Classical music 2018
Arvo Pärt
The works on Viktoria Mullova's new album devoted to Arvo Pärt's music for violin stem from the composers study of medieval church music, and are products of what Arvo Pärt himself describes as a ‘tintinnabuli'...
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Callas in Concert: The Hologram Tour
Although Maria Callas died aged just fifty-three in September 1977, she remains the epitome of the operatic diva: the American-born Greek soprano who defined, and even redefined, opera in the 20th century. Callas in Concert: The...
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Schubert: Winterreise
One of the greatest song cycles ever written, Schubert's Winterreise follows a young man spurned by his beloved who wanders through a frozen landscape in ever-increasing states of existential angst, terror and paranoia.<br...
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Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma's new album Six Evolutions - Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma's life when he was four, when he...
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Heroines
Stunning young Australian soprano Nicole Car is one of the brightest stars in international opera. In September 2018 she will make her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera opposite Vittorio Grigolo and Michael Fabiano, and...
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Himmelsmusik
Himmelsmusik (‘heavenly music'), a programme of sacred songs and cantatas by German composers of the 17th century, presents a striking contrast with the previous Erato album from Christina Pluhar and her ensemble...
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Bach Concertos
The Grigoryan Brothers return with an album of J.S. Bach's best-loved concertos, newly arranged for two guitars and orchestra.
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Steve Reich: Drumming
Kuniko's latest recording sees the hugely talented percussionist return to the music of Steve Reich. In Drumming she delivers a tour-de-force performance of the work, performing all thirteen parts herself and once again displaying...
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Si (Deluxe edition)
Presenting, 'Sì:' Andrea Bocelli's first album of new material in 14 years.
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re:member
BAFTA winning artist, composer, musician and producer Olafur Arnalds returns with brand new album 're:member.'At the centre of this is the neoclassical wonder's ground-breaking new software, Stratus, which transforms...
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Schmelzer: The Emperor’s Fiddler
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer was a leading violin virtuoso in mid-seventeenth-century Europe, highly favoured by Holy Roman Emperors Ferdinand III and Leopold I. His six Sonatæ unarum fidium (Sonatas for one fiddle) take pride...
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Antonio Vivaldi
In 1999, Cecilia Bartoli unveiled her iconic ‘Vivaldi Album'. ‘The Vivaldi Album' went gold in 6 countries and sold over 700,000 copies. Almost 20 years later, Cecilia Bartoli returns to opera arias by the Baroque...
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Romantic Bach: From Intimate to Epic
Featuring 11 of Bach's compositions transcribed and arranged, from Rachmaninoff's arrangement of the Violin Partita in E major into a pianistic showpiece, to Myra Hess's sublime ‘Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring', Jayson...
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Celtic Lute
On his new recording, American Lutenist Ronn McFarlane continues his love affair with Celtic music on a journey through Ireland and Scotland. Included on this recording are traditional pieces and music by the blind Irish...
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À Portuguesa: Iberian Concertos and Sonatas
À Portuguesa offers Iberian exoticism with a difference. In the Age of Enlightenment, Portuguese music shared the favours of certain English publishers with its Spanish neighbour and drank at the inexhaustible source of the...
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tackle the infinite and the immeasurable in the form of Berlioz's Requiem. All the grandiose, striking beauty of the Requiem's large-scale ceremonial is encapsulated by...
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Chopin: Nocturnes
A graceful and charismatic performer, Ingrid Fliter is known for her effortless technique and thoughtful, sensitive music-making. On this new recital, Fliter delights us with characteristically insightful interpretations which...
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Life
Igor Levit presents a new and highly personal album that has been sparked by the tragic death of a close friend. Levit reflects at the keyboard on the experience of loss, hovering between grief and despair, resignation and solace....
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J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo
On this recording, Bach's six cello suites are played on the viola by one of the instrument's greatest exponents, Kim Kashkashian. For Kashkashian, Bach's music is both a ‘true and faithful companion' and a reference point...
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Bach Inspirations
Guitarist Thibaut Garcia releases his second album, a recital of works composed and inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach. Taking Bach's mighty Chaconne as his centrepiece, he ranges wide: from Charles Gounod's much-loved ‘Ave...
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Into the Fire: Live at Wigmore Hall
Recorded live at London's celebrated Wigmore Hall, this captivating recital by Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano Quartet was conceived around Jake Heggie's song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, a work written for DiDonato - she...
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Calling The Muse: Old & New Pieces for Theorbo
Bruno Helstroffer writes of his new release:"It's a logbook, the one I've never really kept. My years of blues/rock and early music mingle here; the thousands of kilometers travelled with that theorbo of mine, the...
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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 & Pieces for Solo Piano
Following his award-winning survey of Ravel's complete solo piano works, Bertrand Chamayou takes on some of the most brilliant yet fiendishly virtuosic music in the French Romantic repertoire on his new Saint-Saëns album,...
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Telemann: Sacred Cantatas
This new recording features bass-baritone and Telemann expert Klaus Mertens performing undiscovered sacred cantatas for bass solo with the L'arpa festante chamber orchestra. Discovered in archives, some of these cantatas were...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The simply named Bach album features original works alongside inspired adaptations by composers including Rachmaninov, Busoni and Ólafsson himself. Renowned for his innovative musical projects, the pianist here offers...
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (DVD)
After Tristan und Isolde (2016) and Parsifal (2017) this is the third installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclusive...
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An Italian Night: Live from the Waldbuhne Berlin
A magical evening dedicated to beautiful Italian music with the world's greatest tenor. Captured live for release on CD. Featuring Anita Rachvelishvili. This is the key release this year from "The world's greatest tenor"...
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One Voice: Believe
The final instalment in Aled Jones' hugely successful One Voice album trilogy!One of the UK's most popular singers and presenters, Aled Jones MBE returns to complete what has been an extraordinary journey, with the...
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Bernstein: A Quiet Place
Decca Classics and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal are proud to present the world premiere recording of the chamber version of Leonard Bernstein's ‘A Quiet Place', adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland. It is...
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11
Deutsche Grammophon proudly continues the widely acclaimed, Grammy winning Shostakovich Symphony cycle with Music Director Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Andris Nelsons is the Music Director of the...
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Delibes: Coppélia
Léo Delibes's Coppélia might not have the profile of Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores, but it is every bit as important. Rarely recorded in its entirety, Coppélia is a charming and beautiful ballet featuring...
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Bailar Cantando: Fiesta Mestiza en el Peru
The twenty pieces comprising the musical collection in the Codex Trujillo del Perú are an exceptional case in the history of the indigenous music of the New World. This collection of tonadas, cachuas, tonadillas, bayles,...
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
The award-winning Early Opera Company under the direction of founder Christian Curnyn celebrates the 300th anniversary of the premiere of one of Handel's most sublime creations: Acis and Galatea.This unique...
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Debussy Songs Vol. 4
A recital of songs spanning Debussy's entire compositional career, from ‘Tragédie' written in early 1881, to his very last song, ‘Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons' from the end of 1915. <br...
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Bruch Scottish Fantasy
A new Sony Classical release from Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell showcases two masterpieces from romantic composer Max Bruch. The album features Bell's first recording of the virtuosic Scottish Fantasy as well as a new...
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Classic 100 Dance
Dance is a universal human activity; something that everyone can do. From toddlers to nonagenarians, everyone in the world can feel a beat and move in some form to music that moves them. The Classic 100 Dance is a...
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The Golden Age
The Golden Age showcases works from the ‘golden age' of the violin, with arrangements/ transcriptions by Kreisler and Heifetz. The centrepiece is Max Bruch's Violin Concerto, performed with the London Philharmonic...
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Gaspar Sanz: Complete Music For Guitar
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) was born in Calanda, Aragón in Spain. As a young student he went to Italy to learn his craft and art, and studied with the masters in Rome and Naples. His most important publication was published in...
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Open Heart Story
Open Heart Story, the new album by Australian modern classical composer and pianist Luke Howard, is a reflective and introspective journey. In Luke's own words, the album ‘explores fragmented relationships,...
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The Aussie Album
The Benaud Trio return with The Aussie Album, a beautiful and arresting collection of works that captures modern-day Australia through music.
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J.S Bach: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Debut album by the next young and talented violinist on Deutsche Grammophon, following the successful footsteps of Anne-Sophie Mutter and David Garrett who both joined the label as youngsters.The youngest musician...
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John Adams: Doctor Atomic
Nonesuch releases the first studio recording of John Adams' 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created Doctor Atomic's libretto, drawing from original sources. The composer leads the BBC Singers...
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Bach & Telemann: Cantatas for Baritone
A famous cantata for baritone by Johann Sebastian Bach ("Kreuzstabkantate"), combined with two cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann. In addition and as a supplementary musical colour there are three purely instrumental...
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Kennedy Meets Gershwin
Classical superstar Nigel Kennedy returns with a critically acclaimed programme of the music of George Gershwin, hailed by The Guardian as "rip-roaring and exquisitely tender", spirited and playful gypsy jazz...
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Pastoral Fables: Works for cor anglais and piano
On Pastoral Fables, Alexandre Oguey and Neal Peres da Costa take famous sonatas by Brahms, Beethoven and Schumann and rearrange them for cor anglais and period piano.The cor anglais (woodwind instrument of the oboe...
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John Williams plays Bach (4 CDs)
The Australian guitarist John Williams has long been universally recognized as a true master, to quote the Guardian. The centrepiece of Sony's new reissue of his Bach recordings is formed by the Suites for solo lute. Also...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky continues his exploration of operatic settings of the Orpheus myth with the most famous of the many operas inspired by the story of the Greek poet who searches for his dead wife in the...
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Four Worlds
A clear crowd favourite at the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition (SIPCA) due to his incendiary technique and warm stage presence, Moye Chen was awarded the George Frederick Boyle Prize and was signed to Universal Music...
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John Adams: Violin Concerto
Nonesuch releases a new recording of John Adams' Grawemeyer Award-winning Violin Concerto (1993) with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The...
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Concertante!
The members of Les Vents Français, which has been described as "the wind-quintet equivalent of a supergroup" join the Munich Chamber Orchestra and conductor Daniel Giglberger in five examples of the sinfonia...
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America: Brilliant and Bold (8 CDs)
Discover two centuries of brilliant and bold American classical music - music with the majesty to define a nation, the brilliance to change the way we see the world, and the energy to embrace the variety and vastness of the land...
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Home
Embracing songs repeatedly requested by her legion of fans, Home is Adelaide-born Greta Bradman's tribute to her homeland, and will feature 20 songs and arias that best encapsulate the essence of family, friends, and returning to...
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Baroque: Music for Viola
Nils Mönkemeyer is a German violist and academic teacher. He has recorded several CDs, of viola literature and arrangements for the viola, making it a respected solo instrument. He has been awarded several international...
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Haydn: Piano Sonatas Hob. XVI. Nos. 32, 40, 49 & 50
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide, and consolidated his...
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Wayfaring
Wayfaring brings together Italian-Australian cellist Umberto Clerici with German-Australian guitarist Karin Schaupp, for a musical journey through a rich tapestry of cultures, ages and emotions.Clerici and...
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Vocalise
The two-time ECHO Klassik winner Nuria Rial is not only one of the most important sopranos of early music, but has thrilled with her velvet and expressive voice also with compositions of the 20th and 21st century. For this...
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Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina
Paul Van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble have recorded the first opera ever to be composed by a woman: Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina. They have fully engaged with this operatic jewel from the...
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Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets
One of Australia's most awarded and well-respected chamber ensembles - the Tinalley String Quartet - has embarked on an exciting new chapter of recordings. Making their first appearance on the Decca Classics Australia label, they...
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Bernstein: Mass
Jacqueline Kennedy commissioned Leonard Bernstein to compose this massive work for the inauguration of the Kennedy Centre in New York. It premiered on 8 September 1971. Bernstein decided to write an innovative Mass and what came...
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I’ll Walk Beside You
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Australia's favourite baritone, returns with his first solo album in four years.I'll Walk Beside You features music of journeys, physical, emotional and spiritual: from one land to another, life to...
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Cello Swoon
For over 20 years, the ‘Swoon' segment on ABC Classic FM's Breakfast show has been a beloved oasis of calm and beauty, a chance to shut out the noise and busyness of everyday life, and drink in the loveliness of pure music....
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The Verdi Album
Soprano Sonya Yoncheva has dedicated her latest release to the music of Verdi. This album includes arias ranging from Verdi's most celebrated works-including Don Carlo and Otello- to some lesser-known gems. Sonya commences her...
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After Bach
Nonesuch releases Brad Mehldau's After Bach on March 9, 2018. The album comprises the pianist/composer's recordings of four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, each followed by an "After Bach"...
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Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich: String Quartets
Orava Quartet's debut album on Deutsche Grammophon AustraliaFeatured works include Tchaikovsky's String Quartet no.1, Rachmaninov's String Quartet no.1 (unfinished), Shostakovich's String Quartet no.8 and...
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Inspiration
Inspiration reflects Sheku's own inspirations and influences, featuring a broad range of music from Bob Marley and Jacqueline du Pre to Shostakovich, including some of Sheku's own arrangements.The album...
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Home
This is Kian Soltani's Debut album on DG with duo partner Aaron Pilsan.HOME: A concept album combining Kian's Austrian and Persian roots, reflected in the choice of repertoire: Cello highlights including one of the...
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New Year' s Concert 2018
The 2018 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert took place on January 1, 2018, under the baton of Riccardo Muti in the Musikverein in Vienna. This year's concert marked the fifth time - after 1993, 1997, 2000 and 2004 - that...
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Piano Quartet in C minor / Sonata for Violin & Piano / In Black Ink
A collection of instrumental and vocal chamber music.
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Smetana: Má Vlast - In memoriam Jiří Bělohlávek
The great Czech conductor and his beloved orchestra perform a definitive Má vlast.
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Symphony of Seduction: Great Love Music of the Classical Composers
‘Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.' Romantic composer Hector BerliozFrom the creator of Swoon comes an enthralling introduction to the great love music of the...
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Renaissance Choral Masterworks
The Renaissance era of the 16th and 17th centuries encompasses some of the most magnificent choral music ever written, at a time when composers were attached to royal chapels and cathedrals, and dedicated their art to the service...
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Reich: Pulse/Quartet
Steve Reich's Pulse/Quartet includes the world-premiere recordings of Pulse, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Quartet, played by the Colin Currie Group. The Los Angeles Times...
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