Classical - CD

The Orchestre symphonique de Montreal and it's Music Director Rafael Payare celebrate Arnold Schoenberg's 150th birthday with a recording of two of his late-Romantic masterworks: Verklarte Nacht and Pelleas und Melisande. Both pieces are based on stories evolving around love, jealousy, acceptance and forgiveness,...

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and it's Music Director Rafael Payare make their Pentatone debut with Mahler's 5th Symphony. The album is also the first recording under Payare's tenure, and the beginning of a longer recording relationship with the label. For Payare, the Fifth...

Never has Bach seemed less dry and more full of fantasy," stated The Telegraph. Mahan Esfahani's mammoth project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach reaches it's zenith with The Complete Keyboard Concertos. At every stage in the series, Esfahani has sought to...

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At once campy and crushing, this 1973 LP gave the world a bracing early taste of the punk assault to follow a few years later. The Dolls' epochal debut includes Personality Crisis; Trash; Looking for a Kiss; Lonely Planet Boy, and more!

Three CD collection. This release coincides with release of Pavarotti: Genius is Forever, the documentary directed by Ron Howard. This set is for fans who want a deeper dive at a great price. Greatest Hits features six never before released duets: James Brown ('It's...

L'etoile is an album by A. E. Chabrier, released in 2016. The album is a classical 2-CD.

Sonatinas/Carmen-Fantasy/Sonatina Segunda... is an album by F. Busoni, released in 2016. The album is a classical CD.

Two CD set. In November 2018, The Doobie Brothers returned to the Beacon Theatre for the first time in 25 years to perform two of their landmark albums, Toulouse Street and The Captain And Me. This historic performance at the Beacon offered an opportunity...

This is as fine a recorded account... as I've heard for some time, both in terms of Lahav Shani's conception of the music and it's realisation on the orchestra. It's a performance that grows movement by movement, stable of pulse, yet flexible and free-flowing...

Piotr Anderszewski's new album is juxtaposing solo piano works by three composers who asserted and shaped the musical identity of their Central European countries in the earlier 20th century: Janáček in Moravia, Szymanowski in Poland, and Bartók in Hungary. "The works on this album...

The latest release from V?kingur Olafsson, this 2CD album combines the original Bach album, a collection of both well-known and rarely performed pieces by the famous Baroque composer, including transcriptions by Busconi, Rachmaninov, Siloti, and V?kingur himself; and Bach Reworks, an album of new...

Tab is an album by Monster Magnet, released in 2017. Tab includes a.o. the following tracks: "Tab", "25", "Longhair", "Lord 13" and more. The album is a Reissue Stoner Metal / Rock CD.

William Bolcom's music has theatrical flair and virtuosity. Richard Stoltzman performing his clarinet concerto.

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Conductor John Nelson and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg record Berlioz's orchestral song cycle on a libretto by Théophile Gautier, Les Nuits d'Été, sung by (bari)tenor Michael Spyres. This is the first ever recording of the original 1856 version by one single voice.

Remastered from original analog tapes gatefold sleeve with liner notes, lyrics, and rare photos

These recordings exemplify Karajan's mastery of the expansive forms and forces of late Romanticism. Two Bruckner symphonies recorded in 1970 and 1971 show just how much the orchestra's musical signature had changed since the recordings of the 1950s. The pitch had historically always been...

Herbert von Karajan, the emblematic conductor of the post-war years, did not record Mozart's final six symphonies as a group until September 1970 - in EMI sessions presided over by French producer Michel Glotz, a close friend and colleague. There are some subtle inflections...

Dvořák's much-loved Symphony No. 9 'From the New World', with it's captivating blend of Slavonic and American spirit, now joins the sequence of symphonies recorded for Warner Classics by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and it's Chief Conductor Lahav Shani. Paired with the symphony is...

Nonesuch Records releases The Wild Heart, the label debut from composer Dylan Mattingly, The Wild Heart, performed by Contemporaneous with conductor David Bloom and vocal soloist Iarla Ó Lionáird. The vinyl edition features two movements - 'Ulysses Dances' and 'Last Dance' - from the...

Inspired by the idea of 'music of the spheres' and the interaction between space and men, the album reflects Sumino's multi-faceted artistry and melts old and new music into one unique listening experience.The album includes an intriguing variety of music recorded on concert grant...

100 Best Guitar Classics is a compilation of classical tracks released as 6-CD on 4 Aug 2016.

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With Roots, his first Warner Classics album, violinist Nemanja Radulovic draws on a diversity of cultures in a musical tour of the world. Roots has it's roots in the pandemic. "Throughout this period I had the time to think profoundly about music... When the...

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CD reissue. Voyage 34: The Complete Trip is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. The individual tracks for the album were recorded in 1992 and 1993, while the album itself was compiled and released in 2000, and then reissued again...

With Magische Töne, Jonas Kaufmann returns to the world of operetta and late Romantic opera, presenting a collection of some of the genre's most beautiful and beloved melodies. Recorded in Budapest with the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra under the baton of Dirk Kaftan, the...

Love and charm are among the many qualities which distinguish this richly enjoyable set of the Tchaikovsky Symphonies," wrote Gramophone of the cycle that forms the heart of this collection. Mstislav Rostropovich, like Tchaikovsky, represents the very soul of Russian music. These 1976-77 recordings...

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The French composer and organist Thierry Escaich composed his Te Deum pour Notre-Dame for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; a hymn to the Cathedral's resurrection, it is a large-scale work for children's choir, two mixed choirs and orchestra. One hundred and eighty...

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Andrew Wan, Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, internationally acclaimed pianist and silver medalist at the Chopin Competition, unite their artistic chemistry in a pinnacle of the Romantic repertoire. Through Brahms' three violin sonatas, they unfold a sweeping expressive arc:...

Schubert composed his Sonata No. 4 in A minor (D. 537), a work of unabashed Romanticism, in 1817. Whilst the outer movements are highly dramatic in character, the central slow movement features a long and enchanting melody of an almost fragile delicacy. He returned...

The good folks at England's Koko Mojo Records have assembled the kind of compilation that is almost too delicious for words. Only killer no filler compilation by Little Victor, remastering by Black Shack Recordings, Calw, Germany. The Koko-Mojo original series is BACK!

Louis Lortie's programme for this eighth and final volume of Chopin spans the composer's entire career, from the teenage Rondo, Op. 1 through to his final published piece, the Cello Sonata, Op. 65. Inspired by a visit to the estate of Prince Antoni Radziwill...

Any setting with Neil is just fine with us, but acoustic just might be the best! This hit album features him with Nicolette Larson and Nils Lofgren on Mr. Soul; the Needle and the Damage Done; Harvest Moon; Helpless; Like a Hurricane and a...

Joe Hisaishi - "Joe Hisaishi Conducts The End Of The World; Reich: The Desert Music". Joe Hisaishi's new album blends cinematic sound worlds with the spellbinding power of a live performance experience. Recorded in 2024 at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Hisaishi's album features the...

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A celebration of Bohemian spirit and rhythmic brilliance, Antonin Dvorak's Slavonic Dances come to life in a vibrant new recording by the Czech Philharmonic, led by the masterful Sir Simon Rattle. These vivid orchestral gems, full of rhythmic vitality, folkloric color, and lyrical charm,...

Composed at the age of 19, Rachmaninov's earliest published cycle of piano pieces, the Morceaux de Fantaisie, contains the Prélude in C-sharp minor, destined to become his signature work, and the Mélodie in E major, much loved by Tchaikovsky. The expressive Morceaux de Salon...

Castelnuovo-Tedesco's chamber works were composed early and late in his career. He considered the Piano Quintet No. 1 in F major from 1932 to be the best of all his chamber works from that period. It exudes Romantic candour and contrapuntal richness, full of...