The waltz was perhaps the most important thing that the rather level-headed and conservative Johannes Brahms from Hamburg brought back with him from his sojourn in Vienna. In addition to his purely instrumental waltzes for the piano, he also composed the ""Liebeslieder Waltzes"" - uniquely folk like and highly original vocal joyfulness in ¾ time. The lyrics are taken from real life and tell of love, longing, desire, and suffering but also of anger and derision. Just how ideally this music fits in with the workshop atmosphere of the Marlboro Summer Music Festival is fully evident here. The musicians gathered around Rudolf Serkin sing the very finest Brahms - joyous, inspired yet completely relaxed - and reflect light upon all aspects of earthly existence. An excellent choice to complement these emotions is Schubert's penultimate composition ""The Shepherd On The Rock"" D 965. This great and far-too-seldom performed lied is based on three poems, which are performed impressively and with brilliant musicality by the soloist Benita Valente. And last but not least, the addition of the clarinet, which functions both as a soloist as well as imitating the voice, lends the work it's particular charm.
Tracklist:
Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 (I-XII)
Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 (Xiii-XVIII)
The Shepherd on the Rock, Op. 129
UPC: 4260019714947Label: Speakers CornerRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Few orchestral pieces demand precision engineering as much as Richard Strauss's 'An Alpine Symphony.' The Decca recording by Sir Georg Solti and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra was made in 1979, one of the last Decca analog productions before the switch to digital. Solti knew Strauss personally and studied the composer's own recording before taping this uniquely authentic performance in Munich. Recorded by Decca at the Herkulessaal, Munich, in September 1979, the original 1/4-inch, two-track stereo tapes have been mastered by Rainer Maillard and cut by Sidney C. Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios. Pressed on 180g vinyl in gatefold jacket. Decca Pure Analogue Series is limited and numbered. UPC: 028948716043Label: DeccaRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
From the spirited wit of the Viennese stage to the quiet sanctuary of his most private sonatas, this collection captures the multifaceted genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Journey through the vibrant energy of The Marriage of Figaro, the ethereal dialogue of the Flute and Harp Concerto, and the heartbreaking solemnity of his final Requiem. Whether it is the playful charm of Papageno's aria or the sublime tranquility of the Piano Concerto No. 23, each track has been carefully curated to showcase a legacy that remains as vivid today as it was over two centuries ago. UPC: 0827568006684Label: Warner ClassicsRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Travis Laplante, the composer, improviser, and saxophonist who leads the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet Battle Trance, as well as Subtle Degrees, his duo with drummer Gerald Cleaver, and is known for his "meticulously plotted long-form pieces" (Bandcamp Daily), releases String Quartets via New Amsterdam Records. String Quartets is performed beautifully by JACK Quartet, whose "stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music's indispensable ensembles" (New York Times).
Tracklist:
String Quartet I
String Quartet II
UPC: 4062548117493Label: New Amsterdam RecsRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: Vinyl
What happens when the illustrious brass sections of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic come together? The answer: The Philharmonic Brass. Making it's debut in Vienna's Musikverein in April 2023 the group will come together for recording, tours and education work. Comprising some of the best-known faces in the brass world from Berlin, Vienna and their friends, the group includes Sarah Willis, horn, Matthias Hofs, trumpet, or Paul Halwax, tuba. In February 2025, a new chapter began with the release of their first album on Supreme Classics: Italiana! Conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti includes virtuoso arrangements of some of the best-known music including Verdi's Sinfonia di Nabucco, Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Overture and many more. We can now look forward to the ensemble's very first vinyl release and this exceptional album in an audiophile pressing by the renowned record manufacturer Pallas. UPC: 4028098001118Label: Supreme ClassicsRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
The LP version: When Baroque Meets Folk EnergyIn 'folk baroque', the music of Georg Philipp Telemann encounters the vibrant dance traditions of central Europe. The program grew out of a collaboration between recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf and the Italian ensemble filoBarocco during the Gottingen International Handel Festival, initiated within the European support programme EEEMERGING+.At the heart of the project lies the fascinating Rostock Manuscript, a historical source long associated with Telemann's fascination with Central European folk traditions. For Bosgraaf and filoBarocco, the manuscript offers the perfect point of departure for exploring the meeting ground between Baroque repertoire and living folk music traditions. The ensemble shares a deep enthusiasm not only for historical performance practice but also for music that retains the energy, spontaneity, and expressive freedom of traditional dance music.Telemann himself was renowned for his openness to musical influences from across Europe. During his travels he encountered Polish and Hanna folk traditions that left a lasting impression on him. In his autobiographical writings, he vividly describes the impact of this music: it's rhythmic vitality, it's improvisatory spirit, and it's powerful melodic expression. These qualities fascinated him and found their way, sometimes subtly, sometimes quite directly, into his own compositions.Yet reconstructing the sound world of the eighteenth century presents a unique challenge. Unlike music from the twentieth or twenty-first centuries, there are no recordings to tell us exactly how this repertoire once sounded. Historically informed performance with this repertoire therefore requires re-composition. Musicians must piece together clues from written scores, historical treatises, instrument research, and contemporary descriptions.On the recording 'folk baroque' the musicians expand this process further by drawing inspiration from living folk traditions. Many rhythmic patterns, ornamentations, and expressive gestures that appear in Baroque music still survive today in Central European dance music. These traditions offer valuable insights into how such musical gestures might function in performance. The goal is not to recreate a supposedly 'authentic' past because that would be inherently impossible, but to create a musical interpretation that feels convincing, vibrant, and alive for modern listeners inspired by the timeless melodies of the Rostock Manuscript.For this reason, the program includes elements of improvisation and experimental playing techniques. While this approach may initially seem unusual in a Baroque context, it reflects the spirit of exploration that shaped the music of Telemann's own time. The musical notation in the Rostock Manuscript often provides only a framework rather than a fully fixed sound image. It invites performers to engage creatively with the material and rediscover it's inherent energy.The result is a concert experience that feels both historical and contemporary. The music is rooted in eighteenth-century sources, yet interpreted by musicians who are equally at home in the traditions of early music and in modern sonic experimentation.Ultimately, what connects this repertoire with today's audience is emotion. Instruments and styles may change over time, but the fundamental human passions expressed through music remain the same: joy, melancholy, longing, passion, and the irresistible urge to dance.When listeners begin to grasp the expressive language behind these works, the music suddenly feels remarkably immediate. It ceases to be merely a historical artefact and becomes a living experience, almost as if a sleeping frog had been awakened with a kiss UPC: 5063758701143Label: Brilliant ClassicsRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
Philip Glass is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. His work has been dubbed 'minimal music'. Glass himself prefers to describe himself as a composer of 'music with repetitive structures'.Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter. Six warm pieces in a succesfull attempt to create a more pop-oriented work. The Philip Glass ensemble performs with an amiably soft-edged minimalist sound, in an almost new-agey vein. Glass anticipated resistance toward the funding of his more expensive projects, so he created a more accessible, and marketable recording. And with success. More than 200K albums were sold in five years. The tracks "Rubric" and "Façades" both appeared in the 2008 documentary about Philippe Petit, Man on Wire. "Floe" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1989 Italian horror film The Church. "Opening" was featured in the American remake of the movie Breathless. Glassworks is available as a limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on translucent blue colored vinyl.
Tracklist:
SIDE A
Opening
Floe
Islands
SIDE B
Rubric
Facades
Closing
UPC: 8719262045750Label: Classical Music OnRelease Date: 7.31.26Format: Vinyl
This 1958 3-track recording has Heifetz teamed up with Munch and the Boston Symphony. Cutting the lacquer directly from the original session master tapes has increased the transparency and 3-dimensional imaging on this reissue over original pressings. The performance, as always with the last century's top violinist, is almost without compare. If you have an original copy (white or shaded) you'll be shocked - this reissue has diaphonously beautiful string tone, superior low end dynamics and very deep bass. Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original master tape, cut at 45 RPM and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings - makers of the world's finest-sounding vinyl LPs. No other editions match these for the quietest 180-gram platters available. Each reissue in the RCA Living Stereo 45 RPM Series also includes a special 2-panel insert. RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound! Part of the Analogue Productions RCA Living Stereo 45 RPM Series! Remastered from the original master tape and cut at 45 RPM by Bernie Grundman Includes 2-panel insert 180-gram vinyl 45 RPM double LP pressed at Quality Record Pressings UPC: 753088231476Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 6.26.26Format: Vinyl
The Will of Tongues is the new studio album by Sarah Davachi, and it is certainly her most ambitious to date, spanning over two hours, available as a triple vinyl set, or double compact disc in hardback book style packaging. The album features five new works for historical pipe organs, three choral pieces, a suite of "interludes" for various microtonal ensembles, and a longform chamber piece for strings, organ, and tape. In addition to Davachi performing on organ, the album also features an incredible group of musicians from across the US and Europe, including Whitney Johnson (viola), Eyvind Kang (viola), Lucy Railton (cello), Diapason (an experimental brass ensemble from Los Angeles), Phaedrus (a Renaissance flute consort from Switzerland), and Chamber Choir Ireland. The album engages several different compositional methods and concepts, all rooted in the minimalist tradition from which Davachi primarily operates, but underscoring The Will of Tongues as a combined body of work is a deep reverence for the act of listening. This collection of music is not easy listening, and it's not meant to be - when long durations and a reduction of materials are at play, the ear and mind are forced to confront sound itself and the significant mental spaces that it continually gives rise to. The Will of Tongues is thus a celebration of iterative listening and of extreme confrontation, of intimate aural experience and it's vast psychic horizons.
Tracklist:
Interlude I: Polyphonic, for Strings
Canto Duo
Songs of the Smile's Fig: I. Hours
Interlude V: Harmonic, for Woodwinds
The Second Tuning
The Rose Dialogues, Part I
The Rose Dialogues, Part II
Songs of the Smile's Fig: II. Salts
Four Narrow Forms
Interlude II: Unison, for Brass
The First Tuning
Songs of the Smile's Fig: III. Follies
Canto Solo
UPC: 5056818808319Label: Late MusicRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: Vinyl
In this second volume of the ASM Forte Forward series, Anne-Sophie Mutter performs works by two composers close to her heart. First, Andre Previn (1929-2019), to whom the violinist was married for several years, and with whom she remained close friends until his death. A jazz pianist, conductor and composer, the multifaceted talents of this great musician opened up new musical worlds for her. Here she presents his Piano Trio (2009), as well as his Violin Concerto No. 2, composed in 2010 for solo violin, string orchestra and harpsichord, a nod to Baroque music and to an instrument that is unusual in contemporary music ensembles. Another instrument featured outside of it's normal context is the double bass: Anne-Sophie Mutter asked Sebastian Currier to write a duo for her and double bassist Roman Patkolo, one of the scholarship recipients of her foundation. For this commission Currier wrote Ringtone Variations: "I wanted to work with material that is very simple and familiar to everyone", says Currier. "This is the only piece where, if a phone went off in the audience, suddenly you have a new variation!" UPC: 3701624512555Label: AlphaRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Strokur
Frá
Birting
Heyr Himnasmidur
Bær
Heima
I hring
Rennur Upp
Til baka
LÃdur
Torrek
_oka
UPC: 028948685912Label: Deutsche GrammophonRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: Vinyl
Tracklist:
Light
Floods
Casting
Shadowed
Self
Growth
In Gray
My
Reflection
Earbrace
You
UPC: 028948685950Label: Deutsche GrammophonRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: Vinyl
Stephen Layton and his Trinity College Choir forces bring their superabundant talents to bear on the 'B Minor Mass'. The results - as only to be expected from this team - are wonderfully good.
Tracklist:
Kyrie Eleison
Christe Eleison
Kyrie Eleison
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Et in Terra Pax Hominibus
Laudamus Te
Gratias Agimus Tibi
Domine Deus
: Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
Qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patris
Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus
Cum Sancto Spiritu
Credo in Unum Deum
Patrem Omnipotentem
Et in Unum Dominum
Et Incarnatus Est
Crucifixus Etiam Pro Nobis
Et Resurrexit Tertia Die
Et in Spiritum Sanctum
Confiteor Unum Baptisma
Et Exspecto Resurrectionem
Sanctus
Osanna in Excelsis
Benedictus
Osanna in Excelsis
Agnus Dei
Dona Nobis Pacem
UPC: 034571995656Label: HyperionRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
"A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess" (The New York Times), pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivalled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries - in concert and on recordings - earning his place as a true icon of the piano. In 2023, the label released Hamelin's recording of Faure's Nocturnes & Barcarolles plus the four-hand Dolly suite, played with his wife Cathy Fuller. In 2022, Hyperion released a double album of C.P.E. Bach's Sonatas & Rondos, which received wide critical acclaim and chart success. Featuring nine original pieces, Hamelin's 2024 album, New Piano Works, is a survey of some of his own recent works, exhibiting his formidable skill as a composer-pianist whose music imaginatively taps into his musical forebears. Pressed on 180g vinyl. UPC: 034571995700Label: HyperionRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: Vinyl
Violinist Miranda Cuckson has achieved an international reputation as a leading champion of contemporary music and living composers in a remarkably wide range of styles. Known for her organic expressivity, dexterous virtuosity, musical insight, brilliant programming, and love for music, she is acclaimed internationally as a soloist and collaborator. In addition to frequent performances throughout the United States and high-profile appearances in Vienna, Berlin, and other European cultural centers, she has gained an international fan base through her many recordings for Urlicht AudioVisual, ECM Records, and Centaur.In her eponymous first release on vinyl, Miranda plays a new work written for her by a rising star among composers, Stewart Goodyear. "Solo: A Suite for Solo Violin" is an engaging and accessible work that incorporates traditional classical forms with elements of jazz and music that draws on the sounds of his Trinidadian roots.The other side of the LP contains two twentieth century avant-garde masterpieces: "Mikka S" by composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, a challenging virtuoso work incorporating microtonal glissandi and a range of sonorities that push the technical limits of the instrument, and Franco Donatoni's "Argot", which fuses minimalism, mutation, and gestures that conjure the many influences that shaped him, from folk music to the music of John Cage and Pierre Boulez.Drawn from ultra high definition digital sources and prepared for mastering by Urlicht AudioVisual's Gene Gaudette, Miranda's first LP is being issued in a Direct Metal Mastered, audiophile-quality 180 gram limited edition pressing.
Tracklist:
Solo: A Suite for Solo Violin (Goodyear) - Waltz
Chant
Prelude
Dance
Elegy
Mikka S (Xenakis)
Argot I (Donatoni)
Argot II (Donatoni)
UPC: 766234848039Label: Urlicht AudiovisualRelease Date: 6.21.24Format: Vinyl
Stunning performances of Heifetz showpieces with Sir Malcolm Sargent and the New Symphony Orchestra of London. Recorded in May 1962 by Kenneth Wilkinson and the Decca Recording team at Walthamstow Hall. This is a must have for all audiophiles! Mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original 2-track master tape, cut at 45 RPM and plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings - makers of the world's finest-sounding vinyl LPs, - no other editions match these for the quietest 180-gram platters available. Each reissue in the RCA Living Stereo 45 RPM Series also includes a special 2-panel insert.RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound!Part of the Analogue Productions RCA Living Stereo 45 RPM Series!Remastered from the original master tape and cut at 45 RPM by Bernie GrundmanIncludes 2-panel insert180-gram vinyl 45 RPM double LP pressed at Quality Record Pressings UPC: 753088260377Label: Analogue Prod.Release Date: 5.22.26Format: Vinyl
This Signum Classics release presents four orchestral works by leading Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye, performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dane Lam. Recorded in February 2024 at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, the album features The Backyard of the Village alongside two concertante works: The Memories of Mount Jing Gang with violist Diyang Mei, and My Faraway Nanjing with cellist Guy Johnston, plus the overture The Loquat in Five Colors. Ye's music blends contemporary orchestral writing with Chinese history, landscape, and cultural memory, reflecting his distinctive international voice. UPC: 635212097236Label: Signum ClassicsRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: Vinyl
The transcendental guitar master's 1971 debut, remastered for all The transcendental guitar master's 1971 debut, remastered for all your sabbath needs. 37 minutes of ambient guitar witchcraft and your sabbath needs. 37 minutes of ambient guitar witchcraft and the perfect soundtrack for third eye awakening, light alchemy, or the perfect soundtrack for third eye awakening, light alchemy, or human sacrifice. You could start a cult with this thing. California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostics News. On offer: Burchette's seven- part, block-printed "Psychic Meditation Course," designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold a series of instrumental guitar and electronic records featuring ornate hand-drawn cover designs, complete with listening instructions from the Master himself. Since just his twelfth year, Burchette had been transfixed by the parapsychological, spending as much time reading books on Tibetan mysticism fundamentals as he did practicing guitar, the vibrations of which he used to create tonal pictures and patterns. After time spent teaching classical guitar, Master Wilburn Burchette released seven albums in the seven years spanning 1971 through 1977, before abruptly burning and discarding everything related to his musical explorations.
Tracklist:
Summons to the Sacrificial Feast
Arise
The Lords Small Fight
Awaking the Third Eye
Triumphed Gloriously
Witches' Sabbath
Dance of the Zodiac
The Enlightened One
Lo!
10
The Alchemist's Death
UPC: 825764124713Label: NumeroRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: Vinyl
Acclaimed composer and pianist Poppy Ackroyd returns with ‘Liminal’, her intimate new album released June 19th via One Little Independent Records. Written and recorded during a period of profound upheaval and transition, it marks a return to the core of Ackroyd’s practice, bringing piano and violin back together. ‘Continuum’ develops through gradual layering, with interlocking piano motifs and sustained violin tones creating a feeling of forward momentum. The music breathes and expands, drawing attention to small changes in texture and dynamics. UPC: 5016958110338Label: One Little IndependentRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
Ignore the "2" in the title; this is Morton Feldman's 1959 debut album, which by definition means it's a key release in the history of modern classical music. Feldman's association with the New York abstract art scene of the time is made explicit with the cover art by Philip Guston, but it's the music, with it's minimalism and emphasis on tonal color, that most clearly expresses the ethos of his visual artist peers. Perhaps the biggest influence, however-though it's hard to say exactly who influenced whom-is John Cage, whose experiments with chance methods of composition and performance echo in Feldman's graphic notation, which left choices of rhythm and pitch to the performers of his "Projections" and "Intersections" pieces. This release represents the first reissue of this landmark record (a later release, The Early Years, discarded the Guston album art and reshuffled the sequence), and to ensure the truest and clearest listening experience possible, we're pressing New Directions in Music 2 on black vinyl at Gotta Groove Records. If you're at all into, or even curious about modern classical, this is one you have to own.
Tracklist:
Extensions 1 for Violin and Piano
Structures for String Quartet
Projection 4 for Violin and Piano
Extension 4 for Three Pianos
Intersection 3 for Piano
Two Pieces for Two Pianos
Three Pieces for String Quartet
Piece for Four Pianos
UPC: 848064021438Label: Real Gone MusicRelease Date: 7.3.26Format: Vinyl
Recorded between the iconic Abbey Road and Polish Radio studios, Hania Rani's original music for Joachim Trier's Cannes and Golden Globe winning, Oscar and Bafta nominated 'Sentimental Value' is a deeply intuitive collaboration, composed before a single frame was edited. Intriguingly Hania worked on the score for Sentimental Value without an edit in hand; instead, she was given a carefully written script and the freedom of her own substantial imagination. The story told in the film oscillates around three characters and the motionless presence of the house, yet the relationships between all these personalities are not fixed, but in progress. Those subtle qualities were at the centre of her attention and became the core topic of numerous discussions with Joachim about the music, the film, and the philosophy behind Sentimental Value. In September 2024, Hania went to Oslo and spent a couple of days in the main film location (the family home in Oslo) with her sound engineer, Agata Dankowska. The film crew was away in France to shoot another scene for the project, so they were allowed to freely explore the space - both visually and sonically. They made field recordings in the building, capturing the sounds of objects and furniture found in the apartment, and they also managed to record a couple of piano pieces. The house plays a significant role in the story, silently witnessing the tangled trajectories of it's residents.
Tracklist:
Sentimental Value [04:47]
The House [02:49]
Childlike [02:39]
Lighter and Lighter [01:56]
Riksarkivet [03:17]
Agnes [03:15]
Rachel [05:35]
Speaking to the Past [02:19]
Gustav [06:57]
Nora [04:50]
UPC: 4062548134612Label: Gondwana RecordsRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
Recorded between the iconic Abbey Road and Polish Radio studios, Hania Rani's original music for Joachim Trier's Cannes and Golden Globe winning, Oscar and Bafta nominated 'Sentimental Value' is a deeply intuitive collaboration, composed before a single frame was edited.
Tracklist:
Sentimental Value
The House
Childlike
Lighter and Lighter
Riksarkivet
Agnes
Rachel
Speaking to the Past
Gustav
Nora
UPC: 4062548136494Label: Gondwana RecordsRelease Date: 6.19.26Format: Vinyl
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