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YO-YO MA / STUART DUNCAN / EDGAR MEYER / CHRIS THILE
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Stuart Duncan (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo - an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster |
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BACH / MEYER / SAINT-SAENS / MORRICONE / VIVALDI / TAN DUN / etc
The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (Gold Series) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) with various guests & accompaniments [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "Discs with snippets like this have to be taken for what they are: appetizers for further exploration or just agreeable easy listening. What is never in doubt is the high quality of the playing and recording." (MusicWeb) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Pierre Boulez conducts Berlioz (Incls 'Symphonie fantastique & Les Nuits d'ete) Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) Stuart Burrows (tenor) / New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Pierre Boulez [ Sony Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] Sony Classical is now making available all of their Berlioz recordings conducted by Pierre Boulez. All at a very attractive price. The recordings have all been remastered and remixed, and the box set is available at budget price. |
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NICCOLO PAGANINI / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3 Zino Francescatti (violin) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos [ Sony Masteworks / CD - released 27/Jul/1991 ] "Saint-Saëns Third Violin Concertos with Zino Francescatti captured at the height of his powers, his tone rich and vibrant, his bowing virtually as fleet as Heifetz's." MusicWeb |
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Various Artists
Andy Warhol And Music [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] This is the first ever musical compilation dedicated to Andy Warhol. The compilation highlights the musical and artistic abundance of the 1960s/70s with leading artists like Lou Reed, Tina Turner, John Cale. Rarely has the existence and work of... |
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PURCELL / DEBUSSY / RESPIGHI / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SIBELIUS / etc
Sir John Barbirolli - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Nathan Milstein (violin) , Benny Goodman (clarinet), Robert Casadesus (piano), Nathan Milstein (violin) / New York Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli [ Sony Classical / RCA / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2007 ] The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini's successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner's first season was a triumph with both players and... |
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Greta Bradman
Forest of Dreams - Classical Lullabies to Get Lost In [ Sony Music Entertainment / CD - released 16/Aug/2010 ] Australian soprano, Greta Bradman presents a joyous ode to the sweet, gentle art form we know as the 'lullaby' - a musical expression that spans generations. |
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VILLA-LOBOS / SATIE / POULENC / FAURE / MIGNONE / etc
L'amour, la mort, la mer Patricia Petibon (soprano), Philippe Marchand (percussion), Susan Manoff (piano), David Venitucci (accordion), Ronan Le Bars (bagpipe) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Soprano Patricia Petibon traverses love, death, and the mysteries of the sea in songs that carry us from John Lennon to Fauré, via Granados, Barber, Satie, and Jean Cras, whose beautiful "La rencontre" sets the meditative tone. Petibon shapes her... |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: The Indian Queen (complete opera directed by Peter Sellars recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Julia Bullock, Vince Yi, Nadine Koutcher, Christophe Dumaux / Teodor Currentzis (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "punchy playing from Perm Opera's MusicAeterna orchestra under Teodor Currentzis...The Perm chorus...also field Purcell's sacred anthems with refreshing directness." (Gramophone) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites (3LP) Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / 3 LP - released 20/Sep/2023 ] 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 learned the first... |
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2Cellos
Dedicated [ Sony Classical / CD - released 17/Sep/2021 ] 2CELLOS invite their fans to celebrate their milestone tenth anniversary with them on the new album DEDICATED. "We're celebrating a decade of dedication to our projects, our music, and our fans," says Šulic. "Over the years, we grew up as 2CELLOS... |
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Aaron Zigman
Ost: Sex And The City 2 [ Sony Classical / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4 & 7 Academy of St Martin In The Fields, Joshua Bell [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "These are splendidly alert performances, responding to every nuance in the music, and they made me listen to Beethoven with fresh ears. Particularly impressive is the pianissimo playing Bell obtains from the orchestra...This recording is a real plea |
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Adrian Sutton
War Horse (Original Cast Recording) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 7/Nov/2011 ] |
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Alan Menken
Ost: Mirror Mirror [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers) Alan Titus (baritone) / The Norman Scribner Choir, The Berkshire Boy Choir, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] This is a remastered 2-CD edition, which includes a 140-page booklet created in collaboration with The Leonard Bernstein Office with numerous previously unreleased photos and facsimiles, synopsis and libretto, and new liner notes. |
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Alena Cherny
For You - The World's Best Lov [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 6/May/2013 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / KREISLER / LISZT
An die ferne Geliebte Alexander Krichel (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Alexander Krichel is a young Hamburg-based pianist who has recently gone through the round of international piano competitions. He' won first prize at the Steinway international piano competition. |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV / MIKHAIL GLINKA / NIKOLAI MEDTNER / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Forgotten Melodies: Glinka, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, Medtner Alexander Malofeev (piano) [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Hailed by Der Standard as "a world piano revolution," Malofeev turns to works by Glinka, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, and Medtner - four Russian composers whose music is deeply marked by nostalgia and the experience of exile. Centred around Medtner's... |
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Alexandre Desplat
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part 1 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 22/Nov/2010 ] |