We’re looking forward to The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition beginning this Friday! Congratulations to the 30 talented competitors! This is the fifth year Harmonia Mundi will be the official recording label for the medalists’ performances. We’ll be posting updates on Facebook during the competition.

We’re looking forward to The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition beginning this Friday! Congratulations to the 30 talented competitors!

This is the fifth year Harmonia Mundi will be the official recording label for the medalists’ performances. We’ll be posting updates on Facebook during the competition.

Happy 200th Birthday to Richard Wagner!! Celebrate with the box set Die Walkure by The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. 
Winner of a Diapason d’or, FFFF of Telerama, BBC Music Choice and more!

Happy 200th Birthday to Richard Wagner!!

Celebrate with the box set Die Walkure by The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Valery Gergiev.

Winner of a Diapason d’or, FFFF of Telerama, BBC Music Choice and more!

classicalmusichumor:

Happy Birthday, Wagner!!

“The distinguished, ever-curious vocal quartet Anonymous 4 …returned on Sunday afternoon to the early music that is the core of its reputation…the program at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights [was] lovingly and radiantly sung” - The New York Times live review.

“The distinguished, ever-curious vocal quartet Anonymous 4 …returned on Sunday afternoon to the early music that is the core of its reputation…the program at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights [was] lovingly and radiantly sung” - The New York Times live review.

“This is not only Matthias Goerne’s best Schubert recording to date, but it’s among the finest Schubert lieder recordings in the catalog.” - 10/10 Classics TodaySCHUBERT. Erlkonig is on iTunes!

“This is not only Matthias Goerne’s best Schubert recording to date, but it’s among the finest Schubert lieder recordings in the catalog.” - 10/10 Classics Today

SCHUBERT. Erlkonig is on iTunes!

ellevish:

Their Instruments May Be Garbage, But the Music Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes

In a Paraguay slum, a children’s orchestra makes do with what it’s got—with inspiring results.

So wonderful.

Paul O’Dette has six concerts at the Boston Early Music Festival, beginning on June 9! See his schedule here.  MILANO. Il Divino - Works for Lute is now available on iTunes!

Paul O’Dette has six concerts at the Boston Early Music Festival, beginning on June 9! See his schedule here.

MILANO. Il Divino - Works for Lute is now available on iTunes!

Catch Kristian Bezuidenhout playing Mozart at the Boston Early Music Festival on June 10 at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall!  MOZART. Keyboard Music Vol. 4 is on iTunes.

Catch Kristian Bezuidenhout playing Mozart at the Boston Early Music Festival on June 10 at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall! 

MOZART. Keyboard Music Vol. 4 is on iTunes.

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“All of these highly worthy pieces are world-premiere recordings, and they are given stylish, grandly committed performances by the The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and The Dmitri Ensemble, all under the clearly inspirational leadership of conductor Graham Ross.” - HOLST, I. Choral Works in Opera News. 
Listen to the album on iTunes!

“All of these highly worthy pieces are world-premiere recordings, and they are given stylish, grandly committed performances by the The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, and The Dmitri Ensemble, all under the clearly inspirational leadership of conductor Graham Ross.” - HOLST, I. Choral Works in Opera News.

Listen to the album on iTunes!

La Nuova Musica “is led by David Bates with passion, vitality, transparency, and crisp, sharp attacks…. Star soprano Lucy Crowe shows up for the Vivaldi motet, wildly acrobatic and embellished, with a dashing attack on the opening text” - HANDEL. VIVALDI. Dixit Dominus in Stereophile Magazine. 
Available now on iTunes.

La Nuova Musica “is led by David Bates with passion, vitality, transparency, and crisp, sharp attacks…. Star soprano Lucy Crowe shows up for the Vivaldi motet, wildly acrobatic and embellished, with a dashing attack on the opening text” - HANDEL. VIVALDI. Dixit Dominus in Stereophile Magazine.

Available now on iTunes.