Classical - CD

Grammy-winning conductor Andris Nelsons takes on the full cycle of Beethoven's eternal symphonies, leading the Vienna Philharmonic in a series of new recordings all made at the Vienna Musikverein. The cycle will be released in a deluxe box set on five CDs, featuring a...

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Kanneh-Mason, Sheku

Just in time for the holidays, this release brings together an irresistible mix of Christmas music - both familiar and new - all played by the world-famous Berlin Philharmonic with conductors Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, and the especially festive Brass Ensemble...

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Bach is the sixth Deutsche Grammophon album of Dutch pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen. Recorded with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, they perform two concertos for two pianos, BWV 1060 and 1061, as well as five Choral Preludes for four hands and one for two pianos.

25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and British vocal group The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember me, my dear, recorded during the group's final tour in 2014. The program is emblematic of the range of...

Features the world premiere recordings of the four concertos. Originally released in 2008. "Over The Stone", a double harp concerto; "La Folia" for marimba; "Quirk", a concertante for flutes, keyboards, percussion and "Sarikiz", a violin concerto. The album is rounded off with the re-recording...

Introduced to each other by mutual friend Dino Saluzzi in 2003, German cellist Anja Lechner and Argentinean guitarist Pablo M?rquez have since explored the most diverse repertoire and modes of expression in their concerts. For their first duo album, a conceptual context is provided...

Gjielo, Ola

Widely recognized as the most exciting string quartet of the present moment, these young players bring new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising, impressive forays into the world of Nordic folk music (explored on a...

Joined by trumpeter Arve Henriksen, Trio Mediaeval presents a unique program in which mediaeval and traditional music from Iceland and Norway and improvisation are integrated. Album highlights both Trio Medi‘val's vocal creativity and the dramatically orchestral scope of Henriksen's array of trumpets and electronics....

Vox Clamantis / Arvo Part

Ludovico Einaudi presents his new work, Elements. With a lush, deep sound, interwoven with a freshness that naturally blends piano with acoustic and electronic. In addition to his usual collaborators, it also features the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Robert Lippok, Mauro Refosco and Daniel Hope. The...

The Vienna Boys Choir, the oldest boys' choir in the world, is certainly one of Austria's most famous cultural exports. Having recorded and toured the world extensively for decades, they are recognized for the purity of their sound and the joy of their music...

Perahia, Murray

Cho, Seong-Jin

Radulovic, Nemanja

Shostakovich / Under Stalin's Shadow

Sokolov, Grigory

Avital, Avi

Deluxe hard-cover slipcasebrbrCDs fitted into thick card pages brbrInner cover sleeve with original recording schedulesbrbrSoft-cover 80-page LP-size book in colour with many photosbrbr80-page book includes a new essay by Karajan biographer Richard Osborne plus original liner notes, and opera libretti in German and EnglishbrbrAll...

El na presents a beautiful selection of spiritual music dedicated to the eternal search and longing for inner peace. Its perhaps one of her most personal albums ever which connects the listener with El nas Latvian rootsbrbrEl nas parents were involved with choral music,...

Young Chinese virtuoso Yuja Wang plays two of the most demanding of all piano concertos in one concert, joining an orchestra and conductor of similar age.brbrThe first recording with a soloist for the Simon Bol?var Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel captures the extraordinary energy levels...

The dynamic young French-Canadian conductor records the symphony that has played a central role in his remarkable career.brbrYannick Nezet-Seguin first heard it live in Montreal at the age of eight. It was the work he chose for his debut with both the Orchestre Meetropolitain...

The Yuja Wang album that everyone has been waiting for wows with musical miniatures that are short, sweet, and huge in impact. These encore pieces by Scriabin, Gluck, Rachmaninov, Chopin and others will enthrall Yuja Wang's fans with challenging technical demands and the bravura...

Another instalment in Uchida s much-admired and Grammy-Award-winning Mozart piano concerto series with the Cleveland Orchestra.brbrThis new live recording combines the B flat major, No 18, K456 and the F major, No 19, K459, both part of the great series of piano concertos Mozart...

Beethoven was a composer with whose music Arrau was particularly associated, and he could trace his illustrious musical ancestry back via his teacher Martin Krause, himself a pupil of Liszt, and Czerny to Beethoven himself. brArrau recorded the Diabelli Variations for American Decca in...

The nineteenth-century American poet, Freeman E. Miller, offers us a beautiful interpretation of Eventide. A time for reflection, for peace and for comfort; VOCES8 explores this depiction with an album of musical repose.Plainchant has, for centuries, adorned the cloisters of churches and cathedrals. The...

The richness and command of the singing puts this among the very finest of Sutherland s later recordings. Bonynges conducting is finely sprung, the style direct, the speeds often spacious in lyrical music, generally undistracting. The digital recording is outstandingly vivid and beautifully balanced....

The haunting representation of watery moonlight known as Clair de lune regularly crops up in "classical greatest hits" lists, has been used to advertise everything from chocolate to shampoo, and has even appeared in the The Twilight Saga (CD 1 [1]; the orchestrated version...