The Ruisi Quartet makes its recording debut on Pentatone with Big House, bringing together music by Matthew Locke, Joseph Haydn and Oliver Leith. Spanning nearly four centuries, this combination of composers establishes a harmonious as well as dissonant relationship between past, present and future. ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Matthew Locke (1622-1677)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
J.S. Bach & Pärt: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra
Arabella Steinbacher presents works for violin and orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach and Arvo Pärt, together with violinist Christoph Koncz, pianist Peter von Wienhardt and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Bach’s violin concertos have had a very special significance for Steinbacher ever since hearing the ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Arvo Pärt (1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Holland Baroque presents Bachs Königin, an album full of masterful organ works by J.S. Bach, transcribed for the orchestra by Judith and Tineke Steenbrink. These creative interpretations add unique colours and a fresh spirit to baroque monuments. Here is yet another chance to enjoy Bach’s genius. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Tenor Ian Bostridge and the late pianist Lars Vogt present two nocturnal Schubert songs. While Der Wanderer an den Mond has a folksy walking rhythm, the repetitive chords of Nacht und Träume create a sense of being suspended in time, fully immersed
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers"
The Clarion Choir and its Artistic Director Steven Fox make their Pentatone debut with a recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil, demonstrating their exceptional proficiency in Russian repertoire. The All-Night Vigil is an evening service that gradually moves towards daybreak, symbolizing the ...
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov present Bohuslav Martinů’s complete cello sonatas. These works belong to the most significant twentieth-century repertoire for cello and piano. Reflecting Martinů’s troubled existence, defined by ...
Composer: Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mari Kodama presents New Paths, exploring the young Johannes Brahms and his fascinating friendship with Clara and Robert Schumann. The album derives its title from Robert Schumann’s famous essay “Neue Bahnen”, in which he heralded the young Brahms as the most ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Star tenor Javier Camarena makes his Pentatone debut with Signor Gaetano, together with Gli Originali under the baton of Italian opera specialist Riccardo Frizza, presenting a carefully-curated exploration of Donizetti's greatest tenor arias. Besides famous excerpts from L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale and Roberto Devereux, this ...
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A dynamic discovery of Bach's very best, including sonatas, concertos, and suites. Join us as we journey through J.S. Bach's most famous repertoire. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Pentatone presents a new album full of world-premiere recordings of orchestral songs by Hans Sommer, sung by an excellent quartet of soloists – Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter and Benjamin Appl – together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Guillermo García Calvo. Sommer was a Liszt student whose operas were ...
Composer: Hans Sommer (1837-1922)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Molieri: Mozart and Salieri Arias
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor
After their critically-acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov continue their Pentatone Mahler cycle with a rendition of the composer’s Fifth. The Fifth Symphony marks an important turning point in Mahler’s symphonic output, away from the prominence of vocal movements in his previous symphonies. ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Rossini & Donizetti: French Bel Canto Arias
On her second solo album Lisette Oropesa has combined two of her greatest loves, the French language and Italian bel canto. This recording with the Dresdner Philharmonie under the baton of Corrado Rovaris showcases the variety of lesser-known and more popular works by Rossini and Donizetti, featuring arias that contain coloratura, lyricism, drama, ...
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Desolate, but Ultimately Consoling Swansong: Tenor Ian Bostridge completes his Pentatone trilogy of Schubert song cycles with a rendition of Schwanengesang, together with the renowned pianist Lars Vogt. Schwanengesang was compiled and published after Schubert’s death, and the pieces are literally among his swansongs. Ranging from the romantic ‘Ständchen’ ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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
