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SMETANA, B.: Dvĕ vdovy (The Two Widows) [Opera] (Kučerová, Kněžíková, Breslik, Plachetka, Sibera, Nekoranec, Prague Radio Symphony, Jindra) more

RACHMANINOV, S.: Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 / Morceaux de salon, Op. 10 / 4 Pieces / 3 Nocturnes (Giltburg) more

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 (Quartetto Adorno, Marangoni) more

Piano Trios - ROSLAVETS, N.A. / SHOSTAKOVICH, D. (History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 10 - Soviet Avant-garde) (Brahms Trio) more

FRITZE, G.: Overtures and Symphonies (London Symphony, Sanz-Espert) more

ELGAR, E.: Cello Concerto / IRELAND, J. / BRIDGE, F.: Cello Sonatas (English Cello Works) (Brantelid, Forsberg, Royal Danish Orchestra, Søndergård) more

KULLAK, T.: Piano Works - Grande Sonate / Symphonie de Piano / Ballade / Scherzo / Impromptu-Caprice (Romantic Piano, Vol. 7) (R. Fediurko) more

YAO, Chen: Chamber Music - Cloud Herding / Sentiments of Qin / Jun / Cloud - Mountain - Wind - Pine (QINscape) (Xuemeng Wu, Mei Huang, Leiji Chen) more

POLIGNAC, A. de: Piano Works (Belthoise, Costa Ferreira) more

HINDEMITH, P.: Cardillac [Opera] (Konieczny, Boecker, Lippert, Bankl, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Meister) more

GRUBER, H.K.: Piano Concerto / Short Stories from the Vienna Woods / Castles in the Air (Dupree, Vienna Radio Symphony, HK Gruber) more

MASCAGNI, P.: Zanetto [Opera] (Yajie Zhang, Yeghiyan, Berliner Operngruppe Choir and Orchestra, Krieger) more

BRUCKNER, A.: Te Deum / Mass No. 3 (WDR Chorus, SWR Vocal Ensemble and Symphony, Heras-Casado) more

VASKS, P.: 80th Anniversary Edition more

GERBER, S.R.: Music in Dark Times (Nuremberg Symphony, D. Boico) more

BRUCKNER, A.: Mass No. 3 (WDR Chorus, SWR Vocal Ensemble and Symphony, Heras-Casado) more

CHOPIN, F.: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-17, 22-25 (Lilamand) more

CHOPIN, F.: Mazurkas, Vol. 2 - Nos. 26-32, 36-41, 46-49 (Lilamand) more

HANDEL, G.F.: Resurrezione (La) [Oratorio] (Töpler-Marizy, Kertész-Gabry, Lisken, Fackert, Wenk, Santini Chamber Orchestra, Ewerhart) more

HANDEL, G.F.: Israel in Egypt [Oratorio] (Burton, B. Allen, Chabay, Conant, Prince-Joseph, The Dessoff Choirs, Symphony of the Air, Boepple) more

SCHÜTZ, H.: Johannes-Passion (Markus, Müller-Heuser, Kölschbach, Esser, Küpper, Georg, Heidbüchel, Cologne Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble, Hömberg) more

FALKNER, J.M.: Moonfleet (Unabridged) more

Audiovisual Productions

WAGNER, R.: Tristan und Isolde [Opera] (Semperoper Dresden, 2024) (NTSC) more

TEATRO LA FENICE: New Year's Concert 2025 (Sicilia, Demuro, Teatro La Fenice Chorus and Orchestra, Harding) (NTSC) more

Opera Production of the Week

The Royal Opera: Peter Grimes trailer

Top Charts

ORCHESTRAL COLLECTION (THE) more

TRENET, Charles: La Mer (1938-1946) more

ITALY - Joel Francisco Perri: Mandolins from Italy (24 Most Popular Melodies) more

CLASSICAL MUSIC - 30 of the Best more

HITS OF THE 1940s, Vol. 1 (1940): I'll Never Smile Again more

TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Nutcracker (The) (Russian National Orchestra, Pletnev) more

Chamber Music (Romantic 19th Century) - SCHUBERT, F. / WEBER, C.M. von / SPOHR, L. / BRAHMS, J. / GRIEG, E. / SCHUMANN, R. / BOCCHERINI, L. more

CLASSIC MASTERWORKS - Antonio Vivaldi more

MACABRE MASTERPIECES more

SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / The Bolt Suite / Tahiti Trot (Russian State Symphony Orchestra, D. Yablonsky) more

VIVALDI: Four Seasons (The) / Violin Concertos, Op. 3, Nos. 6 and 8 more

Ballet Music - BURGMULLER, J.F.F. / TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I. / MINKUS, L. / PAULLI, H.S. / HERTEL, P.L. / ASAFIEV, B.V. (Spassov) more

VIVALDI, A.: Four Seasons (The) / Violin Concerto in E-Flat Major / Concerto for Four Violins in B Minor (Lautenbacher) more

FAMOUS AUSTRIAN COMPOSERS - STRAUSS / MOZART, W.A. / SCHUBERT, F. / BEETHOVEN, L. van / HAYDN, J. / HAYDN, M. / ALBRECHTSBERGER, J.G. more

TRANQUILITY - Music for Relaxation more

MOZART: Piano Concertos, Vol. 6 more

CHOPIN: Nocturnes more

LISZT, F.: Scherzo and March / 3 Liebesträume / Berceuse (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 10) (Jandó) more

101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies more

Sephardic Romances: Traditional Jewish Music from Spain more

News

Backtrack of the week. Elgar.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is an orchestral miniature by Elgar, music that represents a less familiar side to his work but nonetheless imparts engaging, wistful charm and immediate melodic appeal.

Critically Acclaimed

ALCHEMY OF THE PIANO (THE) (Documentary, 2024) (NTSC) more

SULLIVAN, A.: Gondoliers (The) [Operetta] (Scottish Opera, 2021) (NTSC) more

Videos

SHOR: Humoresque (2019) #musicvideo

Playlists

New & Now Classical

Date Night Classical

Sound of Winter (The)

Calming Classical

Meditation and Reflection

Classical Artists on Tour

Upcoming
Past Tours

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Sarsota, Florida, USA

Giancarlo Guerrero
Sarasota Orchestra

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Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Jun Märkl
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Italy

Pietari Inkinen
Nicole Wacker, soprano Teresa Iervolino, mezzo-soprano Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

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Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland

Hannu Lintu
Jostein: Johan Reuter Kathrine: Jenny Carlstedt Solveig: Helena Juntunen Arne: Niklas Björling Rygert Tove: Minna-Leena Lahti Egil: Tommi Hakala Turid: Mari Palo Gaute: Nicklas Söderlund Ramsvik: Janne Sihvo Ole: Jere Hölttä The Artist: Iris Candelaria Th

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Bradenton, Florida, USA

Giancarlo Guerrero
Sarasota Orchestra

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12

Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland

Hannu Lintu
Jostein: Johan Reuter Kathrine: Jenny Carlstedt Solveig: Helena Juntunen Arne: Niklas Björling Rygert Tove: Minna-Leena Lahti Egil: Tommi Hakala Turid: Mari Palo Gaute: Nicklas Söderlund Ramsvik: Janne Sihvo Ole: Jere Hölttä The Artist: Iris Candelaria Th

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12

Katowice, POLAND

Marin Alsop
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Philharmonie Mercatorhalle, Duisburg, Germany

Robert Treviño
David Orlowsky, clarinet Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra

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Podcasts

Classical Discoveries: KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - Life in Four Quartets

Classical Discoveries: KURT WEILL - From Brecht to Broadway

Podcast: Composer Ronald Stevenson. A fantastically original musical mind.

Podcast: Florence Price's choral works. An introduction.

Podcast: Joby Talbot details the progression of his ballet score, The Winter’s Tale.

Podcast: Assembled again. The Peterhouse Partbooks.

Podcast: Sweeping Romanticism. Polish folk spirit. Orchestral music by Zygmunt Noskowski.

Podcast: Bizarre and beautiful. Telemann, Vivaldi, Rosetti horn concertos.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - REDISCOVERING SALIERI - Werner Ehrhardt on raiding the archives

Podcast: Valentin Silvestrov. A powerful voice, defiant in exile.

Podcast: Alan Hovhaness. A prolific legacy of East-West synthesis.

Podcast: Vasari Singers. Close harmony. Open perfection.

Podcast: Introducing piano works by Oscar Lorenzo Fernández.

Podcast: Introducing the symphonic sphere of Leevi Madetoja

Podcast: From expressive intimacy to rhythmic incision. Music for guitar trio.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: The Symphonies

Podcast: Transcription addiction. Liszt refashions Mozart and Donizetti.

Podcast: Weigl’s Third Symphony. A long overdue premiere.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - CHARLES KOECHLIN: France's Hidden Symphonist

Podcast: Florence Price. The concertos.

Podcast: Lepo Sumera. At the forefront of Estonian music.

Podcast: Evocative, filmic, celebratory. Sacred choral music by Philip Stopford.

Podcast: Weinberg's complete music for cello and orchestra.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Film Music Scores

Podcast: Mischief, brevity, constancy. Piano works by Vittorio Rieti.

Podcast: César Guerra-Peixe. The Brazilian Bartók.

Podcast: Miklós Rózsa. A double creative life.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - EASTER CLASSICS beyond J. S. Bach

Podcast: Flights of imagination. Michael Daugherty's new orchestral album.

Podcast: Goffredo Petrassi. Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1-3.

Podcast: Alexey Shor. A suite, a nocturne and a concerto

Podcast: Notker Balbulus, a mediaeval marvel.

Podcast: Classical Discoveries - FRANZ SCHMIDT: beyond the "Seven Seals"

Podcast: Karabtchevsky on Villa-Lobos.

Podcast: Weaving intellect with emotion: Daron Hagen's cantata Everyone, Everywhere

Podcast: Lutenist Yasunori Imamura plays transcriptions of Bach

Podcast: An introduction to Christian Sinding’s four symphonies.

Podcast: A Brazilian discovery. Francisco Mignone's late violin sonatas

Podcast: Regaining recognition. Paul Wranitzky's orchestral works.

Podcast: Christmas fizz. Black Dyke presents John Rutter.

Podcast: Composer Kenneth Fuchs. The latest recordings.

Podcast: Two into one does go. The music of Nikolai Kapustin.

Podcast: Convention defied. Beethoven defined. The final three cello sonatas.

Podcast: Dale Kavanagh & Friends

Podcast: Latin Landscapes

Podcast: Sheer Bliss.

Podcast: Maria Herz (1878-1950). An overdue renaissance of an extraordinary musician.

Podcast: The VOX Elite Recordings: Susskind and Semkow conduct Rimsky-Korsakov and Smetana

Podcast: Bruckner's Symphonies. All Versions. Part 4.

Podcast: Bruckner's Symphonies. All Versions. Part 3.

Podcast: Bruckner's Symphonies. All Versions. Part 2.

Podcast: Bruckner’s Symphonies. All Versions. Part 1.

Podcast: Manual overdrive. American organ concertos.

Podcast: Janna Gandelman: a recital of Catalan violin works

Podcast: Fischer hallmarks Haydn: the effect, not the sound.

Podcast: Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 3 String Quartets.

Podcast: Margaret Brouwer. Orchestral colour, imagery and emotional power.

Podcast: The Music of Brazil. Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (1897–1948)

Podcast: Smetana, Susskind & St Louis. An Elite Recording.

Podcast: Paul Chihara's complete piano works. Quynh Nguyen's complete absorption

Podcast: Lukas Foss. A composer on the podium.

Podcast: Gerald Peregrine. A truly mobile music machine.

Podcast: Plucked and perfectly prepped. Alon Sariel’s Bach transcriptions for mandolin.

Podcast: Alsop + Adams + The Groove

Podcast: Standing with Eagles. The music of Louis Wayne Ballard.

Podcast: Rameau meets the accordion.

Podcast: Breathing new life into Orfeo Vecchi's motets for six voices.

Podcast: Florence Price. Leo Sowerby. Avalon String Quartet.

Podcast: Bach-Rheinberger • The Goldberg Variations

Podcast: Peter Boyer's Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue.

Podcast: Abbey Simon plays Chopin

Podcast: Billy Arcila. A guitarist's autobiography in sound.

Podcast: Haydn’s baryton trios. Refined rarities. Perfect performances.

Podcast: Godowsky’s Complete Piano Works · Konstantin Scherbakov concludes his masterly edition.

Podcast: VOX • 3. Stanisław Skrowaczewski and the Minnesota Orchestra

Podcast: Music of Brazil • Villa-Lobos • Works for Cello and Orchestra

Podcast: United at Last. 2 Operas by James P Johnson.

Podcast: VOX • 2. The legacy of Maurice Abravanel.

Podcast: JoAnn Falletta, the Buffalo Philharmonic and music by Zoltán Kodály

Podcast: Jennifer Higdon. 2 Spectacular Concertos • 1 Sizzling Recording

Podcast: VOX: Restoring a unique voice.

Podcast: Claudio Santoro: Orchestral Explorations of the 1960s

Podcast: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. A Polymath in Paris.

Podcast: John Corigliano Jnr's complete works for solo piano.

Podcast: Jonathan Leshnoff. Recent orchestral works.

Podcast: One genius through the eyes of another

Podcast: JoAnn Falletta introduces Walton’s complete Façades

Podcast: The Kernis Kaleidoscope

Podcast: Bolcom, Byron, Lorca – rich colours, dramatic swings

Podcast: Jean Sibelius – a journey beyond the symphonies

Podcast: Simply unmissable

Podcast: A fascination with sound – Ravel’s spellbinding works for the stage.

Podcast: Weinberg’s comprehensive keyboard catalogue

Podcast: A forgotten treasure. Marin Alsop discusses Hindemith.

Podcast: Paired to perfection. Tianwa Yang plays Prokofiev’s violin concertos.

Podcast: A centenary special – Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Complete Symphonies and Dances

Podcast: Mapping a musical monument. Giltburg’s Beethoven 32.

Podcast: Versatilité sans frontières. Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint–Georges (1745–1799).

Podcast: The string quartets of Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941).

Podcast: Jazz idioms, classical structures. Symphonic works by Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020).

Podcast: Music of Brazil. The Villa-Lobos violin sonatas.

Podcast: Camille Saint-Saëns. A symphonic collection.

Podcast: The Power of Tower

Podcast: Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824). Piano sonata premieres.

Podcast: Liszt’s musical makeovers.

Podcast: Dancing elegance, melodic flow. Overtures by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.

Podcast: Introducing guitarist Mabel Millán. From lyrical beauty to dramatic virtuosity.

Podcast: Music networking on the Inca Trails.

Podcast: Archivo de Guatemala. Where indigenous styles meet courtly life.

Podcast: Colour-contrast-surprise. The symphonies of John Abraham Fisher (1744–1806)

Podcast: Piano music by Aram Il’yich Khachaturian (1903–1978), ‘mouthpiece of the entire Soviet Orient’.

Podcast: Villa-Lobos and the art of choral transcription.

Podcast: Orchestral works by Žibouklé Martinaityté – a textural magician.

Podcast: Hit and bliss. Dame Evelyn Glennie performs mallet percussion concertos.

Podcast: The art and craft of John Adams.

Podcast: Bruckner’s Latin motets. Devotions of distinction.

Podcast: Vítezslav Novák. Orchestral Works Vol. 1.

Podcast: Bernard Herrmann in the round

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