Classical

With enchanting works from composers such as Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel, performances from French classical artists including Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Julia Fuchs, and romantic works evocative of French history and culture, French Classical Selections offers an assortment of classical repertoire from and about France. This compilation is the second in a series of country focused selections, including selections from Britain and Germany.

Roeland Jacobs, Jan Vereecke, Rob van Weelde and PIAS Netherlands/Belgium cordially invite you to attend the world première of the album "THE SEVEN SYMPHONIES", a classical tribute to Beach Boys Music. This concerns newly arranged compositions that were recorded by the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra.

Classical Flamenco is the first album to be released at NativeDSD by HR Recordings. It features guitarist Esteban Gonda in a new DXD recording. The album features a selection of Classical Flamenco music from traditional Spanish flamenco composers before Paco de Lucía. These are real classics of the most pure Spanish flamenco guitar. Music by masters like Sabicas, Mario Escudero, Niño Ricardo, Esteban de Sanlúcar, Manolo Sanlúcar. Along with two original compositions by Esteban Gonda. A real discovery from the very young new classical flamenco guitar player.

Barbra Streisand is one of the most distinguished pop singers of our generation. She showed there was no limit to her talents when she released "Classical Barbra". The masterpiece is her groundbreaking classical crossover album from 1976. It made a definitive statement in the classical music realm. Glenn Gould praised her voice as “one of the natural wonders of the age, an instrument of infinite diversity and timbral resource”. It remains one of the first and still one of the greatest records we know today as “classical crossover”. Nominated for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist at the GRAMMYS, the album would go on to be certified gold.

With delights from composers such as Sir Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams, performances from UK classical artists including Dame Sarah Connolley and Ian Bostridge, and stunning works evocative of the great British landscape, British Classical Selections offers an eclectic insight into classical repertoire from and about Great Britain. This compilation is the first in a series of country focused selections, including selections from France and Germany.

The music of Samuel Adler – born in Mannheim in 1928 but long since one of the leading figures of American music – has its roots in the Neo-Classical clarity of composers like Copland and Hindemith, who were among his teachers. The works on this album arose from a range of impulses: a Neo-Baroque concerto grosso and a tribute to Bach encase a series of tributes to lost individuals and traditions; and two jeux d’esprit – Ives’ tongue-in-cheek Variations on America and Holst’s ‘Jupiter’ from The Planets – both bring jollity in Adler’s idiomatic arrangements for string orchestra.

n album of brand new, lush recordings of the world's favorite songs from beloved Disney films such as The Lion King, Frozen, and Toy Story, Disney Goes Classical was recorded by the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and features special guest artists Matteo Bocelli, Renee Fleming, and more.

While his first critically acclaimed album “It’s a Long Way to Happiness” exceeds 8 million streams, the beginning of 2022 looks very busy for Alban Claudin who is putting the finishing touches to the soundtrack of Guillaume Gouix’s first movie “Amore Mio” (to be released next fall), prepares new concerts and gets ready to tour again with the French star Clara Luciani.