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This recording by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Aapo Häkkinen and playing period instruments, contains all of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) incidental music for Goethe's...

Apart from his only opera, Fidelio, Beethoven's connection to the Vienna theater was largely through incidental music or songs that were added to other composers' works as supplementary...

The celebration of Princess Esterhazy's name day with a newly composed mass began in the 1790s, and Joseph Haydn continued the tradition for many years. In 1807, Beethoven commissioned a...

Critically acclaimed pianist Boris Giltburg performs Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, as well as Rondo, WoO 6, which Beethoven originally intended as the finale for his second piano concerto. Giltburg...

For audiences in the 19th century, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most beloved of all his piano concertos. It is the most clearly balanced in terms of high drama, tenderness, lyricism...

These works share the key of E-flat major, but represent two very different stages in the composer's life. Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, written when Beethoven was 13 years old, is one of his...

The Grammy-nominated Prism project by the Danish string quartet, which combines Bach's fugues, Beethoven's quartets, and works by later masters, is getting its fourth installment. The...

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British brilliance of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy Award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos....

The award-winning duo of Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt returns to the masterpieces of European chamber music with this new album, which features three violin sonatas from Ludwig van Beethoven's...

Joseph Swensen conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with an inner fire that infects everyone attending his concerts; for him, it represents Beethoven's ultimate achievement – a celebration of...

Beethoven's first stage work – a ballet score for a stage production directed by dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò, nephew of composer Luigi Boccherini. The overture remains popular...

Includes Beethoven's Italian arias and singspiel. Many of these pieces are quite rare on record.

Decca Classics is thrilled to announce Grammy Award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti's new baroque album. This is Benedetti's first album recorded with a period-instrument ensemble...

Soloists: Lynda Russell, Elizabeth Vaughn, Sarah Walker Orchestra, choir: English National Opera Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Mark Elder Director: Colin Graham Gloriana was born when Benjamin...

Soloists: Lynda Russell, Elizabeth Vaughn, Sarah Walker Orchestra, choir: English National Opera Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Mark Elder Director: Colin Graham Gloriana was born when Benjamin...

Conductor: Bernard Haitink Director: Hans Hulscher In this live recording made at the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Hector...

Conductor: Bernard Haitink Director: Hans Hulscher In this live recording made at the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Hector...

Marin Alsop conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein's boisterous satirical operetta Candide. Almost three decades after the composer's own iconic...

Luciano Pavarotti is arguably the most significant tenor of the 20th century. His career spanned 45 years, and each of his performances is unforgettable, especially LA BOHEME, TURANDOT, and AIDA....

Luciano Pavarotti is arguably the most significant tenor of the 20th century. His career spanned 45 years, and each of his performances is unforgettable, especially LA BOHEME, TURANDOT, and AIDA....

Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Eva Marton, Shirley Verrett Orchestra, choir: Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Choir, San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Choir Conductor: Adam Fischer, Maurizio Arena...

Soloists: Montserrat Caballé (tenor), José Carreras (tenor) “As a child, I listened to opera and studied music. I knew what I wanted and what I liked, and I dreamed of making it happen.” José...

Soloists: Montserrat Caballé (tenor), José Carreras (tenor) “As a child, I listened to opera and studied music. I knew what I wanted and what I liked, and I dreamed of making it happen.” José...

This CD features works for piano and string orchestra, and string orchestra and solo string quartet by Ernest Bloch ja Ferrucio Busoni. Tracks: Bloch, Ernest Concerto Grosso nro 1 pianolle ja...

Their recording of the American Quartet and String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106 (Gramophone Award – Recording of the Year) elevated the Pavel Haas Quartet to the ranks of the finest performers of...

Johannes Brahms' two cello sonatas are in stark contrast to each other. This is not only due to the fact that they were composed more than twenty years apart. Brahms favored pairs of works for the...

One of Johannes Brahms' sunniest works, the Violin Concerto in D major, was composed in the summer of 1878, which Brahms spent on the idyllic shores of Lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria. By...

The term sinfonietta is generally used to describe a work that is smaller or lighter in scale than a normal symphony. It only became common in the first half of the 20th century, when the three works...

24-year-old Canadian pianist Bruce Liu was the Winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2021. This album was recorded live during the various stages of the...

Exceptional pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition, has recorded Tchaikovsky's most famous solo piano work “The Seasons” for his second studio album. With his...

The beginning of the most comprehensive edition of Bruckner's symphonies, containing all 19 available versions. Bruckner burst out of the confines of the cathedral by using the most secular form...

Orchestra, choir: Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst Venue: Stiftsbasilika St. Florian, Austria (Nos. 4, 5) / Severance Hall, Cleveland This concert collection features five symphonies...

Musica Sequenza & Burak Ozdemir's Les Indes Galantes, released on August 25, 2006. This version of Les Indes Galantes is available on a single CD.

The third part of Fridrich Bruk's (born in Ukraine in 1937, but living in Finland since 1974) recent symphonic output brings two astonishingly vibrant works from the octogenarian composer. Both...