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Daugherty: Blue Electra / Meyers, Miller, Albany Symphony
$19.99
This recording showcases three new evocative works by GRAMMY Award-winning American composer Michael Daugherty, exploring the triumphs and tragedies of flight. Blue Electra is a dramatic violin concerto inspired by the sensational life and mysterious...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Bach: Easter Oratorio; Magnificat
$19.99
San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues its exploration of J.S. Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat. Released in time for Holy Week, both works...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Reynaldo Hahn: Le Dieu Bleu
Les Frivolites Parisiennes return to b-records with a revival of Le Dieu Bleu, a ballet by Michel Fokine which premiered in 1912, and whose music by Reynaldo Hahn had not been heard in France since...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Lully: Alceste
$39.99
In 1674, Lully and Quinault unveiled a new collaboration: Alceste, a tragedie en musique combining the dramatic power of the Greek myth from which it was inspired with the musical richness of the French Baroque....
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
Future Releases
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Pre-orderPhilipp Scharwenka: Piano Music, Vol. 2
$20.99
As composer, pianist and educationalist, the Prussian-born Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) was one of most highly respected musicians of his day, although his star faded soon after his death. His music - more conservative and classical...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 02, 2025
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Pre-orderThe Trombone’s Pleasure Garden
$20.99
Ercole Nisini's musical world knows no boundaries. Equally fascinated by Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical music, he shares this enthusiasm with his fellow musicians and audiences. On his new GENUIN album, he releases rarely performed repertoire...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 02, 2025
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Pre-order"Degenerated Music" for clarinet & piano
$16.99
In 2014 in Trieste, Italy, the Musica Libera Association started the Festival Viktor Ullmann to bring to life the music of many composers persecuted by the Nazi and Fascist regimes for their Jewish origin and...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 02, 2025
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Pre-orderJan Dismas Zelenka: Lacrimae
$26.99
The unmistakable bass of Tomas Selc at the service of Jan Dismas Zelenka Tomas Selc devotes himself to the cantata and oratorio literature of the 18th through the 20th centuries, romantic lieder, and opera, collaborating...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 30, 2025
All New Releases
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my inmost heart - Variations on Brahms
$19.99
Pianist Luisa Imorde, deeply inspired by Brahms, presents an album of his works, contextualizing his music with pieces that influenced him, like those by Bach and other Baroque composers. Through her sensible and virtuosic playing...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 04, 2025
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On SaleGuarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection
$149.99 Regular price
$199.98In the early 1960s, four young musicians who had been playing chamber music at Rudolf Serkin’s Marlboro School and Festival in Vermont were encouraged to form a string quartet. In July 1964, the Guarneri Quartet...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 28, 2025
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Shor: Composer’s Notebook, Vol. 3
$19.99
Alexey Shor was born in Ukraine but now lives in New York pursuing a distinguished career filled with prestigious performances and recordings in collaboration with leading international musicians. Childhood Memories traces a path from early...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Gary Bertini conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 5
$20.99
'The Fifth is a cursed piece. Nobody understands it,' said Gustav Mahler in March 1905 after a performance of his Fifth Symphony in Hamburg. He had been working on his new symphony for almost three...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Indomita (Bellini, Donizetti & Verdi)
$17.99
On her solo debut album Indomita, soprano Eleonora Buratto pays tribute to the greatest composers and most insurmountable heroines of Italian nineteenth-century opera, together with the Orchestra & Coro dell'Opera Carlo Felice Genova under the...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Borderless
$21.99
Hammond B-3 organ has a rich host of illustrious players in the jazz history including Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Joey DeFrancesco to mention a few, but Brian Charette is the first (and so far the...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Handel: La Resurrezione
$29.99
Handel composed his oratorio La Resurrezione in 1707 with a libretto that provided a dramatic canvas for his new work: lamentation on Christ's death contrasted with violent exchanges between the Angel and Lucifer. It inspired...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025
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Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar
$16.99
Challenge Classics is proud to present the first collaboration with reputed Spanish ensemble Accademia del Piacere. Accademia del Piacere for about ten records which have received several awards around the world. This new recording by...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 11, 2025