In her latest album, celebrated violinist and composer Esther Abrami presents her own large-scale work, a nine-part suite for violin and orchestra exploring love in all its forms. The Amour Suite captures the full spectrum of emotions, from tenderness and passion to longing and heartbreak, and is the centerpiece of a program that blends original music with new arrangements of …

Luise Adolpha Le Beau remained undeterred by the headwinds of the male-dominated world of classical composers. Born in Rastatt, Baden, as the only child of an officer with a passion for the arts and his wife who was no less artistically inclined, Le Beau benefited from a music education from an early age. She was later studied privately with Joseph …

New Zealand-born American violinist Geneva Lewis is the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, has been Musical America’s New Artist of the Month, and was a BBC New Generation Artist in 2022–24.  Her solo debut album features a high-flying all-American program, accompanied by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Gemma New. Starting with Samuel Barber’s neo-Romantic Violin …

Rumon Gamba and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present an album of works by Sir Granville Bantock, featuring his Hebridean Symphony, Prelude to The Bacchae of Euripides, and English Scenes. Born into a wealthy family in central London in 1868, Granville Bantock studied music at both Trinity College and at the Royal Academy of Music. Early conducting engagements took him …

The debut album from violinist Himari features Henryk Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, recorded live (when the violinist was 13 years old) with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sebastian Weigle during her debut performances with the orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie in March 2025. Debut brings together music that has shaped Himari’s musical journey and reflects the repertoire she feels …

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) was one of the 17th century’s most unconventional and extraordinary figures. Crowned at the age of six, she then abdicated when she was 28 and travelled from Stockholm to Rome, where she became a celebrated patron of the arts. Her passion for music helped shape Rome into a cultural capital, where she fostered talents such …

2026 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Manuel de Falla, arguably Spain’s greatest composer. He has been described by biographer Burnett James as “the most complete representative of the Spanish mind and spirit in music.” Spain for centuries stood apart from Western classical music and produced relatively few composers of stature until the late 19th century. The great …

Cellist Camille Thomas celebrates Philip Glass’s upcoming 90th birthday with a deeply personal project. It began with a unique exchange: impressed by her recordings, Philip Glass shared with her the scores of his two cello concertos, sparking the idea for this album. Thomas brings fresh attention to these rarely performed works, from the raw, lyrical power of the First Concerto …

Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine is a landmark work of the early Baroque, sitting at the crossroads of Renaissance polyphony and the novel use of basso continuo heard in his first opera, L’Orfeo. The “1610 Vespers” redefined what sacred music could sound like — emotionally immediate, virtuosic, both looking back to the past and driving forward into the future. Monteverdi …

In advance of the Metropolitan Opera’s season opening with Lise Davidsen starring as Verdi’s Lady Macbeth, Decca Classics presents the star soprano’s new album of Verdi arias. Recorded with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the album marks the Norwegian soprano’s first recording devoted entirely to Verdi, bringing together scenes from five of the composer’s greatest operas: Macbeth, Un …

Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra complete their Brahms symphony cycle with this landmark recording of the first two symphonies. Recorded in concert, Nagano brings unrivalled authority to this music having won the prestigious 2024 Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. With this new album, Nagano crowns his decade leading the orchestra in Hamburg where was principal conductor …

Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields — where he is about to embark on his fifteenth season as Music Director — in Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with a new cadenza by Bell. The Grammy Award-winner and honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to Music …

Eldbjørg Hemsing and Oslo Philharmonic under the direction of Gergely Madaras present Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. The recording reflects Hemsing’s long-standing engagement with one of the major works of the Romantic violin repertoire. She first performed the concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic as a child; now she considers her interpretation ready to be …

Violinist Midori and the chamber orchestra A Far Cry present Derek Bermel’s violin concerto Spring Cadenzas. The concerto was commissioned by Midori during the pandemic for her Orchestra Residencies Program to bring young musicians together despite the challenges of remote performance. What emerged is a vivid and deeply personal concerto built around a sequence of interconnected cadenzas, with the solo violin …

María Dueñas pays tribute to Jascha Heifetz, whose recordings have shaped the Spanish violinist since childhood. The album pairs – as Heifetz once did – Korngold’s Violin Concerto with Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, and was recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The program also features Debussy’s La fille aux cheveux …

Cellist Julian Schwarz presents the complete cello works of Arthur Foote including the world premiere commercial recording of the Cello Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33 performed with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The recording represents the culmination of a remarkable father-and-son effort to bring Foote’s concerto back to life. Julian Schwarz first discovered a listing for the …

Anne-Sophie Mutter presents works by two composers close to her heart: André Previn (1929–2019) and Sebastian Currier (b.1959). Mutter was married to Previn for several years and remained close friends until his death. As a jazz pianist, conductor, and composer, Previn was a great and multifaceted talent who opened new musical worlds for her. The program features his Piano Trio …

Canadian-American cellist Elinor Frey performs and conducts Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s three cello concertos with the Accademia de’ Dissonanti. These dramatic works, rich in turbulent exchanges yet also in tender moments, bear witness to CPE Bach’s fiery imagination, where emotion and melody take precedence. In Bach’s time, personalizing a performance was both common and expected. The question of “how a …

As an admirer of Luigi Cherubini, an attentive follower of Gaspare Spontini’s dramatic daring, and a critical but deeply fascinated witness of Gioachino Rossini’s public success, Beethoven was shaping his language in a musical landscape in which the symphony was in constant dialogue with the opera. This fertile state of tension has been newly uncovered by Enrico Onofri and the …

Tucson, Arizona-based True Concord Voices and Orchestra present two works by the pioneering American composer Jocelyn Hagen. Based in Minnesota, Hagen composes primarily for voice — solo, chamber and choral — and has explored large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, and opera. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci has been performed more than 50 times around the world since 2019, …

The Oulu Sinfonia led by Rumon Gamba explore music by Selim Palmgren, Einar Englund, Kalervo Tuukkanen, and Jean Sibelius in this survey of under-preformed Finnish music focusing on works composed for the stage and screen. Scenes From Finland is the third instalment in a trilogy exploring the richness and diversity of Finnish symphonic music, placing lesser-known masterpieces by contemporaries of …

With this album, the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum and its artistic director Reinhard Goebel launch a new series offering a vivid glimpse into Leipzig’s rich musical life at the beginning of the eighteenth century. At the time, the city was home to numerous Collegia Musica – academic ensembles dedicated to the performance of the latest vocal and instrumental works – …

Continuing in its aim to fill overlooked niches in the recorded classical repertory, the CPO record label presents three symphonies by Paul Wranitzky performed by the Munich Radio Orchestra under the direction of Howard Griffiths. Born in 1756 in Neureisch, Moravia, Paul Wranitzky was almost exactly eleven months younger than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whom he survived by seventeen years. Unlike …

Japanese composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with celebrated harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, in a major world premiere recording that pairs his Symphony No. 3, “Metaphysica” with his new harp concerto. The virtuosic, genre-defying concerto received its world premiere in 2024 performed by Ceysson and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the composer’s direction. Drawing on his decades …

The program America in Weimar: On the Margins was part of Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, a citywide festival in 2024 exploring the thriving creative period in Germany between World War I and World War II. Led by conductor and pianist Rei Hotoda, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) present a recording of that program …