Visions offers Tamara Stefanovich and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s return to Pentatone, presenting a programme revolving around Messiaen’s intoxicating Visions de l‘amen for two pianos. This centrepiece is surrounded by Enescu’s Carillon nocturne, Knussen’s Prayer Bell Sketch and Clock ...
Composer: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), George Enescu (1881-1955), Oliver Knussen (1952-2018), Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
On her third Pentatone album Brahms Lieder, Anna Lucia Richter returns to the German lied, making her recording debut as a mezzo-soprano with a recital of Brahms songs, together with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. Brahms is particularly suitable for this recording debut as his songs fit the mezzo-soprano voice like a glove, and the ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Sean Shibe’s second Pentatone album Lost & Found is an ecstatic journey containing music by outsiders, mystics, visionaries, who often have more than one identity and lay claim to various artistic traditions, genres, or audiences. The repertoire ranges from Hildegard von Bingen to Olivier Messiaen, Moondog, Julius Eastman, Bill Evans, Chick Corea, ...
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Chick Corea (1941-2021), Daniel Kidane (1986), Oliver Leith (1990), Meredith Monk (1943), Bill Evans (1929-1980), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Julius Eastman (1940-1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to Pentatone together with soprano Christina Landshamer, presenting La Passione, a collection of dazzling concert arias on love, longing and loss by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn, paired with the latter’s “La Passione” Symphony. Ranging from pastoral simplicity to exuberant outrage, the ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
Leonard Bernstein’s music for Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical and film West Side Story is among the most colourful and significant pieces of the twentieth century, blending together classical, jazzy and Latin inspirations. Houston Symphony and Andres Orozco-Estrada present the West Side Story Suite, a string of ...
Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B’Rock Orchestra complete their Schubert cycle on Pentatone with the composer’s two most famous symphonies, the “Unfinished” and “Great”. In his extensive liner notes, Jacobs develops a theory that the B minor Symphony did not remain “unfinished”, but was deliberately left unfinished, ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
With enchanting works from composers such as Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel, performances from French classical artists including Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Julia Fuchs, and romantic works evocative of French history and culture, French Classical Selections offers an assortment of ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Schoenberg, Messiaen & Ravel: Orchestral Works
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and it's Music and Artistic Director Jonathan Nott continue their acclaimed series of 20th-century masterpieces on PENTATONE, together with star pianist Francesco Piemontesi, presenting piano concertos by Ravel and Schoenberg alongside Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
RIMAVERA III the vessel is the third of six albums in a momentous series encompassing 81 world premieres for solo cello. This digital album presents 9 new commissions by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT for groundbreaking, multi-GRAMMY nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz. Composers from diverse backgrounds respond to Sandro Botticelli’s enigmatic painting, ...
Composer: Marcos Balter (1974), Layale Chaker (1990), Josquin Despres (1440-1521), Philip Glass (1937), Osnat Netzer (1979), Lewis Spratlan (1940)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Alon Sariel makes his PENTATONE debut with Plucked Bach, a programme exploring Bach’s cello suites performed on different mandolins, lutes, baroque guitar and oud, concluding with Sariel’s own Bach-inspired Mandolin Partita. Bach’s suites are often considered to be “the cellist’s Bible”, but the transferability of his music between ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On her second PENTATONE album Sinnbild, soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller presents an enchanting collection of orchestral songs by Richard Strauss, together with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. Culminating in the famous Four Last Songs, the program explores all forms of farewell ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Sean Shibe presents three pieces by the legendary self-taught composer Moondog, also known as “The Viking of Sixth Avenue”. Shibe’s spacious electric guitar gives Sea Horse, Pastoral II and High on a Rocky Ledge a unique dimension. ...
Composer: Moondog (1916-1999)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss return to PENTATONE with a world-premiere recording of David Lang’s the writings. For this cycle, Lang has chosen five texts from the Old Testament tied to Jewish holidays. These writings share a universal appeal, a focus on what it means to be human. Lang’s austere and repetitive score ...
Composer: David Lang (1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Dresdener Philharmonie, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and conductor Daniel Oren present Verdi’s masterpiece La Traviata, together with a stellar cast including René Barbera as Alfredo, Lester Lynch as Germont, and world star soprano Lisette Oropesa as Violetta. Verdi’s opera from 1853 was revolutionary in the sense that it ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Flautist Ana de la Vega’s fourth PENTATONE album My Paris is a declaration of love to the glorious French capital and its rich flute history, as well as a trip down memory lane, featuring some of the greatest gems of French music history, including works by Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Satie, Poulenc, Mozart, Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, Von Paradis, as well as Bizet....
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig close their acclaimed PENTATONE Brahms cycle with the composer’s Third and Fourth Symphonies. Compared to the epic First and gloomily pastoral Second, Brahms’s Third Symphony is a glorious exploration of the chamber-musical possibilities of the symphony orchestra. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Holland Baroque presents Minne, an improvised programme inspired by the love poetry of medieval mystic Hadewijch from Brabant. Hadewijch was a 13th-century beguine who wrote an impressive oeuvre of love poetry, providing an original, female perspective on medieval life. For this project, Holland Baroque works together ...
Composer: Judith Steenbrink (1977), Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), Melchior Franck (1580-1639)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan present a complete recording of Beethoven’s cello sonatas. Composed over a span of nearly twenty years, these works not only contain some of the most appealing and lyrical music Beethoven wrote, but also allow the listener to trace his exceptional artistic development. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Johannes Moser, Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead, Michael Fabiano, Christopher Jacobson, Arabella Steinbacher, Alasdair Beatson, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès, Sanford Sylvan, Matt Haimovitz, Eric Vloeimans, Jasper van Hulten, Gulli Gudmundsson, Michelle Breedt, Peter Auty, John Hancock, Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Iestyn Davies, Sarah Connolly ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
