Super-Audio CD

On their musical journey to the four corners of the world, Ensemble Esperanza are turning their sights to the West in the third album of the series. Following previous explorations of the northern and southern parts of Europe, the youthful and ambitious...

On their latest disc, the Danish-Swedish Sirena Recorder Quartet treats US to a wide-ranging selection from their regular concert repertoire. Now & Then illustrates the huge variety of sounds and moods that can be achieved by just four recorder players -...

On their fifth disc of Mozart's concertos, an ongoing series which has been described as 'a lucky break and a true delight' in the German magazine Piano News, Ronald Brautigam and Die Kolner Akademie perform Concerto No.20 in D minor and Piano Concerto...

On the violin Henri Vieuxtemps made his quick way from one success to the next, and Robert Schumann even compared him to Niccolo Paganini. However, the viola was his secret love, and he created some of his most beautiful compositions for it. Christian...

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the composer's birth, six internationally acclaimed soloists are now presenting chamber music by Francis Poulenc, and what these young musicians, all of them active in Switzerland, charm onto the stage, grips...

On the heels of their extremely successful Shostakovich string quartet project the Mandelring Quartet now embark on another ambitious project: The complete string chamber music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The first volume in the anticipated set, this...

On the extremely rarely heard, sonorous Christian Zell harpsichord from 1741, Bob van Asperen makes it clear that Bach's art of the fugue is to be met with the same joy of playing the harpsichord as other Bach keyboard works. For the duets, Asperen's...

On the 3rd January 2019, only a few weeks after winning the 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Can ?akmur returned to the ACT CITY Concert Hall in Hamamatsu in order to record his d?but release. Can's chosen programme reflects his...

On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians, this project is a reminder, after more than two years of...

On one of the most highly anticipated releases of the year, Ivan Fischer conducts music of Richard Wagner, offering a demonstration quality surround-sound disc featuring excerpts of favorite passages from Gotterdammerung and Die Meistersinger von...

On his first album released on Pentatone, multiple prize-winning conductor Ren? Jacobs' finally records Schubert, his first great musical love. Jacobs delivers his fresh perspective on the favorite composer of his youth together with the exceptional...

On her sixth album for the Myrios classics label, Romance Oubli?e, Tabea Zimmermann has chosen a selection of miniatures for the viola, including almost entirely forgotten works by popular composers of the 19th c. like Liszt, Vierne, Vieuxtemps and...