Symphonies,CLASSICAL

P?rt, Arvo

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...

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.

Daniel Barenboim / Staatskapelle Berlin

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...

One of the most beloved and recognizable classical compositions, The Nutcracker ballet by Tchaikovsky remains a perennial favorite. In this highly regarded, 1986 recording, esteemed conductor Sir Charles Mackerras leads the London Symphony Orchestra through the dramatic, complete score, including such highlights as the...

Czech Philharmonic / Jiri Belohlavek

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...

Over a period of four years, painter Thilo Heinzmann and the late, Golden Globe-winning composer J?hann J?hannsson engaged in a series of in-depth conversations about art, politics and their own lives. Working to, or rather with, a painting by Heinzmann, J?hannsson composed a new...

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...

II (DLX)

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

Ludovico Einaudi presents his new work, Elements. With a lush, deep sound, interwoven with a freshness that naturally blends piano with acoustic and electronic. In addition to his usual collaborators, it also features the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Robert Lippok, Mauro Refosco and Daniel Hope. The...

Island Songs is the innovative brainchild of composer Olafur Arnalds and director Baldvin Z, who have teamed up for a fascinating, real-time, audio-visual portrait of their home country of Iceland. Over 7 weeks in June and July of this year, Arnalds travelled around Iceland...

Arnalds, Olafur

CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTOS

2017 album from Melbourne jazz vocalist, pianist & composer, produced by Brian Bacchus, who has worked with Norah Jones, Lizz Wright & Gregory Porter.

A previously-unreleased live recording of Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in 1971 is out now on DG. Discovered in the archives of Austrian Radio – the “ORF,” Abbado Rediscovered features Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic shortly after Karajan invited him to conduct the...

Introduced to each other by mutual friend Dino Saluzzi in 2003, German cellist Anja Lechner and Argentinean guitarist Pablo M?rquez have since explored the most diverse repertoire and modes of expression in their concerts. For their first duo album, a conceptual context is provided...

A couple years after Maestro Daniel Barenboim's successful Complete Brahms Symphonies with the Staatskapelle Berlin, he presents a live recording of the four Schumann Symphonies with his orchestra from concerts at Berlin's world-famous Philharmonie and in the Staatsoper. This 2 CD/Blu-ray Audio set is...

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...

Shostakovich / Under Stalin's Shadow

Australian pianist/composer Sophie Hutchings has been hailed for her approach to the classical genre, with her playing described by The Guardian as having "an intimate, contemplative quality" and a "genuine sense of beauty." Scattered on the Wind is her debut album on Mercury KX,...

Various Artists

Debussy - Rameau

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....