Classical CD

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...

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...

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...

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...

SECOND-HAND A captivating self-titled album from 2000 by the brightest star of the opera world, soprano Renée Fleming . This gem of classical music, released by Decca, brings together the most...

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter's mature style are already evident in the six major symphonies published in 1744, several years before he joined the famous musical life of the Mannheim court....

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter's mature style are already evident in the six large symphonies (series 1 and 2) published in 1744, several years before he joined the famous musical life of...

Pauliina Fred, flute Heidi Peltoniemi, cello Aapo Häkkinen, harpsichord Franz Xaver Richter's Sonata da camera shares many of the musical characteristics that make his symphonies so distinctive:...