Classical CD

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Mass in C Major (Op. 86) was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II in 1807. It is the second of Beethoven's two masses and is often overshadowed by the later...

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...

An album by pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, featuring Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. The album was released on 21 February 2020 on Decca Classics. The album has been well-received...

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...

Oskar Merikanto's Most Beautiful = Best of Oskar Merikanto is a popular compilation album that was released in 1993. It contains 20 of Oskar Merikanto's most beloved compositions, including...

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...

Commissioned by the Propaganda Department of the Soviet State Music Publishing House to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, the ‘Symphonic Dedication to October’ eventually...

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...

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...

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...