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Renaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director,...
Hahn recorded all six sonatas in chronological order. “In playbacks, I was struck by how surprising my own playing sounded to me. The goosebumps told me I was headed in the right direction. These sonatas are truly hypnotic, and when...
CMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus of OrleansConducted by Dominique BeaulieuThe story tells how Hulda seeks revenge on Aslak and his clan, who killed her family. The subject depicts a young woman as a victim, her faith in nature, her destiny,...
Deutsche Grammophon is set to mark the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with the release of three essential albums. “Rachmaninoff speaks to listeners as powerfully today as ever,” says Dr Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon. “His music first entered...
GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell’s forthcoming recording Butterfly Lovers features one of the most renowned works in the Chinese classical violin repertoire, the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto. Recorded with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) and conducted by Tsung Yeh, the...
Known as "the President's Own," the U.S. Marine Band has played for every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson. Today they give 450 public performances each year, plus 200 more at the White House. Listen as this crack military band plays 18...
Award-winning Vietnamese American pianist Quynh Nguyen’s (pron. Quin Nwen) newest recording The Flower of France, Germaine Tailleferre, Works for Piano [MA-1306], is now available on the Music & Arts label. The album features works, curated by Nguyen, originally for solo...
Acante et Céphise, ou La sympathie is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 19 November 1751 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts. The librettist was Jean-François Marmontel. The...
Olga Kopylova, the principal pianist of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), performs in this album as a tribute to the 30-year artistic journey of Brazilian composer and conductor Rodrigo Vitta, a collection of unpublished works written for the...
Following GRAMMY®-Nominated Blueprinting, Earthdrawn Skies explores connections between humankind and nature through the works of Hildegard von Bingen, Eleanor Alberga, Komitas Vardapet, and Sibelius.Earthdrawn Skies Tracklist1. Hildegard von Bingen – Columba aspexit (arr. Alex Fortes) [6:38]Eleanor Alberga – String Quartet...
19262 My Favorite Works by Eric CoatesGertrude Heinz, conductorCMD German Opera Company of BerlinTelevision MarchThe Three MenCinderellaThe Dam BustersLast LoveSweet SeventeenThe Three ElizabethsHelp support our show by purchasing this album at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple...
“Blue stands for a particularly intimate mood,” says renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. And correspondingly his latest album is titled The Blue Album. “Blue symbolizes a mysterious intermediary realm: one thinks of the moment when the sun rises and night...
The story of how Mozart fell in love with the young singer Aloysia Weber, was dumped and then married her younger sister Constanze is well known. The fact that a third sister, Josepha, figured in Mozart's career (and that the...
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The essence of Tonči Huljić’s music is eclecticism, his Western melodic style fused with the rich instrumentalism of the Mediterranean and the world resulting in a completely new spirit. This MEDITERRANEAN POP MASS, recorded in Split, Croatia, thoughtfully blends traditional...
Edward Tulane was the first work by a woman to be commissioned by Minnesota Opera as part of the company's New Works Initiative. Said composer Paola Prestini: "I’m immensely grateful that Minnesota Opera chose me for this adventure, and hope...
The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn.The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the Reformation, was composed by...
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7, in accordance with the revised Deutsch catalog and the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe), commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony, is a musical composition that Schubert started...
In 1985, Stanislav Bunin, like Krystian Zimerman ten years earlier, won the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw at the age of 19. The competition was covered in a documentary that was widely broadcast in Japan, and it goes without saying...
Composer Paula Matthusen and visual artist Olivia Valentine release a new album, between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions. between systems and grounds - the overshot sessions is a set of five pieces created as a product of Matthusen...
The recording is an impressive collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning partnership of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra cementing Goosby’s ever-growing stature as a multifaceted talent. Building on his debut album Roots (2021), which celebrated Black classical composers, this album...
Track Listings1 Drums of War - By The Old Bethpage Brass Band - Old Bethpage Brass Band2 Oliver Wendell Holmes - By Paul Roebling - Oliver Wendall Holmes3 Ashokan Farewell - By Jay Ungar, Evan Stover, Matt Glaser, Molly Mason,...
Composer Simon Proctor and pianist Tyler Hay join forces to bring a dynamic collection of Proctor’s original compositions to life on VIRTUOSO PIANO WORKS from Navona Records. With works spanning decades of his musical career, Proctor delivers a variety of...
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Italian for 'Julius Caesar in Egypt'); HWV 17, commonly known as Giulio Cesare, is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1724....
GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart releases of Love., an album dedicated to his mother, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 7, 2021, at age 66. “He is a giant … combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New...
Isata Kanneh-Mason commented: “It was in childhood that my love of classical music first blossomed. The pieces in this album carry with them a certain nostalgia, and I feel almost a sense of longing for childhood in some of them....
In Piano Solos, Fabio Caramuru delves into different moments of his career. He contemplates pieces of his own composition, created between the years 2011 and 2021, and creates new interpretations from them. The experience in both classical and popular music of...
As a small girl, I first heard Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune when my parents played it on the family record player. I instantly fell in love with the piece and wanted to know more about the composer. Little did...
The title of the album and the first single ‘non è la fine’ released on April 14th comes from a sense of endlessness and hope found in it. “Writing ‘non è la fine’, the purpose was to empty out. I...
Frank Felice, an eclectic composer celebrated for his postmodern mischievousness, explores his own brand of “consonant adiatonicism” in THE BEAUTY OF INNUENDOS. Throughout the album, Felice sets a variety of texts to music, ranging from the antiphons of 9th century...
Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem The Borough. The "borough" of the opera is a...
Anna Lapwood is like no other musician, and after recently signing a major label deal with Sony Classical, she releases her 5-track Midnight Sessions At The Royal Albert Hall EP of film transcriptions - out now - recorded on the...
In an album celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff’s birth, cellist John-Henry Crawford and pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion explore the voice-like qualities of the composer’s melodies. From the hauntingly beautiful “Vocalise” to the rousing energy of the “Sonata for Cello...
Icelandic pianist and composer, Eydís Evensen will release her much anticipated second album ‘The Light’ on 26th May via XXIM Records. Following on from her successful 2021 debut ‘Bylur’, which put her firmly on the map as one of the...
Maestra Dominique Beaulieu - My Favorite Works by Tomaso AlbinoniHelp support our show by purchasing this album at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected]
Mozart’s Mannheim has been carefully curated to give 21st-century listeners an idea of the sound world experienced by Mozart when he visited Mannheim in the late 1770s. The southern German city’s legendary court orchestra made it a go-to destination for...
Non-standard setups in classical music may be interesting, but they are commonly faced with the problem of limited repertoire. The ARK Trio, formed by soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson, and pianist Reiko Uchida, has found a way of circumventing...
Track Listing:1 Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7: / I. Allegro orgoglioso 09:202 II. Andante 07:473 III. Allegro comodo 07:494 IV. Allegro con fuoco 08:58 5 Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 The Four Temperaments / I. Allegro collerico...
The Canções de Amor - by Claudio Santoro and Vinicius de Moraes - are a precious encounter between Brazilian music and literature, representing the fusion of sounds and aesthetics that traversed between popular music and classical music in the late...
Milan Records releases TRAVESÍA, an album of music by the late composer RYUICHI SAKAMOTO curated by award-winning filmmaker ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU. Available now both digitally and in vinyl format, Travesía features selections from Sakamoto’s prolific catalog handpicked by Iñárritu, who...
This poignant & emotional body of work features five tracks, including original compositions Peace, St Andrews, and When The Bells Ring, inspired by the untouched beauty of nature and gorgeously arranged versions of Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze, and Jesu,...
Maestra Gertrude Heinz's favorite works by Arvo Part.Help support our show by purchasing this album at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) [email protected]
Sojourns in Solitude has been reissued after 17 years in physical form. This is Greg C. Brown's best-selling CD to date. Order while supplies last. It contains all solo guitar works but concludes with "Transylvania", an orchestral piece for guitar...
Very few genres are as difficult to interpret pianistically as that of contemporary serious music: it often requires a superhuman degree of both virtuosity and patience, and the potential pitfalls of expression are ever-present. Enter Korean pianist Koeun Grace Lee,...
The album is the result of six years Britell spent in close collaboration with director Benjamin Millepied on the film for which Britell also serves as an executive producer. The final 30-track collection is a body of music as expansive...
When Their Majesties King Charles III & Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey next month, the service, and pre-service music, will be exclusively recorded and released by Decca Records the very same day. The Official Album of the Coronation,...
“You can’t rely on virtuosity in Beethoven’s concerto; you have to reveal yourself,” says María Dueñas. And that can only be done through sound.” The supremely talented Spanish violinist will launch her Deutsche Grammophon career in bold fashion by delivering...
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. He is a devout Orthodox Christian and a pioneer of minimalism and tintinnabula styles. He is known for his works for choir and instruments, such as Tabula Rasa, Cantus...
Francis PoulencConcerto in G minor for Organ, Strings, and Timpani, FP 93Joseph JongenSymphonie Concertante for Grand Organ and OrchestraSylvia Keller, organGertrude Heinz, conductorCMD German Opera Company of BerlinRecording and Mixing by CMD RecordingsHelp support our show by purchasing this album ...