Super-Audio CD

Composed between 1894 and 1916 Wilhelm Stenhammar's body of six numbered string quartets is considered unique among Scandinavian music of it's time, both in it's consistency and in it's musical aspirations. Together, the quartets reflect the composer's...

Completion of an internationally acclaimed series: Aapo H?kkinen and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra conclude the cycle of Bach's harpsichord concertos with the concertos for 3 and 4 harpsichords. Here, too, H?kkinen surprises in terms of instrumentation:...

Completed in 1891 and 1895 respectively, the Piano Concerto No. 1 and the D minor Symphony were Sergei Rachmaninov's first large-scale orchestral compositions, written by a young man still in his early 20s. The composer, whose self-critical vein was...

Collated from three live concerts recorded and mastered in December 2014 by Soundmirror, the the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the watchful baton of Manfred Honeck present the 5th and 7th Symphonies. The fourth in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh...

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birthday, CSO Resound releases it's second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi's second-to-last opera, Otello. Recorded live in concert at Symphony Center in 2011, this album will...

Clavier ?bung means 'a keyboard exercise' or 'practice', which is rather a humble term for such exquisitely-crafted music. Bach borrowed it from Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor as cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, who in 1689 had published a...

Claude Debussy's piano music plays a central role in his compositional oeuvre. Debussy combined Russian as well as Oriental and East Asian influences with his admiration for Bach and the French harpsichord masters to create a relatively compact body of...

City Jazz is a collection of re-imagined Japanese and Cantonese classics, which is a veritable journey through sonic styles and emotion, riddled with well-thought-out arrangements and creative interpretations that simply cannot be done any better by any...

Christus der Meister is the second of three Christus oratorios from the pen of Friedrich Schneider. After the prelude to the trilogy, Christus das Kind, was performed again by the Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke shortly before Christmas 2019 after more than a...

CHRISTOPHER SCHOENER / J.S. BACH / ORGAN TOCCATAS - SUPER-AUDIO CD Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565; Toccata in E major, BWV 566; Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 540; Chorale Prelude "Allein Gott in der H?h' sei Ehr", BWV 662;...

Christmas with Bach: Gerhard L?ffler, the organist at the Church of St. James in Hamburg, has selected this title for his MDG debut. And to it we may add: "And with Arp Schnitger." After all, Schnitger's masterpiece of organ design in St. James is not...

Christina ?strand's album Romance brings together a personal selection of rarely heard items from the classical Danish repertoire for violin. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, the violin enjoyed a star moment of it's own as the...