2024 Holiday Gift Guide

The 2024 Holiday Season is now underway at ArkivMusic! Our Holiday Gift Guide features dozens of great recordings by outstanding artists, including Michael Tilson Thomas, JoAnn Falletta, Masaaka Suzuki, and many more.

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, January 7, 2025.

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Johnston, Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra
    Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Johnston, Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra

    $42.99

    The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vanska bring us Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, an extraordinary work by any standards. Scored for extended Wagnerian woodwind and brass sections, posthorn, a large array of percussion, women's chorus, alto...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: July 19, 2024

  • Italian Cello Sonatas
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    Italian Cello Sonatas

    $25.99 Regular price $39.99

    By the time of the ‘Ottocento’ (19th century), opera was the dominant force in Italian musical culture, with bel canto composers such as Rossini and Donizetti creating a public appetite for opera that eclipsed achievements...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 14, 2024

  • Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations / Stern, Kansas City Symphony
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    Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations / Stern, Kansas City Symphony

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    REFERENCE RECORDINGS® proudly presents an imaginative album of three compositions by Johannes Brahms, in an outstanding interpretation from Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony. It features the first recording of American composer and Kansas...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 21, 2024

  • Forgotten Sounds - Debussy & Loeffler
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    Forgotten Sounds - Debussy & Loeffler

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Unheard since two performances in 1897, Charles Martin Loeffler’s Octet is recorded here for the first time, owing to the persistence of Graeme Steele Johnson, a versatile clarinetist whose artistic endeavors range from a TEDx...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 07, 2024

  • Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances; Isle of the Dead / Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony
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    Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances; Isle of the Dead / Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    Leonard Slatkin’s Vox recordings of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works revealed him to be a great advocate for this composer’s music – a position he still holds to this day. These recordings with the St. Louis Symphony...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2024

  • Foss: Symphony No. 1 & other Orchestral Works / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic
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    Foss: Symphony No. 1 & other Orchestral Works / Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    German-American composer Lukas Foss transformed the Buffalo Philharmonic into an adventurous and world-renowned orchestra during his tenure as music director, and he was a mentor to the orchestra’s current music director, JoAnn Falletta, at the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2024

  • The Lost Generation - Apostel, Busch & Kauder / Botstein, The Orchestra Now
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    The Lost Generation - Apostel, Busch & Kauder / Botstein, The Orchestra Now

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    If you’ve seen the Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro”, you’ve seen and heard The Orchestra Now, the exceptional ensemble that appears in the movie’s Tanglewood Music Festival scene. The Orchestra Now (TON), a New York-based graduate-level...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2024

  • Schubert: Ländler / Pierre-Laurent Aimard
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    Schubert: Ländler / Pierre-Laurent Aimard

    $11.99 Regular price $17.99

    Star pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard presents Ländler, a collection of delightful dances composed by Franz Schubert. Rustic and cheerful, these miniatures display a fascinating side of Schubert’s musical persona. Their simplicity is deceptive, as these dances...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2024

  • Peter Donohoe Plays Granados & Albéniz
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    Peter Donohoe Plays Granados & Albéniz

    $14.99 Regular price $22.99

    Claude Debussy wrote of Albéniz: ‘Never has music attained such diverse impressions and colors. One closes one’s eyes and is dazzled by contemplating so many images.’ Iberia certainly fits this description beyond doubt, with its...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 17, 2024

  • American Voices / Pacifica Quartet
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    American Voices / Pacifica Quartet

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    The multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet continues its highly acclaimed recording series that explores the sounds of America with an album comprising string quartets incorporating elements of American folk music and spirituals by Anton Dvořák,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades
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    Mozart: Complete Divertimenti & Serenades

    $29.99 Regular price $44.99

    A divertimento is defined as music intended for light entertainment, 'to please the ear' rather than arouse the emotions, in the phrase of one early-19th-century theorist. The word was used interchangeably at the time with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 10, 2024

  • Martucci Collection
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    Martucci Collection

    $34.99 Regular price $51.99

    This is the most comprehensive collection ever released of Giuseppe Martucci’s music, in stylish modern recordings by native Italian musicians.An Italian Brahms is an unlikely idea, but it encapsulates a superficial acquaintance with the music...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 03, 2024

  • Tippett: A Child of Our Time / Davis, BBC Symphony
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    Tippett: A Child of Our Time / Davis, BBC Symphony

    $15.99 Regular price $23.99

    Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time was composed between 1939 and 1942 as a direct response to the events leading up to (and including) the notorious Kristallnacht, in November 1938, in National Socialist...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: May 03, 2024

  • Dohnányi: Piano Works (Original Bösendorfer, 1910) / Gülbadamova
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    Dohnányi: Piano Works (Original Bösendorfer, 1910) / Gülbadamova

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    Ernst von Dohnányi was interested in various inventions throughout his life, so it is not surprising that around 1909–1910 he became one of the main promoters of pianos with a semi-circular keyboard. At that time,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 19, 2024

  • Fučík: Dances & Marches / Štilec, Czech CPO Pardubice
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    Fučík: Dances & Marches / Štilec, Czech CPO Pardubice

    $12.99 Regular price $19.99

    One of the great ‘march kings’ of his time, Julius Fucik gained worldwide fame for his immortal Entry of the Gladiators, but after the composer’s death in 1916 many scores were lost. Painstaking editorial work...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 12, 2024