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Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss s electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler s Totenfeier, released by PENTATONE to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra. |
Artist: Artist: Vladimir Jurowski / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra|
Phantasm is recognised as the most exciting viol consort active on the world scene today. This latest recording honours the most celebrated Elizabethan composer of Renaissance consort music, William Byrd. |
Artist: Phantasm|
Debut album by the next young and talented violinist on Deutsche Grammophon, following the successful footsteps of Anne-Sophie Mutter and David Garrett who both joined the label as youngsters. |
Artist: Daniel Lozakovich & Kammerorchester des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks|
After the death of Erik Satie, dozens of unsent love letters were found in his Paris apartment. Now composer Elena Kats-Chernin and pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska send those letters off, in 26 meditative and passionate piano miniatures inspired by Satie’s extraordinary life and music. |
Artist: Tamara Anna Cislowska|
A double Second Prize winner at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 2011 (To my ears she gave the more exciting interpretation of the mandatory Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto: a blistering reading that left me gasping. |
Artist: Yeol Eum Son, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner|
The programme of Maurice Clement’s album Confluences represents ‘a process of merger’ in which works by a number of composers are contrasted with one another. Taking a transcription of the Prelude from Tristan (in a concert version arranged by the composer) as point of departure, the pieces illustrate the influence of Wagner on German and French composers from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth. |
Artist: Maurice Clément|
Both accomplished soloists with impressive international careers, violinist Judith Ingolfsson and pianist Vladimir Stoupel began their successful collaboration in 2006. The duo devotes themselves to the discovery and performance of uncommon repertoire. |
Artist: Judith Ingolfsson & Vladimir Stoupel|
Graceful, refined and irresistibly charming, the Flute Quartets occupy an exquisite place in Mozart’s incomparable chamber music. This light, airy music with its vivid contrasts, delicious textures and irrepressible wit is brought to life by the soloists of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in this new release. |
Artist: Philipp Beckert, Georg Boge, Ulf-Dieter Schaaff, Andreas Willwohl|
March, 1973... A quartet known for its psychedelic inclinations delivered a fortress of an album: 'The Dark Side of The Moon' was a musical UFO featuring the most advanced technology of the period, a stratospheric record which mirrored society and our errant human ways. |
Artist: Nguyên Lê with NDR Bigband, Michael Gibbs feat. Youn Sun Nah|
The Munich Philharmonic has arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings lead by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Munich Philharmonic are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta. |
Artist: Münchner Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev