Classical

The Danish String Quartet’s new album is a “retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and England.” It

In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s, Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collabor

Joe Hisaishi In Vienna presents two world premiere recordings from the world-famous composer and conductor: his Symphony No. 2, captured live at the Musikverein with the Wiener Symphoniker, and Viola Saga, featuring soloist Antoine Tamestit.

Keith Jarrett’s account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Württemberg Sonatas is a revelation. “I’d heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was room for a piano version,” says Jarrett today. This outstanding recording, made in 1994 and pr

Kronos Quartet's award-winning 1990 album, Black Angels, gets its first-ever U.S. vinyl release in celebration of the group's 50th anniversary. The two-LP set includes George Crumb's title piece, which inspired David Harrington to found the quartet, and w

Roger Eno’s second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon invites listeners to reflect on the nature of sound and silence. The Skies, They Shift Like Chords… contains a dozen tracks that express nostalgia for something lost while projecting a sense of somethi

A new longform commissioned work for any ensemble of four similar instruments. The definitive string quartet version of 'Long Gradus' is available as a 2LP and CD, and the collection of all four arrangements (strings, woodwinds, brass & organ, choir & ele

Nonesuch releases Kronos Quartet’s acclaimed album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glasson vinyl for the first time on November 3, 2023, to coincide with Kronos Quartet: Five Decades, a year-long celebration marking the quartet’s 50th anniversary. Original

Five years after winning the Polaris Music Prize with his ground-breaking debut, Jeremy Dutcher has returned with a radiant exploration of contemporary Indigeneity and his place within it. "Motewolonuwok" extends beyond anything the musician has made befo

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa is the debut album by Canadian composer and tenor, Jeremy Dutcher – which involves post-classical rearrangement of his Wolastoq First Nation traditional music. Granted access to the Canadian Museum of History, Jeremy discovered

A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it ope

First volume of solo piano compositions by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, finally back in print.

Born to an aristocratic family in Addis Ababa in December of 1923, Emahoy spent much of her youth and young adulthood studying classical music in Europe. She r

Between 1988 and 2010, Steve Reich composed three string quartets – Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11. Deutsche Grammophon now presents this trilogy of works for the first time on one album, in definitive new recordings from the Mivos Quartet.

Following the 2019 soundtrack release of Matthias & Maxime, Mercury KX deliver Jean-Michel Blais's new LP Aubades. The new album from the Montreal-based icon of modern-classical music shows a new side to the artist. The album features some of his best pia

In essence, the sound of the piano comes in two parts: its attack and its decay. The striking of a hammer is followed by the resonance of a string or strings. Much the same might be said about the vibraphone, as it happens. This dual quality of sound come