Classical

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...

Vinyl LP pressing. In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Part's, Tabula rasa, the first album on the label's New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant...

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...

DVORAK:CELLO CONCERTO(2LP)

MOZART:PIANO CON NO 23(2LP

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...

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INNER CLASSICS

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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

pGiven Robert Shaw’s deep understanding not only of orchestral conducting but also of the use of a chorus, it’s not surprising that Telarc would have him lead what has become one of the most widely performed works for chorus and orchestra in the twentieth...

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...

This album is a sonic exploration of the raw, unfiltered emotions that bind us. Inspired by Mari's feelings and emotions of motherhood, it delves into the universal language of connection, revealing its power to transform and transcend circumstance.

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...

For 60 years, Sviatoslav Richter's discography, which were made by Deutsche Grammophon at the Tours and Lucerne Festivals in 1965, have slumbered in the Yellow Label's archives. Carefully restored by Emil Berliner Studios, they are now being released for the first time. These tremendous...

Quartetto Gelato

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Hyperion's collaborations with Stephen Layton and Polyphony over the years have resulted in some of finest choral recordings available, and Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst & other choral works really is something else: described on BBC Radio 3 as "staggering" and by the Times as "a...

In June 2022, Maurizio and Daniele Pollini recorded a new studio album dedicated to three essential aspects of Schubert's piano music: the sonatas, the cycles of short pieces and the piano music for four hands. This was a project of the heart for father...

MIKHAIL PLETNEV / CHOPIN & SCRIABIN: PRELUDES - The legendary pianist, Mikhail Pletnev, proudly presents his first Deutsche Grammophon recording in decades: Chopin & Scriabin: Preludes. The renditions captured reflect a master's perspective on two masterpieces of the piano repertoire. In a historic milestone...

Duke Pearson's opening title track of superb album, The Phantom, sets a stage for one of Blue Note's underrecognized gems. The pianist/composer/arranger gathered a superb cast: Bobby Hutcherson, Jerry Dodgion (flute), Sam Brown/Al Gafa (guitars), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Mickey Roker/Victor Pantojo/Potato Valdes (drums). With...

Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Luciano Pavarotti, the world's favourite tenor and classical music's most popular recording artist ever, continually appears at the top of the classical and pop charts. Pavarotti's impact on the world of music is unrivalled by any other classical...

P?rt, Arvo

The album "I Am Hera" is the debut album from recently signed Deutsche Grammophon artist Hera Hyesang Park. Describing herself as a nomad and free spirit, Park is determined to follow her own path as she travels the world, challenging cultural, racial and gender...

Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic and Music Director of Orchestre de Paris Klaus M„kel„ announces his debut album Sibelius. Having played the music of Jean Sibelius for over 100 years, the Oslo Philharmonic performs all Sibelius symphonies plus fragments of the unfinished 8th...

Klaus M?kel? conducts France's premier orchestra in two classic showpieces: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Ravel's La valse. "M?kel? is a star, no doubt, and the proof of it is that he makes his players look and sound like stars, too," wrote The Guardian about...

Debussy - Rameau

The Complete Recordings on American Decca (9CD)

In September 2019, The World Lost One Of The Most Prolific Musical Talents Of All Time, The Majestic And Unmistakably Radiant American Soprano, Jessye Norman. Legions Of Fans, Including Celebrities, Civil Rights And Arts World Leaders All Shared With The World The Impact She...

Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Vinyl)

Yannick Nezet-Seguin's new Mahler recording marks a return to the core symphonic repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mahler's Eighth Symphony was billed as the "Symphony of a Thousand," exploring themes of redemption through the power of love. The "sublime, transcendent" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) performances...

Double vinyl LP pressing.

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble, and Hyperion is celebrating the occasion with a program of Debussy's Sonatas & Prelude ? l'apr?s-midi d'un faune. The original album was #1 on the UK Specialist Charts earlier this year, with the Times writing:...

Anne‐Sophie Mutter / Daniil Trifonov