“The opera’s symphonic quality is emphasized to the max by conductor Lawrence Foster. Much of the orchestral playing, flatteringly recorded, is voluptuous – shimmeringly beautiful at Butterfly’s entrance, in the
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January 21, 2022
Digital Release: Mozart: Violin Concertos
PENTATONE releases a digital album Mozart: Violin Concertos performed by Arabella Steinbacher, a multiple award-winner, accompanied by the esteemed players of...
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January 21, 2022
Francisco Coll Violin Concerto – Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, and Gustavo Gimeno Awarded at the 2022 ICMA Awards
We are proud to announce that at this year’s 2022 International Classic Music Awards Francisco Coll, winner of the ICMA 2019 Composer Award, has been awarded...
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January 20, 2022
Time Traveler’s Suite from Inon Barnatan selected as an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone Magazine
“Barnatan is palpably in his element, with a real clarity to his thinking and a whole range of colours and shadings from the most delicate pianissimos to...
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January 18, 2022
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses from Saskia Giorgini selected as Instrumental Choice by BBC Music Magazine
“Some rhetorical declamatory passages really need live performance to pull off their theatricality, but Giorgini enlivens then with both high drama and...
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January 14, 2022
Digital Release: Bellido – Aurora & Ad Astra
PENTATONE releases a digital-only album Jimmy López Bellido: Aurora & Ad Astra performed by violinist Leticia Moreno, Houston Symphony and conducted by...
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December 16, 2021
Beethoven Fidelio Selected as Classica’s Choc de Classica
Beethoven Fidelio from Marek Janowski, Lise Davidsen, Christian Elsner, Georg Zeppenfeld, Günther Groissböck, Cornel Frey, Christina Landshamer,...
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December 15, 2021
Mozart Symphonies 38 & 39 Receives 5-Star Review from BBC Music Magazine
“This is up there with the best played, and the best recorded” Mozart: Symphonies 38 & 39 from Andrew Manze and NDR Radiophilharmonie received...
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December 10, 2021
‘how do I find you’, A Collection of Words and Music created in 2020
PENTATONE will release how do I find you, a collection of words and music created in 2020, portraying the gamut of human experiences during the ongoing...
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December 09, 2021
Handel’s Unsung Heroes named the Record of the Month by BBC Music Magazine
“This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking, and erudition, it towers above its predecessors. It also benefits...
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December 09, 2021
Il delirio della passione awarded the Clef d’or by ResMusica
We are proud to announce that our recording of Il delirio della passione with Anna Lucia Richter, the Ensemble Claudiana and Luca Pianca has been awarded a...
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November 29, 2021
Pelléas et Mélisande named Presto Music’s Recording of the Week
“…A brilliantly-conceived and executed project all round…” Pelléas et Mélisande from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by...
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November 24, 2021
The 64th Grammy Awards nominations are revealed!
We are proud to announce that our release of Unexpected Shadows is nominated for the 64th Grammy Awards which will be held in January 2022. Unexpected...
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