Super-Audio CD

The production with Reinhold Friedrich, Eriko Takezawa and Alisa Kratzer unites original works for trumpet and piano as well as arrangements for this instrumentation. One can only share Friedrich's regret that despite numerous, sometimes even exposed...

The Principality of Liechtenstein celebrates it's anniversary - and the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra celebrates with a new release in super audio quality! The orchestra's founding anniversaries are only one year and an important zero apart: while in...

The present release is a showcase of chamber music for oboe, bassoon, and piano by Jean Francaix, Daniel Schnyder, Francis Poulenc, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Christoph Hartmann began his career as an orchestral musician in 1991 with the Stuttgart...

The present release features works for trumpet and organ, played by Adam Rixer and Maurice Clement. Adam Rixer, born in Budapest in 1975, comes from a family of musicians. He began to play the trumpet at the age of ten; at 18, he took up trumpet studies...

The present release combines three works by Dmitri Shostakovich, which do not correspond to the clich? of the composer suffering under the Soviet cultural doctrine. While the almost neo-classical ninth symphony refuses any bombast, the two later works...

The present release "The Sleep of Reason" uses Tedesco's setting of Goya's artwork "El Sue?o de la Raz?n Produce Monstruos" ("The Sleep of Reason gives birth to monsters") as the centerpiece of the album, which summarizes 400 years of "guitar dreams" and...

The present album is the second of two recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Li?ge and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Sa?ns. On the first instalment the team offered us 'deeply impressive...

The present album 'Braiding Chopin' by Andreas Woyke is a continuation of his solo debut 'Braiding Bach'. Compositions by the Polish piano grandmaster of the Romantic period interact with the pianist's own compositions and together form a dramaturgical...

The poetic significance of Risonanze erranti (1985-87) should be interpreted in the light of the reflections developed since the summer of 1975 with the Venetian friend and philosopher Massimo Cacciari, to whom the work is dedicated. After 'Al gran sole...

The players of Holland Baroque continue their PENTATONE journey with Telemann Polonoise. Together with violinist Aisslinn Nosky, they take the listener on a journey to the wild nature and lively folk culture of Poland, viewed through the lens of Georg...

The Piano Quartet 'Beyond the Misty Doors of Memory' is about images from the past. In the first movement "The Old and Grey", the image is evoked of old people literally moving in the mists of their own memories while walking on a misty morning among big...

The piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller (1887-1970), a total of 206 works, is not only the largest part of his output: it is also the largest body of works in Estonian classical music. But most of these pieces are unknown, even though the...