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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
Subgenre:
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
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
Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance
Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss present their third Pentatone album with a recording of Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance. Schnittke composed the piece in 1988 to commemorate the Christianisation of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in 1988, and based it on anonymous Russian texts from the 16th century about guilt and repentance. ...
Composer: Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
"Love at Last" is pianist Lara Downes’ first Pentatone album, inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky. Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers around the globe. Spanning generations, continents and cultures, these diverse voices ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Countertenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, exploring the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate, the recorded works share a sublime and profound character, demonstrating ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After critically-acclaimed recordings of Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov continue their Pentatone Mahler cycle with a rendition of the composer’s Second, nicknamed “The Resurrection”. They are joined by soprano Christiane Karg, alto Elisabeth Kulman and the Prague Philharmonic Choir. Starting with a ..
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Rising star violinist Chloe Chua makes her recording debut on Pentatone together with the Singapore Symphony, presenting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons alongside Locatelli’s Harmonic Labyrinth. With the Four Seasons, Chua returns to a piece that’s very dear to her, and which she won the joint-first prize at the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
