Ondine

  • Sibelius: Complete Works for Mixed Choir / Seppänen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
    Sibelius: Complete Works for Mixed Choir / Seppänen, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    $36.99

    The fourth album on Ondine by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is dedicated to the composer’s complete works for mixed choir. The award-winning choir, one of the finest of its kind internationally, is conducted here...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2015

  • Shostakovich & Liszt / Dmitri Hvorostovsky
    Shostakovich & Liszt / Dmitri Hvorostovsky

    $18.99

    Dmitri Hvorostovsky's fourth release on Ondine features a program of rarely recorded sonnets by Dmitri Shostakovich and Franz Liszt. Hvorostovsky is accompanied by his longtime duo partner, the Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja. Shostakovich's sonnets, considered...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2015

  • Shostakovich: Six Romances, Scottish Ballade, Poems Of Michelangelo / Finley, Sanderling
    Shostakovich: Six Romances, Scottish Ballade, Poems Of Michelangelo / Finley, Sanderling

    $18.99

    REVIEW: Is Gerald Finley today’s Fischer-Dieskau? I don’t mean to suggest that their voices sound alike—or that they share an interpretive perspective. But like his predecessor, Finley is comfortable in opera, oratorio, and song; his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 25, 2014

  • Shostakovch: Execution of Stepan Razin; Zoya Suite / Ashkenazy, Helsinki Phiharmonic
    Shostakovch: Execution of Stepan Razin; Zoya Suite / Ashkenazy, Helsinki Phiharmonic

    $18.99

    • With this release Ondine presents two dramatic works by Dmitri Shostakovich, The Execution of Stepan Razin and the Zoya Suite, coupled with his Suite on Finnish Themes. • The Execution of Stepan Razin, premiered...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 27, 2013

  • Selickis: Paradisus vocis / Kļava, Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga
    Selickis: Paradisus vocis / Kļava, Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga

    $18.99

    Andrejs Selickis (b. 1960) is a singular, idiosyncratic phenomenon among Latvian composers. As with Arvo Pärt, Selickis’ work is inseparably linked to his faith, which has found a deep and unique expression in his distinct...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 09, 2018

  • Schumann: Violin Sonatas / Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt
    Schumann: Violin Sonatas / Christian Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt

    $18.99

    REVIEW: This robust, energetic recording of the three Schumann sonatas follows the duo’s recording of Mozart sonatas, a recording that was honored both by Gramophone and by the BBC Music Magazine . In my collection,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 24, 2013

  • Schubert: Impromptus, Moments musicaux & German Dances / Vogt
    Schubert: Impromptus, Moments musicaux & German Dances / Vogt

    $17.99

    Following Lars Vogt's massively popular recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, this new recording features much-loved piano works by Franz Schubert. Vogt was appointed the first ever "Pianist in Residence" by the Berlin Philharmonic in 2003-2004...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 14, 2016

  • Scarlatti: Sonatas (Arranged For Accordion) / Janne Rattya
    Scarlatti: Sonatas (Arranged For Accordion) / Janne Rattya

    $18.99

    D. SCARLATTI Harpsichord Sonatas • Janne Rättyä (acc) • ONDINE 1232-2 (57:10) After a couple of generic paragraphs about the music, mixing the usual, uninformative clichés with some eyebrow-raising opinions (“Scarlatti introduces a veritable history...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Sallinen: Kullervo / Hynninen, Salminen, Soderblom, Finnish National Opera
    Sallinen: Kullervo / Hynninen, Salminen, Soderblom, Finnish National Opera

    $32.99

    Aulis Sallinen (1935) is one of the internationally most well-known Finnish opera composers. At home with large scale works, his Kullervo opera is considered by many his greatest achievement in the field of opera. This...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2014

  • Sacred Love / Antonenko, Ezeriete, Klava, Latvian Radio Choir
    Sacred Love / Antonenko, Ezeriete, Klava, Latvian Radio Choir

    $18.99

    This new release from the Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kłava features choral works by three Russian and Latvian composers: Yuri Falik, Artūrs Maskats and Georgy Sviridov. The disc’s themes range from love to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2014

  • Saariaho: Notes On Light, Orion, Mirage / Mattila, Karttunen, Eschenbach
    Saariaho: Notes On Light, Orion, Mirage / Mattila, Karttunen, Eschenbach

    $18.99

    A likely masterpiece from Finland joins new music from scintillating Saariaho Kaija Saariaho is the Finnish composer, alongside Magnus Lindberg, who most excites me at present. Like her fellow countryman, she finds textures that feel...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 02, 2004

  • Roussel: Symphony No. 3 / Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris
    Roussel: Symphony No. 3 / Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris

    $18.99

    REVIEWS: The Third Symphony was...favored by Karajan in the 1950s. It was the product of a composer in his sixties writing in his Normandy home at Vasterival. It was premiered by the Boston SO and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 31, 2004

  • Respighi: Works for Orchestra / Mustonen, Oramo, FRSO
    Respighi: Works for Orchestra / Mustonen, Oramo, FRSO

    $18.99

    RESPIGHI Concerto in modo misolidio 1. Fountains of Rome • Sakari Oramo, cond; 1 Olli Mustonen (pn); Finnish RSO • ONDINE 1165 (53:53) Sakari Oramo and his Finnish forces give us a sensitive if not...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 28, 2010

  • Remembering JFK - 50th Anniversay Concert
    Remembering JFK - 50th Anniversay Concert

    $21.99

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy the National Symphony Orchestra presented a new work by Peter Lieberson called "Remembering JFK," an orchestral piece with movie star Richard Dreyfuss...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 31, 2011

  • Ravel: Works for Orchestra / Eschenbach, Philadelphia Orchestra
    Ravel: Works for Orchestra / Eschenbach, Philadelphia Orchestra

    $18.99

    REVIEW: This CD is something of a birthday present of Ondine to itself—one that’s well deserved, I think. I hadn’t come across Marius Constant’s orchestration of Gaspard de la nuit, undertaken in 1990, before this...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 10, 2001