Super-Audio CD

In 2015, when Ruby Hughes discovered Clytemnestra by the Welsh composer Rhian Samuel, the work had not been performed since it's premi?re some 20 years earlier. Hughes describes the 24-minute score as 'sun-scorched and luscious' as well as 'intensely...

In 2011, three world-class musicians, Italian pianist Paolo Giacometti, Scottish violinist Candida Thompson and Serbian-Russian cellist Xenia Jankovic decided to join forces and form the Hamlet Piano Trio. All three have earned their stripes, both as...

In 2010, Pentatone embarked on an ambitious project: recording the ten major Richard Wagner operas with the same musical forces. Never before had a record company recorded all of Wagner's operas with the same orchestra, choir and conductor, even the same...

In 2010 Neeme Jervi began his Scandinavian project, offering up idiomatic performances of Norwegian composers. Similar in approach, this new survey turns to Sweden, with Jervi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in orchestral works by one of...

In 2008 PentaTone started the recording of a complete Bruckner Symphonies cycle with the.1. Kyrie - Moderato 2. Gloria - Allegro - Andante, Mehr Adagio (Sehr Langsam) 3. Credo - Allegro - Moderato Misterioso - Langsam - Allegro 4. Sanctus - Moderato -...

In 2007 Frank Peter Zimmermann was able to realize his long-cherished dream to establish a string trio, together with Antoine Tamestit and Christian Polt?ra. Three individually superb string players do not necessarily add up to a top-flight trio - even...

In 1995 Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan began the monumental task of recording J.S. Bach's extant church cantatas - an adventure that was brought to a close 18 years later. But Bach also composed a number of cantatas for secular occasions of...

In 1981 Tenor Sax legend Illinois Jacquet pursued his career-long dream of assembling a truly great big jazz band in the tradition of his mentors, Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, bands with whom he recorded and toured in his youth. He would apply all the...

In 1979, Chris Jones and Charlie Carr came together to record some of their own songs along with a few traditional pieces. The tapes of this recording lay hidden in the Stockfish archive for 40 years, only to resurface again in 2019. Stockfish Records is...

In 1971, Einojuhani Rautavaara was asked to compose a Finnish Orthodox church service, an all-night vigil similar to that of Rachmaninov, comprising Vespers as well as Matins. Soon after the first performance he reshaped the music into what we now know...

In 1892, when Camille Saint-Sa?ns started on his Piano Trio No. 2, almost 30 years had passed since his first, widely celebrated work in the genre, his Op. 18. In the meantime the composer had come to be regarded as hopelessly old-fashioned by many of...

In 1805, on the basis of his brilliant yet expressive playing, the 21-year-old Louis Spohr was appointed Konzertmeister at the ducal court in Gotha. By this time he had also begun to make his mark as a composer, and during his years at the court he would...