Artist: John Eliot Gardiner Monteverdi’s great opera is a celebration of unwavering devotion, conveyed in some of the composer’s most poignant, heart-breaking music. After two brutal decades of war, the weary Ulysses is washed up on the rocky shore of his home island of Ithaca. |
Artist: Lise de la Salle |
Artist: Artur Schnabel |
Artist: Youri Egorov |
Artist: Alexei Lubimov The continuation of an exciting new project: the recording of the complete piano sonatas by Dussek! Dussek’s style is rich, harmonically expressive and pianistically challenging, Classicism on the brink of Early Romanticism. |
Artist: Alexander Melnikov A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colourist’ and father of modern music. |
Artist: Trio Metamorphosi |
Artist: Sviatoslav Richter This SACD remastering from Praga's Reminiscences series features pianist Sviatoslav Richter playing solo works by Franz Liszt. Richter's concert programs often included major works by Liszt, and his interpretations of these works often rivaled those of Horowitz, Arrau and Gilels. |
Artist: Dinu Lipatti |
Artist: VA For the price, Decca's five-disc collection entitled Ultimate Cello Classics does a fairly nice job of introducing listeners to some of the instrument's great literature. |