Classical CD

This four-CD box set (barcode 5099997360025) features Paavo Berglund conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Jean Sibelius's complete seven symphonies, alongside key orchestral works like...

The sixth part of the series presents a panorama of Selim Palmgren's works, including Ungdom, Op. 28, and Three Pieces, Op. 54, which includes Raindrops and Moonlight. The previous parts can be...

Buson's student Selim Palmgren was one of the most important Finnish composers and pianists of his time, and his works intended for pedagogical use, such as Kevätauerta, remain popular. This...

Busoni's student Selim Palmgren was one of the leading Nordic composers of the early decades of the 20th century. His wide-ranging piano music was performed and recorded by the greatest artists of...

Selim Palmgren studied under Busoni and developed an impressive technique, later becoming one of the leading Nordic composer-pianists of his generation. This fourth volume of Palmgren's piano...

Busoni's student Selim Palmgren was the most frequently performed Finnish composer after Sibelius for many years. With a portfolio of nearly 400 piano works, his contribution to the prestige of...

Jouni Somero continues his acclaimed review of Palmgren's piano works with the seventh installment of this series. The program includes many rarities and first recordings, and the works are by one...

Paul Barritt & Catherine Edwards: The English Kreisler – Violin Music of Albert Sammons SECOND-HAND CD Discover a delightful and rare treasure from the golden age of violin miniatures. Released by...

Croatian-born Lovro Peretic has chosen a panoramic program that looks back to the 18th century and forward to the present day. This recital features Peretic's own arrangements of Brahms's...

CHANGE IS GONNA COME Petri Kumela guitar Variations for Guitar Petri Kumela’s new CD, Change is Gonna Come , features compositions from every century from the 1500s (except the 1600s) to the present...

Virtuosos Face Off The new album A Virtuoso faceoff features music by two major Baroque composers, Heinrich Biber (1644–1704) and Georg Muffat (1653–1704). The composers’ careers overlapped in...

From 1950 onwards, Allan Pettersson worked mainly on monolithic symphonies, for which he is best known. But before that, while still studying at the Stockholm Conservatory and later as a violist with...

This 2011 Naxos release by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), conducted by Pietari Inkinen, completes their acclaimed Jean Sibelius symphony cycle. The album features masterpieces from...

This Naxos release of Jean Sibelius’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 is part of a critically acclaimed Sibelius symphony cycle recorded in Wellington between 2009 and 2010 by Pietari Inkinen and the New...

This 2011 album conducted by Pietari Inkinen features a total of seven tracks, with the first four covering Jean Sibelius's national romantic and heroic Symphony No. 2 , and the final three...

Plus Ensemble: Erkki Lahesmaa (cello), Mikko Luoma (accordion) & Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet) feat. Mikael Helasvuo (flute), Jan Söderblom (violin) & Jukka Tiensuu (piano) Jukka Tiensuu Tango...

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...

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...

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...

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 CD features piano compositions by Jean Sibelius and was released in 1995 by the acclaimed Finnish record label Ondine (ODE 847-2), featuring the distinguished pianist Ralf Gothóni as the...

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 CD – Two Late-Period Masterpieces on One Album! Experience the sonic brilliance of Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of Britain's greatest composers, with...

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 (SACD) – London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Antonio Pappano Immerse yourself in the definitive sound of British symphonic music. This exceptional Hybrid SACD...

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...