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It was important to me when making a Mendelssohn album to include both Fanny and Felix. It's only in the last few decades that we've started to hear what Fanny was composing - it's amazing music, and I'm glad to be playing it." -...

Lucie celebrates the legacy of Dutch recorder player and conductor Frans Br?ggen (1934-2014), a true pioneer of the early music revival. Br?ggen amassed a remarkable collection of historic recorders dating from the 1680s-1740s, and with special access granted by Br?ggen's widow, they have now...

Music for a New Century

The newly recorded album - which features Buddy Holly's utterly distinctive original vocals and guitar playing set to exquisite arrangements performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - is the poignant realization of a dream Holly first explored just four months before his tragic death...

Henry Purcell: Fantazias

Marc-André Hamelin - "Found Objects / Sound Objects". Join Marc-André Hamelin on a fearless voyage into the extremities of piano music. Music by Frank Zappa, John Cage, Salvatore Martirano, John Oswald, Stefan Wolpe, Yehudi Wyner and Hamelin himself, all pioneers in their approach to...

Gulda was equipped with a special affinity and an ideal mindset for Mozart's music, with a special closeness of the interpreter to the composer: each garnered acclaim as a child prodigy and were gifted improvisers with a kind of provocateur and penchant for irreverent...

For the first time, the complete recordings of the Austrian pianist Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) are presented in one collection, including 84 CDs and a DVD in an Original Jackets Collection. More than 50 years of recording history: from the recordings of the 17-year-old exceptional...

Silvestrov: Silent Songs

Conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Randall Goosby performs Max Bruch's Violin Concerto and both of Florence Price's Violin Concertos. Recorded by the Grammy-winning team behind Yannick's Florence Price Symphonies 1 & 3.

Originally recorded in 1974, Dizzy's Big 4 consists of Joe Pass on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, Mickey Roker on drums, and, of course, the legendary Dizzy Gillespie; one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Jazz trumpeters of all time. This is truly...

El na Garanea's supple, seductive mezzo is aflame with the neon hues and rhythmic dash of Romany in excerpts from beguiling Gypsy roles in opera and operetta. Stand alone numbers add to the panache of Habanera. With gorgeous pieces eliciting every gift Elina Garanea...

Pl?nio Fernandes - "Bacheando" / In his sophomore album, Brazilian guitarist Pl?nio Fernandes explores the enduring genius of J.S. Bach, the vibrant musical culture of Brazil, and all the richness in between. Alongside Bach's music, Fernandes performs works by Heitor Villa-Lobos and other Brazilian...

Sondheim In The City

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2023 release. Roger Eno's second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon invites listeners to reflect on the nature of sound and silence. The Skies, They Shift Like Chords. Contains a dozen tracks that express nostalgia for something lost while projecting a sense of something timeless,...

Two CDs + Blu-Ray. Filmed and recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre and presented on CD/Blu-ray in Dolby Atmos, this performance from Good Friday 2021 marked Sir John Eliot Gardiner's return to the stage. He says: "I recorded the piece for the first time for...

The Ellington Suites is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington which collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971 and 1972. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. Interesting fact: Ellington wrote the Queens...

A new collection of songs, personally selected by the world's biggest streaming "classical artist" - Ludovico Einaudi, from across more than 25 years of music making. This remastered double album explores music from across Einaudi's catalogue, unearthing hidden gems from across 9 albums. Includes...

Seven Days Walking explores the idea of the same walk done over seven days, but each day the experience is different due to many factors - the weather, the season, the walker's mood, the appearance of different wildlife, a new observation within the landscape,...

Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In a Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time.

The Danish String Quartet's Grammy-nominated Prism project links Bach fugues, late Beethoven quartets and works by modern masters. In volume two of the series, Bach's Bb minor, Beethoven's Op. 130 is joined with Schnittke's Quartet No.3 (1983). As the quartet explains, "A beam of...

Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. CHANT: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL, is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; it's power is timeless and universal....

A concert in Baden-Baden's Festspielhaus ended to euphoric applause, with no one knowing who was at whose feet. The conductor, the orchestra, the audience, or all together the composer, Brahms? The reason for the enthusiasm was his Second Symphony, "Lichtentaler," because he had completed...

Together with the Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly explores the iconic film scores of Nino Rota in a new collection, The Fellini Album, on Decca Classics. Released to mark 40 years since Rota’s death in April 1979, the album contains music from classic Federico...

Verdi Choruses

Renaud Capu‡on and Martha Argerich came together in April 2022 for a joint recital at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence. Their extraordinary rapport comes across in this performance of 3 of the repertoire's finest violin sonatas, captured live in a concert they dedicated to...

Canadian Brass

Award winning Canadian pianist David Braid is joined by the legendary brass group Canadian Brass in a full album of original music written by David Braid. Inspired and evocative, together they create new sounds that are intimate, spontaneous and warm. The album has affinities,...

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Canadian Brass

Canadian Brass

Rudolf Buchbinder is one of the legendary performers of our time. The authority of a career spanning more than 60 years is uniquely combined with esprit and spontaneity in his piano playing. Tradition and innovation, faithfulness and freedom, authenticity, and open-mindedness merge in his...

Rudolf Buchbinder - "Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Live From Salzburg Festival" Few musicians have engaged with Beethoven's music as intensively and over such a long period as legendary Austrian maestro Rudolf Buchbinder. He has performed the 32 piano sonatas 60 times in cycles...