Classical CD

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...

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...

The young players of the Swiss string ensemble Camerata du Léman make their recording debut with energetic performances of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an...

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...

“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...

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...

Svein Hundsnes is one of Norway's most important living composers. He has composed an extensive collection of music covering a range of lively styles, moving seamlessly from tonal and non-tonal...

Richard Clayderman's Essential Love Songs, released on March 2, 2020. This version of the Essential Love Songs album comes as a 2xCD digipak with six discs.

Jacques Casterede was one of many composers who refused to abandon tonality and traditional forms amid the stormy avant-garde of the 20th century. The Quintette for winds was written in 1953, the same...

Copland's iconic Third Symphony, which premiered in 1946, was described by the composer as "a wartime work—or more precisely, an end-of-war work—intended to reflect the euphoric spirit of...