Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano
"In the summer of 1989, when I was 15, my `love affair' with Alfred Schnittke's music began", recalls Daniel Hope. 3 years later the violinist became acquainted with the composer, studying with & performing for Schnittke many of his works over the next years. "A little more than 20 ...
Composer: Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Puccini: La fanciulla del West, SC 78
Lawrence Foster conducts Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910), together with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Cluj-Napoca and a cast of seasoned Puccini singers, including Melody Moore (Minnie), Marius Vlad (Dick Johnson) and Lester Lynch (Jack Rance). Puccini's 'Spaghetti Western'...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Revered since the height of the Classical era up to the simmering years of the 20th century, the string quartet represented an ideal genre to which composers entrusted their most innovative ideas. The Modigliani Quartet illuminates these brilliant masterpieces, each bearing witness ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bela Bartok
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123
Written between 1818 and 1823, Beethoven's Missa solemnis was the result of intensive theological and musical research in the library of its dedicatee, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. It is, in Beethoven's own view, his most ambitious composition. On this recording, René Jacobs shows us that it is also his ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
With Tango, the accordionist Pascal Contet steps off the beaten path to explore the repertoire of Piazzolla's precursors. He bears homage to the greatest tango titles with a set of contemporary arrangements, rounding things off with two original works, Stras Medianoche and Valentino Suite. ...
Composer: Graciela Pueyo, Agustín Bardi, Carlos Gardel, Juan D'Arienzo, Astor Piazzolla, Eduardo Arolas, Christophe Julien
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Trios for piano, clarinet and cello, Ops. 11 & 38
Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro dedicates his new album to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth. This album was recorded in Paris, at La Seine Musicale, for the French label Paraty and internationally distributed by Harmonia Mundi PIAS. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri terzo & quarto
Following the acclaim which met their double-album set devoted to the first two books of Gesualdo’s madrigals (2020 Gramophone Award), Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants now focus on the composer’s Ferrara period. ‘The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Wagner: Meistersinger Prelude / Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8
Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig’s performances of Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8, coupled with Wagner’s Meistersinger Prelude is out now on Deutsche Grammophon! “In this symphony, Bruckner has formulated everything very clearly: the wonderful themes are clearly ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
“The album’s title ADELA comes from a song by Rodrigo which constitutes the emotional culmination of our duo’s programme. What counts is not the name, but the person we love and long for. Everyone certainly has such a person, and so we hope that each listener will find on our CD something close to his or her heart.” ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pianist Lars Vogt’s new solo album release is dedicated to the piano works of Leoš Janácek (1854–1928), one of the most original voices among the 20th century composers. This album includes three of the composer’s most well-known and most extensive solo piano works. ...
Composer: Leoš Janácek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Unerhört - Outrageaous. Krämerspiegel And Other Songs
A much welcome recital of well-known and lesser-known Strauss Lieder by Daniel Behle, Opus Klassik prize winner and “Singer of the Year 2020”, accompanied by Oliver Schnyder. The album offers a selection of atmospheric songs such as ”Winterweihe”, “Winterliebe”, “Waldseligkeit”, “Traum durch ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The kaleidoscopic warriors were not long into their 2019 Tascam Tapes European Tour when the Covid19 pandemic broke and they, like so many others, had to turn back and head home. However, DeWolff is not a band to sit still. When it came to studio album number nine, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues-Rock
With Røta, her debut album at Berlin Classics, Ragnhild Hemsing presents her Norwegian roots on the violin and Hardanger fiddle, exploring her identity and the connection to her musical education. Central to this is the relationship between classical music and Norwegian folk music as well as the ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Reduziert auf den reinen Sound ihrer Instrumente, ermitteln Pianist Andreas Feith und Saxophonist Markus Harm auf ihrem gleichnamigen Album die Frage „What’s New“ – Was gibt’s Neues. Wir lauschen der Unterhaltung zweier Könner, die bei der Interpretation von Standards und Eigenkompositionen ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Christopher Gunning: Symphonies 6 & 7, Night Voyage
Following the celebrated releases of Gunning’s Symphonies Nos. 2, 10 & 12 in 2019 and his concertos for Violin and Cello with the piece ‘Birdflight’ in 2020, Signum presents the recording of Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 as well as his piece ‘Night Voyage’, ...
Composer: Christopher Gunning
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Ondines releases on Baltic composers continue with a new exciting release featuring recent orchestral compositions by New York-based Lithuanian composer ibuokle Martinaityte (b. 1973) composed within a span of six years performed by Lithuanian orchestras conducted by the young ...
Composer: Zibuokle Martinaityte (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50
Of particular importance to Eisler was the principle of synthesis, working with a variety of musical aesthetics, and merging them to an autonomous whole… albeit always with an eye to also wanting to “change the world” with his music. The October Revolution of 1917 and the assumption ...
Composer: Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Over the course of time there have been many overlooked artists in classical music, because of their race and/or gender. It is important to acknowledge that we have not yet heard the whole story due to this sidelining of voices. Composers Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge- ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
