Even at a very advanced age, the great pianist Paul Badura-Skoda is always good for a surprise: His new CD recording with GENUIN is perhaps one of the most unusual recordings, one of the most daring tonal experiments seen in recent years.

Gustav Mahler came of age in the late 1880s as the long and storied tradition of Austro German Romanticism reached its peak.

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A virtuoso of legendary renown, Maxim Vengerov is acclaimed as a musician of the highest order.

For the concerts on 23 March 1993 and 20 March 1995 Sandor Vegh brought his own orchestra, the Camerata Academica Salzburg to Hungary.

Nathalie Stutzmann sings and conducts her 'cantate imaginaire' (Imaginary Cantata)... After attracting attention at the French 'Victoires de la Musique Classique' Awards in 2012, the contralto and conductor Nathalie Stutzmann is back with her Orfeo 55 ensemble.

I have just finished my Eighth. It is the greatest thing I have done so far, Gustav Mahler wrote euphorically to the conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1906.

Amidst all the turmoil of war in the years 1940 to 1943, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari composed a violin concerto in the festive key of D major.

When conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra, a matter which is of key importance to Kent Nagano is the orchestra's special character, which has evolved from out of its almost 500 years of tradition, it being one of the oldest orchestras world wide.

Tafelmusik presents Beethoven's landmark Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Eroica - a heroic and monumental symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon, and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Italian.

Jaap van Zweden is currently releasing the cycle of Bruckner Symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for Octavia Records, with Symphonies 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 already released to great critical acclaim.

Virgin Classics present the world-premiere recording of L'Oracolo in Messenia, an opera prepared by Vivaldi for Vienna and now reconstructed by Fabio Biondi.

Isabelle Faust hit the Classical charts earlier this year with her mesmerising recording of Beethoven and Berg with Claudio Abbado.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Valentina began playing the piano at the age of three and performed her first solo recital just one year later.

Founded in 1989 by Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante acquired an international reputation through his reading and his then revolutionary interpretation of music on period instruments.

Soon after their first performance in 1950, within months of the composer's death, Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs became one of his most enduringly popular works.

Commissioned to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1932, Orango tells the fantastical story of a human-ape hybrid, who, through a combination of sleazy journalism, stock-exchange swindles and blackmail, rises to become a ruthless newspaper baron.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra bring their unique energy to one of the summits of the orchestral repertoire - Beethoven's mighty Symphony No.3, the 'Eroica'.

The release of the complete Beethoven Symphonies under the banner of Beethoven for All will launch a unique recording and performance project for 2012 in which, in his 70th year, the tireless Daniel Barenboim will also release the complete Piano Concertos and Piano Sonatas.

Thirty years on from their acclaimed recording for Erato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to the Bach Motets in a new SDG recording, taken from a concert in London last year at the end of a tour which saw performances in Italy, France, The Netherlands and Germany.

Herbert von Karajan famously resigned as director of the Vienna State Opera in 1964, but in May 1977 he was persuaded to return for a handful of performances with the company.

Much has been written about the Suites, so only a minimum needs mentioning here. Bach is assumed to have composed the Suites in Kothen around 1720; it is unclear whether they were all composed there or whether Suites IV and VI were completed later in Leipzig.

Issued to mark the centenary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth, this 3CD set brings together for the first time all the EMI recordings by this great contralto, including two previously unissued tracks.

Sir John Barbirolli was a champion of both Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen. He recorded all the Sibelius Symphonies and many of the orchestral works, but this 1959 recording of the Symphony No.4 ‘The Inextinguishable’ is Barbirolli’s only commercial recording of the music of Nielsen.

Schumann's Cello Concerto was long regarded as a minor achievement; it has also been accused of treating the solo instrument unfavourably.

Luigi Piovano and Sara Mingardo choose a different perspective on the music of Gustav Mahler, through the eyes of Arnold Schoenberg.

Recognised internationally as a conductor of the highest calibre, Stephane Deneve took up the post of Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 2005, and has since attracted attention from audiences and critics alike.

Although he was never one of the 20th century's most prominent conductors in terms of festival appearances and recording contracts, Lovro von Matacic (1899-1985) was in many ways comparable to today's top conductors.

Already established within Viennese culture by Haydn and Mozart, the trio genre was taken to new limits by the inexhaustible imagination of Beethoven's genius:

Rarely mentioned in the same breath as his illustrious colleagues Talich, Kubelik and Ancerl, Karel Sejna was perennially second-in-command, yet despite failing to receive the credit he deserves he too played a crucial role in shaping the history of the Czech Philharmonic.

Louis Marchand is the French composer who has entered legend for a musical duel with J. S. Bach which he is supposed finally to have dodged.

シュッツノ代表作をヒリアー指揮アルス・ノヴァ・コペンハーゲンの透明至純な合唱で。

シュッツノ代表作をヒリアー指揮アルス・ノヴァ・コペンハーゲンの透明至純な合唱で。

シュッツの代表作をヒリアー指揮アルス・ノヴァ・コペンハーゲンの透明至純な合唱で。

シュッツの代表作をヒリアー指揮アルス・ノヴァ・コペンハーゲンの透明至純な合唱で。

In May 2011, Rolando Villazon made his acclaimed return to Covent Garden singing the title role in Massenet's Werther - 'a perfect fit for him' as The Independent glowed.

The four live recordings of the present set are first-time issues and have been recorded in Berlin, Lucerne, Hamburg and Cologne.

Experience, virtuosity and individuality are all required when tackling J.S. Bach's popular cello suites; Richard Tunnicliffe brings a lifetime of study to his debut solo recording.

"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again". Philippe Herreweghe’s longlasting interest in the works of the Cantor of Leipzig has turned him into a man whose views evolve as he delves deeper into his subject matter.

Nonesuch Records will release an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and composer/ Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

Zuzana Ruzickova, an exceptional personality upon whom the critics conferred the title "First Lady of the Harpsichord", continued the pioneering efforts Wanda Landowska had made to get the harpsichord recognised as an independent concert instrument.

The Royal Flemish Philharmonic is a modern and stylistically flexible symphony orchestra.

Chicago-born violinist Tai Murray was named a BBC New Generation Artist in 2009.

Stile Antico (joined by Fretwork) explore long-neglected repertory: the wealth of Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for domestic devotion, rather than for church worship.

This collection contains all Debussy’s works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music.

Concluding a highly acclaimed series of Schubert song cycles on the Wigmore Hall Live label, the much anticipated Schwanengesang.

This CD features Olli Mustonen with piano works by Alexander Scriabin, which have become his signature pieces in recital concerts.

These scores show two completely different periods in the life of Shostakovich: that of a young musician suddenly become famous, going from strength to strength, and a quarter of a century later, the trials and disappointments, both professional and romantic, of a composer nearing his fiftieth anniversary.

Over the past few years, Jan Willem de Vriend and The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra have made CD recordings of all the Symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven.

The Hungarian Miklos Perenyi is recognised as one of the great cellists of his generation, with a distinctive, subtly nuanced sound matched by extraordinary musicality.