 & 15

Lebensmuth is the final episode of Signum Quartett’s acclaimed Schubert trilogy, in which early and late string quartets are combined with song arrangements created by the group’s violist Xandi van Dijk. Schubert’s First String Quartet in G Minor, written when he was 13, ...

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

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Broken Branches

Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. ...

Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626), Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), Giulio Caccini (1545-1618), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Sayyed Darwish (1892-1923), Fairuz (1934), Layale Chaker (1990), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Karina Canellakis offers the first fruit of her exclusive Pentatone collaboration with a recording of Bartók’s 4 Orchestral Pieces and Concerto for Orchestra, together with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, of which she is the Chief Conductor. The 4 Orchestral Pieces have a strong affinity with the stage works Duke ...

Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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