Classical

On this recording, piano virtuoso Lang Lang, conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic meet to perform the masterpieces of early 20th-century modernism. The album includes two technically...

Lyric Pieces Vol.1 is an album by Edvard Grieg released in 2023. The album is a classical music CD.

Austrian composer Thomas Larcher (born 1963) is one of the greatest symphonists of our time. This recording by the Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu includes the first recording of...

This Warner Classics two-CD box set, released in 2012 , brings together Norwegian star pianist Leif Ove Andsnes's critically acclaimed interpretations of Sergei Rachmaninoff's all four piano...

A performance that reveals a whole new dimension to Brahms' most monumental work. Iain Farrington's arrangement—the orchestral forces condensed into an instrumental octet inspired by the...

SECOND-HAND CD Somewhere: The Leonard Bernstein Album is a classical music compilation CD (UPC: 028943925129) released by Deutsche Grammophon in 1993 to honor the legacy of the legendary American...

Bach: Sei Solo is an album released by Leonidas Kavakos in 2022. The album is a 2-CD set of classical music. Complete sonatas and partitas. One of the masterpieces of the violin. A new album from one...

Many talented artists have been left behind in the world of classical music due to gender, ethnicity or socio-economic background. It is essential for the development of music to recognize that we...

One of Finland’s most interesting solo violinists, Linda Suolahti, is seen as a significant trendsetter in Finnish art music, having impressed with her courage as an organiser of events and as an...

This album is one of the most acclaimed violin concerto recordings of the 2010s. Batiashvili has been praised for not succumbing to overinterpretation. Sibelius has a cool Nordic style, while...

Finlandia was released in 1999 on CD as part of the Poptorin Parhaat series. The album was released by A Play Collection and features well-known orchestral and classical works by the Finnish master...

World premiere recordings of five saxophone concertos that deserve a place in the repertoire. Includes the first saxophone concerto by American composer John Beach Cragun and the first major work by...

Soloists: Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro), László Polgár (Rocco) Orchestra, choir: Zurich Opera House choir and orchestra Conductor: Nikolaus...

The Deutsche Oper in Berlin had only opened its doors on September 24, 1961, when it began preparing for its 50th anniversary celebrations. How was this possible? Had it fallen into some kind of time...

Soloists: Sean Panikkar, Sarah Maria Sun, Anna Maria Chiuri, Antonio Yang, Musa Ngqungwana, Victor Afung Lauwers Orchestra, choir: Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher Director: Jan...

This programme presents a fascinating excursion through the flute literature from 1893 to 1957, providing a glimpse into the evolution of the sonatina – a title suggesting music of greater brevity...

This new album continues Ondine's award-winning series of orchestral works by Witold Lutosawski (1913–1994) and the Radio Symphony Orchestra. The series has garnered numerous awards, including a...

Mahler 2 is Philharmonia Records' second album; it was released after the first album, Santtu conducts Strauss. “[Also speaking of Zarathustra] Rouval's performance in both works is...

The shimmering upper registers of the strings at the beginning of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony evoke the breath of spring and surely signaled the dawn of a new symphonic era to its very first...

Arnold Schönberg's student Erwin Stein arranged Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony for chamber orchestra. The premiere took place in 1921, with Schönberg conducting the work at one of his...

This recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, conducted by its music director Paavo Järvi, is the first complete recording of Mahler's symphonies. Järvi has...

One of Simon Rattle's first concert programs as the new chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony. The performances marked the beginning of a...

In November 2021, even before taking up his post as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle began a series of Mahler symphonies with a performance of the Ninth Symphony...

For its final concert of the 2021–22 season and Osmo Vänskä's last concert as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra decided to perform Mahler's monumental Eighth Symphony, which calls...

The performances given by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Isarphilharmonie on November 26 and 27, 2021, marked the beginning of a new chapter in the orchestra's interpretation of...

This album presents a selection of works by three composers of the same generation: all three were born in the 1750s and wrote music in the European classical style of the 18th century, all three...