Artists

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca · 4557982 · 3 hours 50 minutes Ashkenazy knows this music from the inside out, having…

Géza Anda (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm Prospero Classical · PROSP0100 · 79 minutes There’s something magnetic about hearing…

Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violin) ECM · 4818558 · 2 hours 6 minutes Zehetmair recorded these six works once before, decades ago,…

Karita Mattila (soprano) & Martin Katz (piano) Ondine · ODE1100-5 · 76 minutes There’s something electric about hearing Mattila on home…

Martha Argerich (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani Avanti · AVA10662 · 50 minutes Argerich pairing with Lahav Shani feels like…

Wilhelm Kempff (piano) Deutsche Grammophon · 4765318 · 2 hours 29 minutes Schubert’s piano music lives in a strange emotional territory…

Nigel Kennedy (violin) & Peter Pettinger (piano) Chandos · CHAN8380 · 55 minutes Elgar’s violin music occupies this strange, intimate corner…

Kevin Bowyer (organ) Priory · PRCD1193 · 79 minutes Somewhere between a historical rescue mission and a pure listening pleasure, Green…

Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu (piano) Sony · 88697858112 · 59 minutes There’s something almost miraculous about the way Perahia and…

Isabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Harmonia Mundi · HMM90233536 · 2 hours 23…

Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Sony · 19075854652 · 2 hours 13 minutes Bach’s cello suites have this uncanny ability to feel both…

Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano)Emerson String Quartet Alpha · ALPHA1000 · 72 minutes Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet…

Johan Dalene (violin), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds BIS · BIS2620 · 73 minutes Few pairings make as much sense…

Rachel Podger (violin) Channel Classics · CCSSA35513 · 78 minutes Rachel Podger’s Guardian Angel gathers works by Biber, Walther, Westhoff, and…

Alison Balsom (trumpet), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano)The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock Warner Classics · 4403292 · 66 minutes Purcell…

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim Deutsche Grammophon · 4796038 · 70 minutes Lisa Batiashvili and Barenboim make a dream team…

Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca · 4557982 · 3 hours 50 minutes Ashkenazy conducting the Concertgebouw through all three Rachmaninov symphonies…

Lothar Odinius (tenor), Roxana Constantinescu (alto), Markus Eiche (bass), Letizia Scherrer (soprano), Michael Nagy (bass), Maximilian Schmitt…

Alfred Brendel (piano)Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner Decca · 4425712 · 2 hours 34 minutes Brendel and…

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Deutsche Grammophon · 4745372 · 84 minutes Karajan and the Berlin Phil at the height…