Super-Audio CD

On her second solo album Lisette Oropesa has combined two of her greatest loves, the French language and Italian bel canto. This recording with the Dresdner Philharmonie under the baton of Corrado Rovaris showcases the variety of lesser-known and more...

On her Pentatone debut album, young German star soprano Anna Lucia Richter explores the heart-wrenching, timeless and universal feeling of Heimweh (homesickness) through a collection of extraordinary Schubert songs. Richter approaches the notion of...

On her new album entitled Tutta Sola, violinist Rachel Podger plays solo repertoire from five European composers who all lived to celebrate new year's eve in 1700. It is a wonderful baroque program of selected solo violin pieces, preludes, dances and...

On her first Pentatone album, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents a highly personal selection of solo works by Bach, Bart?k, Ives and Messiaen. Influences shows how these extraordinarily original and idiosyncratic composers let themselves be inspired by...

On her first Pentatone album, Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko?en returns to the baroque repertoire that launched her early career. Il giardino dei sospiri is a collection of scenes from secular cantatas on tragic love, ranging from Handel's Qual ti...

On Friday February 22, 2013, Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan put the final touches to what will be the 55th and last volume in their monumental series of Bach's sacred cantatas. The disc includes the last extant work by Bach in the genre:...

On a previous album, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has recorded the first half of Joseph Haydn's Op. 76, including No. 3, the celebrated 'Emperor' quartet. The release has won great acclaim, with the critic in Gramophone writing: 'The Chiaroscuros' account of...

On 6 of March 2020, Bach Collegium Japan began their long-awaited 30th anniversary tour of Europe with a performance of Bach's St John Passion in Katowice, Poland. The same week Europe was becoming aware of the very stark reality of the threat posed by...

On 28th December 1995 seven violins, selected instruments created by the world's most famous violin makers, met for a high-class competition. "Who is the fairest in the land?" That was and is the question... "an audiophile celebration (Stereoplay)

Of the two large piano sonatas composed by Charles Ives, No. 2 ('the Concord Sonata') is by far the best-known, overshadowing it's sibling. The First Piano Sonata is comparably ambitious, however, and with a playing time of more than 40 minutes,...

Of all the enigmas that surround Erik Satie and his music, Vexations is probably the most enigmatic. A 'theme' in the bass, with two different harmonizations, to be played - according to an ambiguous note on the composer's autograph - 840 times. That is...

Nuno C?rte-Real (b. 1971) has been working as a composer and conductor for more than twenty years and is one of the most important figures of Portuguese contemporary music. From the beginning, he showed great independence, ignoring the prevailing musical...