Classical

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...

Born in Ukraine, Thomas de Hartmann (1885–1956), a student of both Arensky and Taneyev, achieved fame as a composer in Russia in the early 1900s, and his concert music was later played by some of...

My free life at the Four Walls Theater began with concert performances in 1992 and thereafter, followed by numerous stage performances with dancers in Finland and Russia. John Cage's collaboration...

180gr. 2-LP High Quality, Gatefold Sleeve, Reissue Brussels Philharmonic/Stephane Deneve/M. Herzog Works by Henry Purcell, Chistoph Gluck, Max Bruch, Maurice Ravel, Jules Massenet, Richard Wagner...

Cappella Amsterdam and conductor Daniel Reuss' interpretation of Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen is one of the most acclaimed recordings of the work. This album, released on the harmonia Mundi...

SECOND-HAND LP Carlos Kleiber: New Year’s Concert 1989 – Vienna Philharmonic (used LP) is a legendary concert recording in which Kleiber conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a traditional New...

Johannes Ernst's saxophone is a true chameleon, and on his GENUIN CD he performs works composed for the soprano saxophone by Friedrich Cerhan, Georg Katzer, and Christian Laub. Perhaps the most...

David Chaillou writes about his new publication: “The word ‘legend’ brings to mind a distant, wonderful story that is reinvented every time it is told. There is no longer any present or past; we...

Soloists: Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette) Orchestra, choir: Czech National Opera, Kühn Mixed Choir (Prague), Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Anton Guadagno...

Soloists: Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette) Orchestra, choir: Czech National Opera, Kühn Mixed Choir (Prague), Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Conductor: Anton Guadagno...

Second-hand 2 vinyl LP set, Gatefold Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Daniel Baremboim - Anton Bruckner: Symphony Nr. 8 c-moll, Te Deum DG 2741 007

“Some of the finest opera arias ever written” is Stephen Hough’s brilliant description of the Nocturnes, and it is key to his intensely lyrical interpretations of these most perfect bel canto...

Mertanen, Janne, piano Frederic Chopin : Night Music 3 CD BOX SET Tracks: 21 Nokturnoa 10 Masurkkaa 3 Etydiä Cantabile B-duuri Preludi Des-duuri op. 28 nro 15

Star violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor John Storgårds perform two significant British violin concertos on this album, written almost a century apart, in 1910...

SECOND-HAND SACD This highly acclaimed SACD release from Ondine captures Béla Bartók's most beloved orchestral work in a way that is second to none. It is a work that defined the direction of...

SECOND-HAND SACD A recording of the inaugural concert of the massive Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ (the largest concert hall organ in the United States) at Philadelphia's Verizon Hall....

Domenico Cimarosa's operas were remarkably successful and were performed and reprised in opera houses across Europe. His success in his hometown of Naples led to court appointments and royal...

Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet album titled "Memorias: Astor Piazzolla Memories in 6 Tableaux" Memorias is clair-obscur’s birthday present for Astor Piazzolla, who would have celebrated...

Soloists: Rodney Gilfry, Isabel Rey, Michael Volle Orchestra, choir: Zurich Opera Choir and Orchestra Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf A mysterious, childlike woman, a murder...