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A Viennese Bouquet: Music for flute and piano

Melissa Farrow, Erin Helyard

Exquisite eloquence from Australia's foremost Baroque and Classical flute virtuoso, Melissa Farrow.

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For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel

Inspired by the Romantic storyteller E.T.A. Hoffmann’s eccentric alter ego, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is a work Hélène Grimaud has known since she was a teenager and has recorded once before…

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The Sound of Movies

Jonas Kaufmann, Czech National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Jochen Rieder

Great songs from classic movies have been a passion of Jonas Kaufmann throughout his life, and his new album celebrates that with almost a century of unforgettable movie songs that…

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Bach Generations

Albrecht Mayer, Berliner Barock Solisten

Star oboist Albrecht Mayer joins forces with the Berliner Barock Solisten in music by members of three generations of the uniquely talented Bach family

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Music for a New Century

New Century Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Hope

Featuring world premiere recordings of works by Tan Dun, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jake Heggie, as well as music by Philip Glass, Music for a New Century forms part of the…

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Classic 100: Your Favourite Instrument

Various artists

For more than 20 years, the Classic 100 has been one of the most anticipated events on the Australian classical music calendar. This year's theme is instruments, and the field…

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Lieder: Brahms, Schumann, Mahler

Renée Fleming, Hartmut Höll, Münchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann

4-time Grammy winner Renée Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album for almost two decades.

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Davidsharfen: Works for Two Harps

Mara Galassi, Flora Papadopoulos

Mara Galassi and her colleague Flora Papadopoulos present a hitherto unknown German repertoire with their harp duets, which they interpret on five different harp types of the German Baroque period.

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Liszt: Consolations

Saskia Giorgini

Consolations is Saskia Giorgini's second Liszt album, after her critically-acclaimed rendition of the composer's Harmonies poetiques et religieuses. Named after Liszt's six Consolations, the album also contains the Caprices-Valses, Valse…

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Mendelssohn: Choral Works

Leipzig Radio Choir, Philipp Ahmann

The pinnacle of German ninteenth-century religious music

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Handel: Water & Fire

B'Rock Orchestra, Dmitry Sinkovsky

Two contrasting and captivating open-air compositions

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El último aliento

Zsófia Boros

The focus of Zsófia Boros’s third recording for ECM’s New Series is split two-ways, with one spotlight turned towards contemporary compositions from Argentina and the other on the multiple-idioms spanning…

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Bernard Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights & Echoes for Strings

Keri Fuge, Roderick Williams, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Maria Venzago, Joshua Tan

Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film…

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Voyager: Music for Horn Ensemble

Munich Opera Horns

In 2023 the Bayerisches Staatsorchester is marking the five-hundredth anniversary of its formation with a series of releases by a number of its outstanding ensembles, all of which document the…

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Brad Mehldau: The Folly of Desire

Ian Bostridge, Brad Mehldau

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the…

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Berlin Stories: Mendelssohn, Juon, Skalkottas

Trio Gaspard

Berlin Stories is the first in a new series of recordings by Trio Gaspard, focused on different cultural capitals and composers associated with them.

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Shadow Dances: British Works for Flute

Adam Walker, Huw Watkins

For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins.

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Duello d’Archi a Venezia

Chouchane Siranossian, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon

“For this recording we have created an imaginary ‘battle of the bows’ between Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini and Locatelli, the ‘four musketeers’ of the violin in Venice during the first half…

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Broken Branches: Songs for voice and guitar

Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe

Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the…

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Pi – Pisendel

Concerto Köln, Mayumi Hirasaki

Mayumi Hirasaki and Concerto Köln present a diverse selection of Pisendel’s pieces that stand out through their rich orchestration, stylistic variety and instrumental virtuosity.

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Schubert: Symphonies – Unfinished & Great

Dresdner Philharmonie, Marek Janowski

Marek Janowski presents his first purely-orchestral Schubert recording, together with the Dresdner Philharmonie, performing the composer’s two final, groundbreaking and most famous symphonies.

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Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos

Kerson Leong, Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick Hahn

On his second album for Alpha Classics, rising star violinist Kerson Leong juxtaposes the Violin Concertos of Bruch and Benjamin Britten.

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Echoes

David Le Page, Orchestra of the Swan, Philip Sheppard

Completing their cycle of mixtape albums, Echoes is Orchestra of the Swan’s third album on Signum Classics.

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Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto & Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1

Esther Yoo, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko

Esther Yoo's latest studio album comes 6 years after her recording of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with Vladimir Ashkenzy and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

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Hush: Gratitudes

Slava Grigoryan

Slava Grigoryan reflects on gratitude in his new solo album - a collection of entrancing guitar compositions, commissioned by The Hush Foundation.

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Szymanowski: Mythes - Music for Violin and Piano

Sueye Park, Roland Pöntinen

Lush, impressionistic, exotic, erotically charged even, Karol Szymanowski’s music appears as a world in its own right, a refuge from the harshest aspects of reality, but also a place in…

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Love at Last

Lara Downes

Inspired by the poem Sachki, Sachki by the Odessa-born Jewish writer Shaul Tchernichovsky, Lara Downes presents 24 pieces, many of them in world premiere recordings, of works by living composers…

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Haydn: String Quartets Op. 42, 77 & Seven Last Words

The London Haydn Quartet

Haydn's 'Seven Last Words' - heard here in the composer's own arrangement for string quartet - is simply sublime, and a fitting testimonial to the composer's deep, enduring faith

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Australian Horn Trios

Quercus Trio

This exciting debut album from Melbourne-based Quercus Trio explores the rich vein of Australian chamber music written for the gorgeous combination of violin, French horn and piano.

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The American Project

Yuja Wang

Yuja Wang gives a dazzling solo performance in the world premiere recording of a major new work specially written for her by her friend Teddy Abrams.

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Breathing Space

Genevieve Lacey

Created by ARIA Award-winning composer and performer Genevieve Lacey, Breathing Space is an oasis of quiet reverberations, revealing the calls, tremulations and deep stirrings of Country.

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JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort – III

Phantasm, Laurence Dreyfus

This is the third and final instalment of the Well-Tempered Consort series (5 Diapasons, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice).

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Haydn: The Complete Piano Trios, Vol 2

Trio Gaspard

Described by Gramophone as ‘an album of joyous, imaginative music-making that whets the appetite for future instalments’, the first volume of Trio Gaspard’s Haydn cycle was enthusiastically received by buyers…

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Federico Mompou: Música callada

Stephen Hough

Música callada comprises twenty-eight exquisite miniatures, brief in duration yet rich in allusion: music which makes its mark with subtlety, understatement and a unique economy of means.

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Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar – Music for Strings

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

Following on from their 2021 album of English music for strings, John Wilson and his orchestra offer a spectacular selection of works by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Herbert Howells, and Delius.

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Women of Note: Celebrating Australian Composers, Volume 5

Various artists

This annual ABC Classic project recognises and celebrates the creativity and talent of Australia's female composers.

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Schumann & Brahms

Benjamin Grosvenor

The acclaimed British pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 30 and yet a well-established favourite of critics and audiences around the globe, takes Robert Schumann’s haunting Kreisleriana as his starting point…

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The Unreleased Masters

Jessye Norman

Decca Classics is proud to announce Jessye Norman – The Unreleased Masters, showcasing never-before-heard recordings of one of the greatest classical singers of all time.

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The Handel Project: Handel-Suites & Brahms-Variations

Seong-Jin Cho

The spectacular South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho steps back in time, presenting three of Handel’s exquisite suites. His album The Handel Project couples outstanding pieces by Handel from the early…

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Ostinato

Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria, Salzburg Lute Consort

In music, ‘ostinato’ (Latin obstinatus: ‘obstinate’) is a repeated sequence of notes. A constantly repeated bass motif is perfect for improvisation - which in turn inspired many Baroque composers to…

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JS Bach: Clavichord

András Schiff

An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.

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Schubert: Schwanengesang

Mark Padmore, Mitsuko Uchida

Two masterful Schubert interpreters, tenor Mark Padmore & pianist Mitsuko Uchida record Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Beethoven’s An Die Ferne Geliebte for the first time

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Steve Reich: The String Quartets

Mivos Quartet

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…

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To Listen, To Sing - Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers

Ensemble Offspring

Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers is an award-winning artist development program designed to build bridges for First Peoples musicians to step forward, further develop their composing skills, and connect with the…

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Walsingham

Rosemary Hodgson

Renowned Australian lutenist, Rosemary Hodgson’s Walsingham is an intricately constructed musical journey exploring themes of mysticism and pilgrimage.

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Mozart in Milan: Sacred Music around the Exsultate, jubilate

Robin Johannsen, Carlo Vistoli, Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri, Schola Gregoriana Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi

The splendour of Mozart’s motet Exsultate, jubilate stands out in a repertoire that has for too long remained in the shadows: the magnificent output of church music composed in 18th…

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Tom Henry: Light in Dark – Works for Solo Piano

Jennifer Enchelmaier

Light in Dark is a compendium of piano works by composer Tom Henry. There are a number of different stylistic influences in this newly recorded selection including jazz, pop, the…

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Light and Darkness - C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas

Manuel Granatiero, Accademia Ottoboni

Manuel Granatiero presents his first solo album, following several successful concerto recordings with Amandine Beyer's Gli Incogniti and Accademia Ottoboni, of which he is a founding member.

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New classical music

A Viennese Bouquet: Music for flute and piano

For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms

The Sound of Movies

Bach Generations

Music for a New Century

Classic 100: Your Favourite Instrument

Lieder: Brahms, Schumann, Mahler

Davidsharfen: Works for Two Harps

Liszt: Consolations

Mendelssohn: Choral Works

Handel: Water & Fire

El último aliento

Bernard Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights & Echoes for Strings

Voyager: Music for Horn Ensemble

Brad Mehldau: The Folly of Desire

Berlin Stories: Mendelssohn, Juon, Skalkottas

Shadow Dances: British Works for Flute

Duello d’Archi a Venezia

Broken Branches: Songs for voice and guitar

Pi – Pisendel

Schubert: Symphonies – Unfinished & Great

Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos

Echoes

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto & Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1

Hush: Gratitudes

Szymanowski: Mythes - Music for Violin and Piano

Love at Last

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 42, 77 & Seven Last Words

Australian Horn Trios

The American Project

Breathing Space

JS Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort – III

Haydn: The Complete Piano Trios, Vol 2

Federico Mompou: Música callada

Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius & Elgar – Music for Strings

Women of Note: Celebrating Australian Composers, Volume 5

Schumann & Brahms

The Unreleased Masters

The Handel Project: Handel-Suites & Brahms-Variations

Ostinato

JS Bach: Clavichord

Schubert: Schwanengesang

Steve Reich: The String Quartets

To Listen, To Sing - Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers

Walsingham

Mozart in Milan: Sacred Music around the Exsultate, jubilate

Tom Henry: Light in Dark – Works for Solo Piano

Light and Darkness - C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas