Classical

Recordings for YLE 1969–2004 Liisa Pohjola, piano A spectacular overview of pianist Liisa Pohjola's life's work is now available as a three-CD collection. Her repertoire has covered the...

Lauri Porra is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and curator. In addition to his long-standing collaboration with Moomin Characters Ltd, his musical career is remarkably diverse. As the...

Lauri Porra is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and curator. In addition to his long-standing collaboration with Moomin Characters Ltd, his musical career is remarkably diverse. As the...

The paths of our thoughts, fantasies, and dreams are often complex. Since ancient times, the labyrinth has been a symbol of life itself, with its paths, crossroads, dead ends, and odysseys. In some of...

The third album released on the Cleveland Orchestra label follows the "old and new" combination of the previous release and includes recordings by Prokofiev and Schnittke that cover both...

This is the first release in Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's review of all seven Prokofiev symphonies. Karabits has had access to the Prokofiev family archive, and the...

Signum Classics is proud to present superstar soprano Angela Gheorghiu's first album on the Grammy Award-winning label. Described as "the world's most brilliant and gifted opera...

Soloists: Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Álvarez, Ruggero Raimondi Orchestra, choir: Orchestra e Coro dell’ Arena di Verona Conductor: Daniel Oren Director: Hugo de Ana Italian opera producer Hugo de...

Soloists: Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Claudio Sgura Orchestra, choir: Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Children's Choir of the Teatro Carlo Felice Conductor: Marco Boemi...

Kari Kriikku, clarinet Gabriel Suovanen, baritone Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Hannu Lintu, conductor This recording features Kari Kriikku ("physically imposing and an Olympic-level...

This collection of recordings is particularly meaningful to me because it chronicles my growth as an orchestral composer from my student years—when the Marimba Concerto was composed—to more mature...

Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra pay tribute to Arvo Pärt, who will celebrate his 90th birthday in 2025. The Estonian composer has been part of Paavo Järvi's life since...

Quartet Ajaton has released their third album Fin 23.1.2026. The group's innovative musicians now delve into the core emotions of Finnish tradition: tangos, Sibelius and folk melodies breathe new...

Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto was composed while he was studying at the Moscow Conservatory, and it was completely reworked before he left Russia in 1917 and again in 1919. It is difficult...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's symphonic career got off to a difficult start with the premiere of his First Symphony. Today, the First Symphony is recognized as one of the great Russian symphonic works of...

The second of Boris Giltburg's Rachmaninoff recordings includes the ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 2 and Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33. Etudes-tableaux

The previous concerto recording in this series was Concerto No. 2, catalog number 8.573629, about which Gramophone wrote: "A combination of freshness and generosity of spirit and soul gives this...

Yevgeny Sudbin has been recording Sergei Rachmaninoff's works for piano and orchestra for almost 10 years. The journey began in the United States in 2008 with his fourth piano concerto, described...

This recording by Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is part of their widely acclaimed cycle of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphonies, juxtaposing two of the composer's...

It was on American soil that Antonín Dvoák (1841–1904) began the composition of his Cello Concerto. Free of all prejudice, he had taken a keen interest in Amerindian and Afro-American cultures...

Conductor Robert Trevino's fourth album on Ondine focuses on the late works of composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016). Rautavaara is one of Finland's most famous composers after Sibelius...

The Czech Bohuslav Martinu and the Finnish Einojuhani Rautavaara may not seem to have much in common, but both have adopted an attitude free of musical puritanism and have constantly found new sources...

Ravel grew up in Paris during the Belle Époque, about thirty years before 1914, when Paris was the undisputed artistic center of the world. At the end of the 19th century, he began his studies at the...

SECOND-HAND CD Award-winning conductor René Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra complete their Schubert pentatone cycle with the composer's two most famous symphonies, the Unfinished and the...

In this majestic production of Verdi’s Don Carlo, Riccardo Chailly’s qualities as a Verdi conductor are brilliantly displayed in the dramatic precision and transparent instrumental detail he draws...

Soloists: Soile Isokoski, Johan Botha, Sophie Koch, Daniela Fally, Peter Mati, Jochen Schmeckenbecher Orchestra, choir: Vienna State Opera Orchestra Conductor: Christian Thielemann Venue: Vienna State...

Soloists: Soile Isokoski, Johan Botha, Sophie Koch, Daniela Fally, Peter Mati, Jochen Schmeckenbecher Orchestra, choir: Vienna State Opera Orchestra Conductor: Christian Thielemann Venue: Vienna State...

Christoph von Dohnányi Director: Claus Guth Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In this fascinating production by...

Soloists: Hakan Hagegard, Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos Orchestra, choir: San Francisco Opera Orchestra Conductor: Donald Runnicles Director: Stephen Lawless Capriccio is a somewhat unique work in...

Soloists: Adrianne Pieczonka, Angelika Kirchschlager, Miah Persson Orchestra, choir: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Choir Conductor: Semyon Bychkov Director: Robert Carsen Arthaus...

Soloists: Adrianne Pieczonka, Angelika Kirchschlager, Miah Persson Orchestra, choir: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Choir Conductor: Semyon Bychkov Director: Robert Carsen Arthaus...

Soloists: Camilla Nylund, Michèle Losier, Nadine Sierra, Günther Groissböck, Roman Trekel Orchestra, choir: Staatskapelle Berlin Conductor: Zubin Mehta Director: André Heller The Viennese...

Soloists: Camilla Nylund, Michèle Losier, Nadine Sierra, Günther Groissböck, Roman Trekel Orchestra, choir: Staatskapelle Berlin Conductor: Zubin Mehta Director: André Heller The Viennese...

Soloists: Marjana Lipovšek, Eva Johansson, Melanie Diener Orchestra, choir: Zurich Opera Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Director: Martin Kušej The Zurich Opera's second...

Soloists: Marjana Lipovšek, Eva Johansson, Melanie Diener Orchestra, choir: Zurich Opera Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Director: Martin Kušej The Zurich Opera's second...

Soloists: Erika Sunnegårdh, Mark S. Doss, Robert Brubaker Conductor: Nicola Luisotti Director: Gabriele Lavia Oscar Wilde describes his work Salomé as containing “refrains whose recurring motifs...

This highly acclaimed production of Strauss's opera Salome at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is the work of German director Nikolaus Lehnhoff. The lead role is played by Angela Denoke, who gives a...