My aim was to convey human feelings and passions in this work, Shostakovich said of his newly completed Symphony No.10 in 1953. And it is clear exactly what it was that he wanted to relate: Stalin was dead, and after his music had been publicly denounced for being too abstract in 1948, Shostakovich had finally plucked up the courage to write another symphony. Ever since Kirill Kondrashin and Bernard Haitink first led performances of Shostakovich's symphonies in the late 1970s, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has astonished listeners with their level of refinement and involvement in this repertoire. With the tenure of Mariss Janson's, a degree of authenticity is added; like Kondrashin before him, Janson's has experienced himself what it is like to work under Soviet conditions. Following the award winning RCO Live release of his interpretation of Shostakovich's seventh symphony, Janson's's take on the composer's tenth adds another benchmark performance to the orchestra's discography.
SYMPHONY 10
$21.99
SACD
RCO LIVE HOLLAND
Jun 11, 2013
RCOV13001SACD
SCENES FROM ABOVE
BLUE NOTE RECORDS
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$32.99
Jan 23, 2026
Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage returns with his fifth Blue Note release, Scenes From Above, the follow-up to the GRAMMY-nominated Speak To Me, which was once again produced by Joe Henry. The album features Lage in a new band with John Medeski on organ and piano, Jorge Roeder on bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums for a set of striking new original compositions.180g black vinyl.
SCENES FROM ABOVE
$32.99
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BLUE NOTE RECORDS
Jan 23, 2026
BLUN216522.1
UNSTOPPABLE
GREEN HILL PROD.
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$28.99
Jan 23, 2026
The Piano Guys return with Unstoppable, a fan favorite album now on both CD & vinyl featuring their signature cinematic take on today's biggest hits. Includes stunning renditions of "As It Was," "When You're Gone," and "Easy on Me." Own the music you love in a beautifully packaged release from the viral sensations who redefine instrumental music. Don't miss this must-have addition to your collection!
Limited double orange and magenta colored vinyl LP pressing. As if from the farthest reaches of space, a tremendous positive energy has come to us via Light on a Satellite: It is Sun Ra's music, played by his Arkestra, more than 30 years after the legendary band founder's earthly demise - or, in other words, after his reported ascent to Saturn. Under the direction of Marshall Allen, the NEA Jazz Master (2025) and multi-instrumentalist, who celebrated his 100th birthday on May 25, 2024, Sun Ra's big band has arrived safely in the 21st century, after traveling Sun Ra's space ways for almost 70 years. This album pays tribute to the lifetime achievement of Marshall Allen, who leads the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1993. Recorded in Studio A at New York's Power Station on June 16, 2024, the album celebrates the mastery of the exceptional musician Marshall Allen as a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, bandleader, teacher, and guardian of Sun Ra's unique legacy. Perhaps this day will one day become part of the collective jazz memory, for what we are experiencing here is a simultaneity of the non-simultaneous, projected into the future, a time machine traveling through 100 years of jazz, out of the free approach of the Sun Ra Arkestra and in it's signature groove right into the heart of swing - with a century-old jazz master as captain. That in itself is a superlative. We are even more inspired by the power with which the virtuoso Marshall Allen continues his life's vocation. As a tribute to the life's work of Marshall Allen, Frank Kleinschmidt of IN+OUT Records invited the Sun Ra Arkestra into the studio with 24 musicians in the largest possible line-up, with the goal of documenting the music in it's polyphony and expansion in space and time in the best possible way. It is not only the variety of instruments used, but also the fact that musicians from four generations come together with a repertoire that spans 100 years of jazz history.
LIGHTS ON A SATELLITE
$52.49
Vinyl
IN & OUT RECORDS
Nov 22, 2024
IOT771583.1
LIGHTS ON A SATELLITE
IN & OUT RECORDS
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$45.49
Nov 22, 2024
Double vinyl LP pressing. As if from the farthest reaches of space, a tremendous positive energy has come to us via Light on a Satellite: It is Sun Ra's music, played by his Arkestra, more than 30 years after the legendary band founder's earthly demise - or, in other words, after his reported ascent to Saturn. Under the direction of Marshall Allen, the NEA Jazz Master (2025) and multi-instrumentalist, who celebrated his 100th birthday on May 25, 2024, Sun Ra's big band has arrived safely in the 21st century, after traveling Sun Ra's space ways for almost 70 years. This album pays tribute to the lifetime achievement of Marshall Allen, who leads the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1993. Recorded in Studio A at New York's Power Station on June 16, 2024, the album celebrates the mastery of the exceptional musician Marshall Allen as a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, bandleader, teacher, and guardian of Sun Ra's unique legacy. Perhaps this day will one day become part of the collective jazz memory, for what we are experiencing here is a simultaneity of the non-simultaneous, projected into the future, a time machine traveling through 100 years of jazz, out of the free approach of the Sun Ra Arkestra and in it's signature groove right into the heart of swing - with a century-old jazz master as captain. That in itself is a superlative. We are even more inspired by the power with which the virtuoso Marshall Allen continues his life's vocation. As a tribute to the life's work of Marshall Allen, Frank Kleinschmidt of IN+OUT Records invited the Sun Ra Arkestra into the studio with 24 musicians in the largest possible line-up, with the goal of documenting the music in it's polyphony and expansion in space and time in the best possible way. It is not only the variety of instruments used, but also the fact that musicians from four generations come together with a repertoire that spans 100 years of jazz history.
LIGHTS ON A SATELLITE
$45.49
Vinyl
IN & OUT RECORDS
Nov 22, 2024
IOT771581.1
STAR PEOPLE
COLUMBIA EUROPE
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$76.99
Oct 18, 2024
'Star People,' the blistering 1983 album from Miles Davis, is the VMP Classics Record of the Month for November 2022. It's here on 180g black audiophile vinyl pressed at RTI with AAA lacquers cut from tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.
STAR PEOPLE
$76.99
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COLUMBIA EUROPE
Oct 18, 2024
COLB9989601.1
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
WARNER CLASSICS
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$10.49
Sep 18, 2015
Classical Music
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
$10.49
CD
WARNER CLASSICS
Sep 18, 2015
WCL552125.2
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS
WARNER CLASSICS
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$10.49
Sep 25, 2015
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2015) Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra When it comes to evoking the colors and moods of Vivaldi's Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, Itzhak Perlman deploys an inimitably rich and varied palette. He directs the London Philharmonic Orchestra from the violin.
VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS
$10.49
CD
WARNER CLASSICS
Sep 25, 2015
WCL552452.2
BACH - SONATAS & PARTITAS
WARNER CLASSICS
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$22.99
Apr 23, 2021
Recording Bach's complete Six Sonatas and Partitas has long been a dream of mine," says Augustin Hadelich "They are formidable tests of technical ability and stamina, but also of musical imagination and expressive range - they never cease to provide challenges, hope, and joy." For his interpretation, sensitive to historical practice, Hadelich chose to use a baroque bow. "It was a revelation," he says. "It felt liberating... Passages of three- and four-note chords felt more fluid... The dance movements danced more and the slow movements sang more.
BACH - SONATAS & PARTITAS
$22.99
CD
WARNER CLASSICS
Apr 23, 2021
WCL504874.2
MOZART: MITRIDATE RE DI PONTO
ERATO
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$28.99
Dec 10, 2021
A brilliant line-up for this new recording by Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, made during lockdown. The album stars Michael Spyres, Sabine Devieilhe, and Elsa Dreisig. It also features Julie Fuchs, Paul-Antoine B�nos-Djian, Cyrille Dubois, and Adriana Bignani Lesca. This is the first recording of this opera of Mozart on the Warner Classics & Erato labels.
MOZART: MITRIDATE RE DI PONTO
$28.99
CD
ERATO
Dec 10, 2021
EAO661757.2
Saint Saens: Symphony No. 3 Piano Concerto No. 4 / Les Siecles
HARMONIA MUNDI
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$18.49
Dec 10, 2021
Camille Saint-Saëns, virtuoso pianist, organist and conductor, was also a great admirer of Liszt. His Symphony No.3, which adds both his chosen keyboard instruments to the orchestra, and his Piano Concerto No.4 utilize the codes of the old master, the better to transcend them. As partner of Les Siècles since 2017, harmonia mundi felt it was a must to reissue these fiery readings of two masterpieces in the great French Romantic tradition, for which François-Xavier Roth invited two eminent soloists.
Saint Saens: Symphony No. 3 Piano Concerto No. 4 / Les Siecles
$18.49
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HARMONIA MUNDI
Dec 10, 2021
HMF905348.2
MOZART: REQUIEM
WARNER CLASSICS
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Nov 05, 2021
Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes Mozart's Requiem as "an intensely personal confrontation, frightening and moving in the case of a composer who normally kept his life and experience divorced from his art to an astonishing degree". This famous recording uses an edition published by Eulenberg in 1972; seeking to come closer to the spirit of the composer himself, it replaces the familiar instrumentation of Franz Xaver S�ssmayr, who completed the Requiem after Mozart's death. For the 40th anniversary of this recording, Warner Classics has newly remastered it from original tapes in High Definition 192kHz/24-bit.
MOZART: REQUIEM
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WARNER CLASSICS
Nov 05, 2021
WCL661134.1
AGNUS DEI
ERATO
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Dec 10, 2021
This richly varied collection of meditative sacred music takes it's name, Agnus Dei, from the opening item, a setting for voices of Samuel Barber's celebrated and deeply expressive Adagio for Strings. The hauntingly melodic choral masterpieces that fill these two vinyls span five centuries and are the work of such composers as Bach, Mozart, Allegri, Albinoni, Faur�, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Elgar and, from nearer our own time, John Tavener and Henryk G�recki. They are performed by the choir of New College Oxford, an exemplar of Britain's great choral tradition.
AGNUS DEI
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ERATO
Dec 10, 2021
EAO661133.1
MOST RELAXING CLASSICAL MUSIC IN UNIVERSE / VAR
DENON RECORDS
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$12.49
Apr 08, 2003
Prepare to drift away on the soothing sound of the eternal classics collected on this 2-CD set.
MOST RELAXING CLASSICAL MUSIC IN UNIVERSE / VAR
$12.49
CD
DENON RECORDS
Apr 08, 2003
DNR17232.2
BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
ERATO
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$17.49
Jan 14, 2022
David Fray adds a landmark of the solo keyboard repertoire to his Bach discography: the Goldberg Variations. "The Goldberg Variations are a real test," he says. "They are the work of a lifetime, perhaps a work about life itself... a kind of rite of passage, a journey. Every element of human life is in them... When you play the theme again after the 30 variations, in it's original purity, it is as if you're at the end of your life, looking back over everything that has happened in the last hour-and-a-half. Few works give such a sense of eternity".
BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
$17.49
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ERATO
Jan 14, 2022
EAO660691.2
ALLA NAPOLETANA
ERATO
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$18.99
Nov 26, 2021
Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata and eight guest singers explore the musical highways and byways of Naples, the most intoxicating and idiosyncratic of Italy's large cities. Alla Napoletana, a double album, expresses the city's mercurial personality in music from the 17th to the 20th centuries, embracing the operatic style of the so-called Neapolitan School, which rose to prominence in the late 1700s, and popular songs and dances. Among them are several examples of the tarantella, the lively, sometimes frenzied dance that epitomizes southern Italy.
ALLA NAPOLETANA
$18.99
CD
ERATO
Nov 26, 2021
EAO660361.2
MANON LESCAUT
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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$30.99
Dec 02, 2016
MANON LESCAUT
MANON LESCAUT
$30.99
CD
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Dec 02, 2016
DEGRB002596602.2
ROUTES OF SLAVERY 1444-1888
ALIA VOX
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$51.49
Jul 07, 2017
Classical Music
ROUTES OF SLAVERY 1444-1888
$51.49
CD
ALIA VOX
Jul 07, 2017
AV9920.2
MUSIC AT THE COURT OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
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$34.99
Apr 14, 2017
MUSIC AT THE COURT OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I
MUSIC AT THE COURT OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I
$34.99
Vinyl
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
Apr 14, 2017
DEGR4797135.1
BRAHMS: THE FINAL PIANO PIECES
HYPERION
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$18.49
Jan 03, 2020
On this exciting release from Hyperion, Stephen Hough performs a collection of exquisite Brahmsian miniatures. The pianist refers to these works as brief meditations on last things before 'the light fades and the final cigar is extinguished.'
