Music - CD

Two CDs + Blu-Ray. Filmed and recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre and presented on CD/Blu-ray in Dolby Atmos, this performance from Good Friday 2021 marked Sir John Eliot Gardiner's return to the stage. He says: "I recorded the piece for the first time for...

The Ellington Suites is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington which collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971 and 1972. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. Interesting fact: Ellington wrote the Queens...

A new collection of songs, personally selected by the world's biggest streaming "classical artist" - Ludovico Einaudi, from across more than 25 years of music making. This remastered double album explores music from across Einaudi's catalogue, unearthing hidden gems from across 9 albums. Includes...

Seven Days Walking explores the idea of the same walk done over seven days, but each day the experience is different due to many factors - the weather, the season, the walker's mood, the appearance of different wildlife, a new observation within the landscape,...

Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In a Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time.

The Danish String Quartet's Grammy-nominated Prism project links Bach fugues, late Beethoven quartets and works by modern masters. In volume two of the series, Bach's Bb minor, Beethoven's Op. 130 is joined with Schnittke's Quartet No.3 (1983). As the quartet explains, "A beam of...

Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. CHANT: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL, is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; it's power is timeless and universal....

A concert in Baden-Baden's Festspielhaus ended to euphoric applause, with no one knowing who was at whose feet. The conductor, the orchestra, the audience, or all together the composer, Brahms? The reason for the enthusiasm was his Second Symphony, "Lichtentaler," because he had completed...

Together with the Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly explores the iconic film scores of Nino Rota in a new collection, The Fellini Album, on Decca Classics. Released to mark 40 years since Rota’s death in April 1979, the album contains music from classic Federico...

Verdi Choruses

Renaud Capu‡on and Martha Argerich came together in April 2022 for a joint recital at the Easter Festival in Aix-en-Provence. Their extraordinary rapport comes across in this performance of 3 of the repertoire's finest violin sonatas, captured live in a concert they dedicated to...

Canadian Brass

Award winning Canadian pianist David Braid is joined by the legendary brass group Canadian Brass in a full album of original music written by David Braid. Inspired and evocative, together they create new sounds that are intimate, spontaneous and warm. The album has affinities,...

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Canadian Brass

Canadian Brass

Rudolf Buchbinder is one of the legendary performers of our time. The authority of a career spanning more than 60 years is uniquely combined with esprit and spontaneity in his piano playing. Tradition and innovation, faithfulness and freedom, authenticity, and open-mindedness merge in his...

Rudolf Buchbinder - "Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Live From Salzburg Festival" Few musicians have engaged with Beethoven's music as intensively and over such a long period as legendary Austrian maestro Rudolf Buchbinder. He has performed the 32 piano sonatas 60 times in cycles...

El ?ltimo aliento

This self-produced, composed and arranged release is the sophomore effort from guitarist extraordinaire Armik. Influenced by the sounds of the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and South America, with echoes of Spain and Greece, Armik's flamenco style is dominant throughout the percussion and synthesizer backdrops. Amazingly,...

Filled with romance and beauty, PASSIONE is a lush collection of Mediterranean love songs featuring duets with global pop stars Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado, and the late Edith Piaf. The album reunites Bocelli with sixteen time Grammy Award winning producer David Foster, who produced...

Internationally renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli releases breathtaking new album, Believe, celebrating the power of music to soothe the soul. It follows his record-breaking `Music for Hope' performance at Easter from Milan's historic Duomo cathedral. Features classic favorites, a previously unreleased track from late...

Andrea Bocelli/Matteo Bocelli/Virginia Bocelli - "A Family Christmas" / Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, and Virginia Bocelli release the Deluxe Edition of their beautiful, intimate and warm holiday album, A Family Christmas. Featuring bonus tracks like "Let It Snow" and "Silver Bells," the Bocelli family...

Rafal Blechacz has been deeply associated with the music of Fryderyk Chopin across his whole career. His devotion to the music of his great compatriot began long before 2005 when he won the Warsaw Chopin Competition. "I learnt both sonatas while still in my...

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MATTHIAS AND MAXIME

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French tenor Benjamin Bernheim explores the work of Italian opera composers in France. Familiar and lesser-known Donizetti and Verdi extracts, all in French, are paired with enthralling earlier music by Spontini and Cherubini, as well as two beloved Puccini arias and one from Mascagni's...

BEETHOVEN- THE SYMPHONIES

COMPLETE TONY BENNET

Casta Diva

Shostakovich was the greatest composer of the Soviet era and throughout his life walked a tightrope between satisfying the authorities and voicing the hopes and fears of the people. His two exuberant piano concertos are among his most accessible works and are coupled here...

Essential Borodin: Polovtsian Dances; Symphonies 1-3; String Quartet No. 2, Prince Igor - Overture, In The Steppes of Central Asia

Decca Classics announces the second official joint recording from Seiji Ozawa and Martha Argerich, presenting Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.2 in his 250th anniversary year, and Ozawa's first-ever recording of Grieg's Holberg Suite Martha Argerich continues to be one of the most extraordinary pianists performing...

Aigul Akhmetshina is the fiery young mezzo taking the opera world by storm. Her story is one of determination and perseverance against the odds, starting in a rural village in the mountains of Bashkortostan. She left home aged 14 to pursue her singing career....

Marriner conducts Beethoven (10CD)