Classical

Vinyl LP pressing. There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a remarkable recording...

Ludovico Einaudi - "Underwater" A manifesto for life and a statement for this time when the world around was quiet and silent. The album is a place that is not our everyday life. It's a space to float without boundaries, to freely reflect. The...

Ludovico Einaudi - "Underwater" - A manifesto for life and a statement for this time when the world around was quiet and silent. The album is a place that is not our everyday life. It's a space to float without boundaries, to freely reflect....

Double vinyl LP pressing. A fascinating solo from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist best known as leader of the bands Ronin and Mobile, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bartch's musical thinking. As the album title implies Entendre is about hearing as a...

BraniDisco 11.1. Allegro non troppo2.2. Adagio3.3. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo4.Prelude5.Jesu Maria, I * near to death6.Rouse thee, my fainting soul7.Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus8.I can no more9.Profiscere, anima ChristianaDisco 21.Introduction2.I went to sleep3.My work is done4.Low-born clouds of brute earth5.I see not those false...

Ballet Edition

Presenting two new additions to the 100 best series - the world's most respected classical label performances by great artists and orchestra's. The 100 best series sets new sales records, with international sales now in excess of 3 million across the 1st 5 titles.

Franco Zeffirelli?s production of La Boh?me is a perennial favorite at New York?s Metropolitan Opera and it retains its power in this 2008 performance. Its large-scale settings and especially an Act II set that looks as if half the 1890?s Paris Latin Quarter has...

After their multi-award-winning Virgin Classics debut with a CD of Debussy, Ravel and Faur?, a program of Brahms, and the pop-jazz collection `Fiction', the members of the ?b?ne Quartet turn to works that lie close to the very origins of stringquartet writing - Mozart's...

BRAND New CD on the Erato label

Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the great composer. As Richard Osborne says in the accompanying liner notes: 'no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to...

Premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2022 - with Joyce DiDonato, Ren?e Fleming and Kelli O'Hara as it's stars - Kevin Puts's The Hours was praised by The New York Times as "sincere and persuasive... fervent... and soaringly lyrical". The opera returns to...

TRACKLIST BLU-RAY + 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY - MYTHOLOGIES1 I. Premiers Mouvements2 II. Le Catch3 III. Thalestris4 IV. Les Gémeaux I5 V. Les es6 VI. L’Arrivée d’Alexandre7 VII. Treize Nuits8 VIII. Danae9 IX. Zeus10 X. L’Accouchement11 XI. Les Gorgones12 XII. Renaissances13 XIII. Le Minotaure14...

The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and it's Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now 'traditional' recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz's Les Nuits d'?t? and Ravel's Sh?h?razade. Complementing them both musically and...