Super-Audio CD

All of the works gathered on this album have - as different as they may be - one thing in common: they can be heard in the popular and idealized folk tone popular in the Romantic period. Whether Schumann's Fantasiest?cke or Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata,...

Alexei Ogrintchouk is the principal oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw and one of today's outstanding oboists. He is joined in the C minor Concerto for oboe, violin, strings and B.C. by dazzling young violinist Alina Ibragimova, who toured Australia in...

Alexandre Tansman was one of the most important Polish composers of the 20th century. He enjoyed an excellent reputation as a composer, conductor and pianist. His guitar works, mostly commissioned for Andr?s Segovia, were an important element of his...

Alexander Veprik was regarded as a star in the young Soviet generation of composers of which Dmitri Shostakovich was a member, and his music was enthusiastically performed even in the distant West. But then he fell into disfavor as a victim of Stalin's...

Airy, transparent, light as a feather - if any composer's music answers to these attributes, then it is that of Maurice Ravel, including his Piano Trio, even if this work too has it's more serious moments. On it's newest Super Audio album the Vienna...

Again and again, attempts were made to uncover aspects of a hidden topic in Brahms' suddenly successful 3rd Symphony. The Brahms biographer Max Kalbeck saw the composer's preoccupation with Faust material at work in the middle movements and took the view...

After winning the Prix de Rome for his cantata Fernand in 1839 and spending two years in Rome, Gounod should have gone on to study in Germany, but he managed in 1842 to persuade the authorities that he should remain in Rome to work on a symphony. In 1843...

After two stylistically diverse anthologies - In Motion and Renewal - the United Strings of Europe and their director Julian Azkoul have chosen to devote their latest project to a single composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They open with the composer's...

After their exciting interpretations of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, the Chiaroscuro Quartet now turns to Mozart's Prussian Quartets, his last compositions for this formation. These quartets were written for Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and...

After their acclaimed recording of Weber's Freisch?tz, the Dresdner Philharmonie and it's Principal conductor Marek Janowski present yet another German opera classic with Beethoven's Fidelio. They work together with a stellar cast - well-seasoned in...

After their acclaimed Cavalleria rusticana recording, Marek Janowski and the Dresdner Philharmonie now present Puccini's Il Tabarro. Puccini composed this piece as the first panel of his Trittico (1918), a novel work combining three one-act operas, and...

After the tremendous success of Swan Lake, Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov" continue their Tchaikovksy ballet series on PENTATONE with this recording of The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky's enchanting...