Piano Postcards: Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough, piano
Hough's own transcriptions lead the way in this glittering collection of short character …
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Category: Romantic
Labeque 55: Anniversary Collection
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Fifty-five years after Olivier Messiaen "discovered" two teenage pianists in a practise r…
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Schubert Treasures (Complete Dances)
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Buchbinder marks his 80th year as an elder statesman of the piano world, with 160 Schuber…
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Verdi La Traviata
Ileana Cotrubas, Placido Domingo, Carlos Kleiber, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester
The 2024 Atmos remaster of this all-time great Traviata opens the soundstage, but the mai…
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Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer
A recording for the ages: the firebrand soloist reinvents herself as a collaborator, Arge…
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Granados Goyescas Books I & II
Charlotte Hu (piano)
Where Larrocha spun a folkloric travelogue, Charlotte Hu takes us on a languorous journey…
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Schumann Andante and Variations WoO 10
Renaud Capuçon (Violin), Martha Argerich (Piano), Lahav Shani (Piano), Alexander Möck (Violin), Jano Lisboa (Viola), Floris Mijnders (Cello), Marcel Johannes Kits (Cello), Matias Piñeira (Horn)
Martha Argerich continues to champion the original version of Schumann's novel and intrig…
Debussy Late Chamber Music
The Nash Ensemble (Stephanie Gonley, violin; Adrian Brendel, cello; and members)
The Nash Ensemble's take on Debussy's three late sonatas plays them as the wartime distil…
Schubert Piano Music for Four Hands · The Carnegie Hall Concert
Evgeny Kissin, James Levine
Two pianos are better than one? This Kissin-Levine Schubert four hands recital documents …
Debussy Chamber Sonatas · Chamber Sonatas
Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Gérard Caussé (viola), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp)
An all-star French cast brings urgency to Debussy's late chamber works, with Bertrand Cha…
Debussy Late Works · The Late Works
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp)
Harmonia Mundi celebrates the Debussy centenary with six of the most searching chamber mu…
Schubert 4 Hands Piano
Bertrand Chamayou, Leif Ove Andsnes
Chamayou and Andsnes bring nearly a decade of shared Schubert experience to bear on this …
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Atmos)
Georg Solti (conductor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), Wolfgang Windgassen (Siegfried), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gunther), Gottlob Frick (Hagen), Claire Watson (Gutrune), Christa Ludwig (Waltraute)
Solti's Ring, produced by John Culshaw in the early 1960s, revolutionized the art of reco…
Night Music: Schumann & Ravel
Jan Lisiecki (piano)
More like a cabinet of curiosities than an evocation of night, but a cabinet filled with …