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RACHMANINOV 1. Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23 No. 5 2. ?tudes-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 1 in C Minor 3. ?tudes-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 3 in C Minor 4. Prelude in B Minor, Op. 32, No. 10 SCRIABIN 5. Piano Sonata No. 10, Op....

2023 release. Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre releases a new album with world-renowned VOCES8 - his 'dream vocal group' - for the first time. With Eric conducting throughout, it includes a world premiere recording of his new piece, All Seems Beautiful to Me, as well...

Voces 8

World-leading choral ensemble Voces8 blazes a trail with brand new repertoire for voices. With their transportive and meditative new album, the group transcends genre and embraces renowned composers of alternative, film, and contemporary classical music styles. The album features mesmerizing instrumental and electronic tracks...

Voces8, the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble, is pleased to announce the release of their new album, 'A Choral Christmas' out via Decca Classics and showcasing a joyful, cinematic soundscape-packed hamper of choral and orchestral treats.

CLASSICAL NAPTIME FOR TOTS offers relaxing and peaceful classical music, hand-selected by parents who just happen to be top recording producers! The gentle ebb and flow of the musical program soothes little ones to sleep and then provides colorful stimulation for their minds while...

Visages baroques

Perhaps the last major figure in Italy s 300-year old opera tradition, Puccini always claimed that his work could be sung in any language and still be clearly understood. The powerful narrative flow of his operas is matched by an unerring sense of melody...

Includes romantic ballads by the stars of the Savoy and Muse catalogs! Featuring tracks by: Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, Sadao Watanbe, Pat Martino, Toots Thieleman's, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis among others.

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Mahler Adagio / Various

Fragments is a project that moves between planes. Between classical and electronic music, between streaming-at-home and art-installation, between old and new. Each year, Fragments will be inspired by the works of one composer. The result will be a series of albums, where a selection...

Two CD collection in celebration of the much-anticipated coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla. 'Crown and Glory' houses over two and a half hours of British orchestral, instrumental, and choral music from across four centuries. Music enjoyed at coronations, jubilees...

The Coronation Of Their Majesties King Charles III And Queen Camilla [The Official Album] [2 CD] - When Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023 the service and pre-service music will be exclusively recorded...

The Coronation Of Their Majesties King Charles III And Queen Camilla (The Official Album / Deluxe / 4CD)

When not any most relaxing piano music will do, rely on only the best. Lower your blood pressure or snooze to the lightest touch by the works of composers such as Bach, Beethoven and DeBussy.

The Baroque era in music lasted from around 1650 to 1750, and produced a constant stream of beautifully crafted music. Bach, Handel and Vivaldi were the musical giants of this Golden Age alongside Purcell, Albinoni, Corelli and Pachelbel, all of whom are represented in...

Vangelis

Vangelis' album, Juno to Jupiter, was inspired by NASA's ground-breaking mission by the Juno space probe and its ongoing exploration of Jupiter. It's a multi-dimensional musical journey featuring the voice of opera superstar Angela Gheorghiu. It includes sounds from the launch event, the probe,...

Kathryn Tremills (piano):Trio D’Argento and Soloists

The first recording of opera arias from the star tenor, Freddie De Tommaso, following his chart-topping debut album. Love and Death - Amore e Morte - celebrates the greatest tenor hits by Puccini and Bizet including Nessun dorma, E lucevan le stelle and the...

One of the most listened-to and performed hybrid artists straddling contemporary classical and media worlds, Christopher Tin is a 2X Grammy-winning composer (concert music, film, video game scores). To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight and humankind's quest to...

Hellbound Train is a retrospective from Steve Tibbetts with music selected by the guitarist from his 40 years of recordings for ECM, neatly divided into electric and acoustic chapters. With it's liquid melodies, textures, hypnotic patterns, and pulsations subtly influenced by music of many...

30 years ago, on the starry evening of 7 July 1990, on the eve of the Italia '90 FIFA World Cup, an "impossible dream" came true. Against the majestic backdrop of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, superstar tenors Jose Carreras, Pl cido Domingo...

A journey in three chapters to discover Chopin's life through the sound of the cello. The most ambitious project of the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas.

A journey in three chapters to discover Chopin's life through the sound of the cello. The most ambitious project of the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas.

There was a flurry of firsts on the opening night of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's 2024/25 season. Not only was this Daniel Harding's debut appearance in his new role as the orchestra's Musical Director, but he and the Santa Cecilia forces were...

BRYN TERFEL / SEA SONGS - Bryn Terfel's new album 'Sea Songs' presents a rich and diverse repertory of traditional music with sea shanties, spirited sailor songs and maritime folk tunes in brand new arrangements. Featuring guest stars Sting, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Fisherman's Friends...

Tan Dun - "Buddha Passion" / Buddha Passion is the latest album by world-renowned artist Tan Dun, whose work has made an indelible mark on the world music scene. He has won some of today's most prestigious awards, including a Grammy Award, Academy Award,...

Over a thirteen-year period, G?bor Tak?cs-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra embarked on a spiritual journey through the nine symphonies of Beethoven. The resultant cycle of recordings captures the ensemble's liberated and transformative account of these masterworks, approaching each opus with a sense...

Stupendous brilliance, breathless virtuosity. Anne-Sophie Mutter's Virtuosi thrilled at the Vienna Musikverein." (Die Presse) In June 2023, star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gave an impressive concert in Vienna with her Virtuosi ensemble. Based on this, a varied album has now been created, with music by...

Praised by The Washington Post for playing with "an easy warmth, drawing the orchestra after him like a halo around a candle flame," cellist Kian Soltani follows his DG debut album, Home, with a Dvor k album centered on the famous cello concerto. Featuring...

Three years after his last recording, Grigory Sokolov returns with a double album of live recordings from his triumphant European 2019-20 tour. Focusing on the early (Piano Sonata No. 3) and late Beethoven sonatas (Piano Sonatas Nos. 27 & 32) as well as Brahms's...

Snowblink

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Enigma Variations (Decca - The Collection / New Cover Art 2023)

Silverstrov, Valentin

Nadine Sierra announces a new album of her joint live performance with Pretty Yende from Paris in 2023. The acclaimed singers showcase how the fusion of tradition and contemporary flair succeeds through their friendship and outstanding vocal abilities. The program includes familiar and timeless...

MESSIAH

Serkin, Rudolf

John Scofield's first guitar solo recording gives a resume of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Between elegant and personal readings of...

The Brahms project with the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in 2007 was a thrilling undertaking - a thorough reappraisal of Brahms's sound world, both in terms of period instruments and a study of the surviving evidence of performance practice. So why then a second...