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Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain

Keith Jarrett's account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's W?rttemberg Sonatas is a revelation. "I'd heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was room for a piano version," says Jarrett today. This outstanding recording, made in 1994 and previously unreleased, finds the pianist...

The Danish String Quartet's GRAMMY-nominated Prism project, linking Bach fugues, Beethoven quartets and works by later masters, receives its fourth installment. The penultimate volume of the series combines Bach's Fugue in G minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel...

SOLO is the second part of a yearlong project celebrating the 20th anniversary of Yiruma's music career. Opposite to the larger orchestral and string arrangements of the first release, The Rewritten Memories, SOLO (as shown on the title) contains simple solo piano arrangements that...

Sir Andras Schiff's remarkable recording finds the great pianist reassessing interpretive approaches to Brahms in the inspired company of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Their collaboration in a series of concerts was widely acclaimed and led to them recapturing the experience at...

Debussy: The Piano Works

Carlos Simon - "Together" / Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon demonstrates his versatility as he composes, improvises, conducts, curates and performs on this intimate studio album. "Being a composer can be a very lonely profession, so I set out bring my closest friends and collaborators...

Best of Essential Carols from King's

Medieval Ensemble of London – The Complete L'Oiseau-Lyre Recordings (14CD)

Dreamweaver

Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56

Wolfgang Sawallisch Collection (43CD)

Christmas from Norway

The first set comprises Sutherland's complete Recitals and Oratorio recordings for Decca, ranging from the 1959 operatic recital recorded in Paris, with Nello Santi (has Verdi's "Santo di patria" ever rung out with greater thrill?), the truly legendary "Art of the Prima Donna" (an...

The Philharmonic Brass / Overture! / What happens when the illustrious brass sections of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic come together? The answer is The Philharmonic Brass. This debut album is conducted by Tugan Sokhiev and includes virtuoso arrangements of some of the best-known...

Los Romeros - "The Mercury Masters" / The Mercury Masters features the complete Mercury recordings of the "Royal Family of the Guitar" - Los Romeros - including their first recordings, superbly remastered by Thomas Fine. The extensive booklet includes original liner notes by such...

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason/Chineke! Orchestra - "Florence Price"In the year of Florence Price's 70th anniversary, the Chineke! Orchestra and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason celebrate the composer's legacy with two of her landmark award-winning pieces which led to her major breakthroughs as a composer.

Schumann & Brahms

Renee Fleming celebrates three decades at the Metropolitan Opera. This first-ever, specially remastered collection compiles highlights she has chosen of her "most magical experiences," captured live on stage in this pinnacle of opera houses featuring duets with Cecilia Bartoli, Susan Graham, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Samuel...

Renee Fleming explores how music's relationship with nature can be relevant for the age of humans. Looking back to the Romantic era and looking forward with new commissions from Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and Kevin Puts. "The music on the album begins in a...

Ernest Ansermet - The Mono Years (26CD)

Acclaimed guitarist MILOS presents a stunning new album of two world premiere guitar concertos - both written for him by legendary Canadian film composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) and multi-disciplinary British US-based composer Joby Talbot. MILOS worked closely with both composers to...

525 Years Anniversary (21CD)

Wiener Philharmoniker - "Deluxe Edition Vol. 2" / This luxurious hardback boxset provides a fascinating cross-section of the 170-year history of one of the world's greatest orchestras: the Wiener Philharmoniker. A lavishly illustrated 100-page hardcover coffee table book houses 20 CDs of recordings with...

Notre-Dame - Les plus grands airs de la musique sacr?e

BACH,J.S.:ST. MATTHEW(2CD)

Art of the Mandolin is Avi Avital's first recording exclusively comprising pieces originally written for the mandolin. Including, Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Mandolins in G Major, Beethoven's seldom-performed Adagio in E-flat Major and contemporary pieces by composers Paul Ben-Haim, David Bruce, Giovanni Sollima, as...

After winning the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 and releasing lauded albums of works by Debussy and Mozart, the "unequivocally brilliant" (The Telegraph) pianist SeongJin Cho now explores Schubert, Liszt, and Berg. The new album features Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and Liszt's Piano...

Celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder releases his first album on DG, a new series of works based on Beethoven's monumental Diabelli Variations, in advance of the composer's 250th anniversary in December 2020. Buchbinder, who recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations early in his...