Classical - CD

SLEEP CIRCLE is released as part of the 10th anniversary of Max Richter's SLEEP. A 90-minute concert suite edition of the original 8-hour piece, SLEEP CIRCLE reflects the typical REM cycle, with ever-shifting variations inviting transformation, clarity and rest. 2 CD Digipak, 6-panel, 24-page...

Georgijs Osokins, the first Baltic (Latvian) pianist to establish himself at the highest level on the international music scene, brings a deeply personal and eloquent perspective to the stage. He takes on an extraordinary project: an ultimate 21-track collection of Arvo P?rt's music for...

Experience the enchanting sounds of 'Orfeo Son Io' featuring Rolando Villazon, L'Arpeggiata, and Christina Pluhar. This classical masterpiece, released by Deutsche Grammophon, showcases a unique blend of operatic vocals and instrumental artistry. Perfect for both classical enthusiasts and new listeners alike.

Grammy-winning French composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Victor le Masne presents his personal take on Ravel. A major figure on the French contemporary music scene, le Masne reached a global audience of billions as the Composer and Musical Director of the Paris 2024 Olympic &...

Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital leads a new ensemble that challenges the boundaries between classical and folk music. Each project of the Between Worlds ensemble is dedicated to a different geographical region - the Iberian Peninsula, the south of Italy and the Black Sea -...

Star pianist Daniil Trifonov burst on to the international scene winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. With this album, Trifonov returns to the music of Tchaikovsky in a beautiful selection of solo works evoking youth and family. The selected pieces include the rarely...

Inspired by the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth, Asal curates a personal program that combines the French composer's music with his own improvisatory pieces. SIENA TAPES presents Ravel's Jeux d'eau, Prelude in A minor, Menuet sur le nom de Haydn and A la mani?re...

Yu-Peng Chen is the newest signing of the renowned classical label Deutsche Grammophon. Widely known for his hugely popular scores for the film and gaming worlds, in particular his richly melodic and stylistically multifaceted soundtracks for the open-world role-playing game Genshin Impact, Yu-Peng Chen...

A beautifully curated album of Mozart arias, duets and songs, programmed in order of moods, roles and themes in the world of opera and song. Featuring the Mozarteum orchestra of Mozart's hometown Salzburg with its chief conductor Roberto Gonz?lez-Monjas, Avi Avital in a mesmerizing...

The ultimate offering for the 2025 Ravel Anniversary Year: Seong-Jin Cho is joined by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons to bring you, Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works and Concertos, available on this deluxe, hardcover book 3 CD boxset. Limited Edition.

GRAMMY Award-winner for Best Opera Recording, the late Kaija Saariaho's much-admired second opera, Adriana Mater, was recorded at Davies Symphony Hall in June 2023, just days after its composer's untimely passing. In its review, the New York Times wrote, "Saariaho's delicately consoling music stares...

Canadian star pianist Jan Lisiecki showcases the kaleidoscopic world of the prelude. Taking the notion of the prelude as meaning something "that comes before," Lisiecki asks: "Can a recording project be composed entirely of such introductions, then, one leading directly into the next, and...

Rudolf Serkin - "The Lost Tapes - Beethoven: Piano Sonat" / In the first of a fascinating new series - The Lost Tapes - the Strategic Repertoire Team (formally known as the Heritage Team, formally known as the Catalogue Team) is releasing Rudolf Serkin's...

The American Project - Yuja Wang is the brilliant soloist in a piano concerto by a longtime friend of hers: Teddy Abrams. The music director of the Louisville Orchestra, which he conducts here, describes his virtuosic piece as "an opportunity for the piano to...

Destination Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Transcriptions (CDs + Blu-ray Audio Set)

One of today's leading pianists sheds new light on an unjustly overlooked composer: for Krystian Zimerman, Karol Szymanowski's piano music deserves to stand alongside that of their compatriot Chopin. For this album Zimerman has selected repertoire that for him shows the essence of Szymanowski,...

After his critically-acclaimed, award-winning "lieder albums" with pianists Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho, baritone Matthias Goerne concludes his DG lieder trilogy with DG exclusive artist Daniil Trifonov. With this album, he explores the art song from a metaphysical perspective. In these visionary meditations by...

Hilary Hahn/Andr?s Orozco-Estrada/Frankfurt Radio Symphony - "Eclipse" - Hilary Hahn's latest album, Eclipse, celebrates the power of authenticity. Recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and it's Music Director (2014-2021), Andr?s Orozco-Estrada, it sees the triple Grammy-winning violinist deliver interpretations of three works charged with...

Harmony in Friendship" - 50 Years of Chamber Music & Lieder Recordings with Friends & Family! Insights, perfectionism, dedication - all these qualities are key to Ashkenazy's music making, as soloist and collaborator, in both chamber music and as conductor. Ashkenazy was principal conductor,...

CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTOS

Following his breakout moment as the first black musician to win BBC's Young Musician of the Year Award in 2016 and a "standout" (NPR) performance at TRH the Duke & Duchess of Sussex's wedding, 20-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason releases a new album featuring Elgar's Cello...

An exclusive Decca artist since 2002, Nelson Freire's new record, Encores, will be released on his birthday, October 18, 2019, and features 30 tracks of Freire's most beloved pieces ranging from Purcell to Rachmaninov, and includes such treasures as the Sgambati Melodie de Gluck,...

Matthias Goerne has recorded a selection of Schubert's songs not in their original versions with piano but in orchestral arrangements by Alexander Schmalcz, Goerne's accompanist of many years' standing. Goerne says about Alexander Schmalcz's arrangements: "His creativity in adapting these songs for the orchestra...

Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies offers fresh insights into the music of a radical thinker, creator of what Leonard Bernstein called "his own private musical revolution." Dudamel's special affinity for the composer's symphonies & the performance of the Los Angeles Philharmonic earned rave reviews during...

Continuing the award-winning series of recordings from OSM and Kent Nagano on Decca and released in time for Nagano's final, triumphant season with the Montreal Symphony, The John Adams Album contains the composer's key orchestral works, including Common Tones in Simple Time and Harmonielehre,...

Baroque Journey

Following his recording journeys into the traditions of Eastern Europe (Journey East), Russia (Tchaikovsky), and the Baroque (Bach), violinist Radulovic now turns to the East with his new album, Ba‹ka, the Serbian word for "fairytale." The album features Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, newly arranged by Serbian...

Already recognized around the world for his poetic and mature playing, Jan Lisiecki has received several awards, including the 2010 Révélations Radio-Canada Musique and the 2011 Jeune Soliste des Radios Francophones. He has recently signed an exclusive recording agreement with Deutsche Grammophon and his...

Benedetti, Nicola

Bocelli, Andrea

DANIEL BARENBOIM - CHOPIN: NOCTURNES - CD

I have heard virtually all the recordings in the catalogue and feel pretty confident in saying that the new one under Sir Neville Marriner is among the noblest and most powerful of them all. The Chorus sing the beginning almost as if it were...

On the heels of her impressive Deutsche Grammophon debut recital album, pianist Yuja Wang's return recording for the label - Transformation - categorically demonstrates that she is a young master of the Steinway. Her new album excites with a demanding recital that includes some...

Lang Lang joins forces with Valery Gergiev and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater for two of Rachmaninov's masterpieces, the Second Piano Concerto and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

BAGATELLEN UND SEREN

Dutoit, Charles L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) excelle dans les classiques français de la première moitié du siècle depuis que Charles Dutoit en a pris la direction. Ce répertoire fait sa renommée à travers le monde. L’enregistrement qui a le plus contribué au rayonnement...