SWR Classics 25th Anniversary

ArkivMusic congratulates SWR Classic on the label’s 25th anniversary and is pleased to be able to offer over 400 titles from its catalog, featured below, on sale now until late-April 2025!

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

  • Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
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    Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    This third installment in a series documenting the works of Maurice Ravel includes his longest work, Daphnis et Chloe, as well as Valses nobles et sentimentales. The works are performed here by the Stuttgart Radio...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2016

  • Bartok: The Works for Violin and Piano / Becker-Bender, Nagy
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    Bartok: The Works for Violin and Piano / Becker-Bender, Nagy

    $18.99 Regular price $28.99

    Tanja Becker-Bender, one of Germany's most distinguished violinists, already has a number of critically acclaimed CDs of absorbing repertoire to her credit. Her collaboration with the Hungarian pianist Peter Nagy over many years has borne...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2016

  • Rihm: 2 Other Movements, Abkehr & Schattenstück
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    Rihm: 2 Other Movements, Abkehr & Schattenstück

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    He has now been composing for nearly half a century, Wolfgang Rihm, born in Karlsruhe in 1952, where he was already learning composition from Eugen Werner Velte while still a high school student, later also...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 08, 2016

  • The Ludwigsburg Concert
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    The Ludwigsburg Concert

    $17.99 Regular price $27.99

    Lyle Mays became famous as the genious counterpart of Pat Metheny aspart of his Quartet in the 70s. This concert is the only legal recording of the Lyle Mays quartet. Lyle Mays (piano); Bob Sheppard...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2015

  • Antonin Dvorak: String Quartets No. 10 & 13
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    Antonin Dvorak: String Quartets No. 10 & 13

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Founded 1998, the Bennewitz Quartet, from the Czech Republic, have become one of the classical music world's top international chamber ensembles, a status confirmed not only by prestigious competition victories but also by the acclaim...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Dvorak: Symphony No. 5; In Nature's Realm; Scherzo Capriccioso
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    Dvorak: Symphony No. 5; In Nature's Realm; Scherzo Capriccioso

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Written during the summer of 1875, Anton�n Dvor�k's Symphony No. 5 in F Major, Op. 76 is considered the first work in which Dvor�k found his way to a new symphonic idiom. It's noticeable inflections...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Great Britain
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    Great Britain

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Great Britain's music culture is marked by a centuries-old tradition of choral singing, as is shown, for instance, in the institution of college choirs. Church policy had a beneficial effect on the development of sacred...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Honegger: Symphonies & Symphonic Movements
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    Honegger: Symphonies & Symphonic Movements

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    St�phane Den�ve, Chief Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) leads his orchestra on this recording in interpretations of the music of French composer Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), works that count among Honegger's best known,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • R. Strauss: Tone Poems, Vol. 4
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    R. Strauss: Tone Poems, Vol. 4

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Richard Strauss spent nearly a decade and a half writing Eine Alpensinfonie, a work describing the impressions of a mountain hike with such clarity that the score could almost be considered film music sans film....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Debussy: Piano Music, Vol. 4
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    Debussy: Piano Music, Vol. 4

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    For his fourth CD recording on SWR, pianist Michael Korstick turns his focus and attention toward Claude Debussy and his journey toward artistic maturity, from the French composer's earliest piano pieces, the Deux Arabesques, the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 09, 2015

  • Insomnia
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    Insomnia

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Insomnia is the story of a nocturnal journey, reassuring and disturbing at the same time, both mystical and unpredictable. An escape from ourselves into the soft focus the night, but then leading us back again...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 09, 2015

  • Remembering the Rain
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    Remembering the Rain

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    Only a few, famous jazz bassists have ever gone beyond the limitations of their instruments and sought new opportunities on the cello. The cellist Valentin Radutiu turns the tables to show how well the cello...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 12, 2015

  • Beethoven & Mozart: Trio Recital (Recorded 1966)
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    Beethoven & Mozart: Trio Recital (Recorded 1966)

    $8.99 Regular price $13.99

    One has no problem naming famous String Quartet ensembles; however, String Trios simply cannot make the same boast! Even on the repertoire of the side, composers have produced many more significant quartets than they have...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 12, 2015

  • Dvorák: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1
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    Dvorák: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1

    $13.99 Regular price $20.99

    This release marks the first appearance of the chief conductor of the German radio philharmonic orchestra, Karel Mark Chichon, on the SWR music label, and for his debut, the young London-born conductor has done nothing...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 14, 2015

  • Henryk Szeryng Plays Nardini, Vieuxemps, Ravel, Schumann
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    Henryk Szeryng Plays Nardini, Vieuxemps, Ravel, Schumann

    $8.99 Regular price $13.99

    Henryk Szeryng, once regarded a supreme master, has faded from memory, his fame not comparable to that of Heifetz or Oistrakh, Milstein or Menuhin, although often mentioned along with them. His performances set standards; the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2015