Julia Pietrucha

German violinist Julia Fischer is recognized worldwide for possessing a talent of uncommon ability and as an exceptionally gifted artist, reflected in the numerous awards and effusive reviews she has received for both her live performances and recordings, including being named 'Artist of the Year' at The Gramophone Awards in 2007 and 'Instrumentalist of the Year' at the 2009 MIDEM Classical Awards. PentaTone is pleased to present this collection of her critically acclaimed recordings of Mozart's Violin Concertos, packaged together. The set also includes her recording featuring the Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364.

Debut Solo Album From Julia Kugel (The Coathangers). If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?

German violinist Julia Fischer is recognized worldwide for possessing a talent of uncommon ability and as an exceptionally gifted artist, reflected in the numerous awards and effusive reviews she has received for both her live performances and recordings, including being named 'Artist of the Year' at The Gramophone Awards in 2007 and 'Instrumentalist of the Year' at the 2009 MIDEM Classical Awards. PentaTone is pleased to present this collection of her critically acclaimed recordings of Mozart's Violin Concertos, packaged together. The set also includes her recording featuring the Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, K.364.

Australian brother and sister folk/blues team Angus and Julia Stone had last recorded together four years before this 2014 self-titled album was conceived. Even though their last album was a number one hit in Australia, the siblings went their separate ways after its release until they were enticed to reunite at the request of American producer Rick Rubin. The album was recorded over a six month period at Rubin's studio in Malibu, California. Not only did they agree to work together again, they wrote songs together for the first time in their careers.

Julia Kadel recorded Kaskaden – her latest trio work to date – at the historic MPS studio in Villingen in 2019, where jazz legends, such as Oscar Peterson and Friedrich Gulda recorded in the sixties and seventies. Not long after the release of the album, Julia Kadel was awarded the Essener Jazz Pott 2020 for her innovative musical work. The upcoming trio album Powerful Vulnerability was recorded at the not less legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin. The album presents highly exciting, stylistically idiosyncratic and deeply personal music.

The new album, Inner Voice, contains a versatile and colorful repertoire. It contains original compositions (with and without lyrics), contemporary jazz compositions, folk song arrangements, and classical adaptations. The diversity of the repertoire is combined with an intimate sound.

Stars in their native Australia, siblings Angus & Julia Stone have never quite broken through in the US, though it's hard to guess why. Post Malone and Rick Rubin—who co-produced the duo's eponymous 2014 record—are vocal fans, and the Stones play a blend of folk, country and '70s inspired AOR that's made acts like the Head and the Heart and Bon Iver popular. On their fifth album since 2007, there's an undeniable Fleetwood Mac vibe to the great "Losing You" and "Down to the Sea"; dark and mysterious, the latter's fuzzed out Lindsey Buckingham-esque guitar serves an edgy counterpoint to the lush vocals. And the vocals are key here: Julia's baby-doll lilt and Angus's high, gentle style are a natural match that makes each other's songs better. The harmonies shine on “City of Lights" and "County Sign," a countrified waltz with pedal steel and mandolin from co-producer Ben Edgar. On his own, Angus is a bit of a shape-shifter.

Pentatone has another winner of Mendelssohn's two piano trios. Their star violinist Julia Fischer is joined by two other major young artists, pianist Jonathan Gilad, and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in vivid performances of these delightful Mendelssohn works. Wolf Werth and Job Maarse produced this recording which was made in a radio studio in Cologne in February 2006.

Berlin-based pianist Julia Hülsmann returns to the trio format for Sooner And Later, an album which distils the experience of journeys to distant destinations. In the last couple of years Hülsmann, bassist Marc Muellbauer and drummer Heinrich Köbberling have taken their music around the world, from Europe to the North & South America, Central Asia and China, where something special developed. Once again all three members of the trio have contributed compositions to the album. The title of Hulsmann's Thatpujai is an anagram of Jutta Hipp, and its theme is comprised of phrases from the late German jazz pianist's solos. The program is rounded out by a cover of Radiohead's All I Need which, like the Hülsmann-penned tracks J.J., Soon or Mond with their sometimes almost clubby grooves, emphasizes the subtle rhythmic aspects of the trio's music.

This remarkable album marked the recording debut of German violinist Julia Fischer as well as the beginning of her extraordinary partnership with Russian-born conductor Yakov Kreizberg. Julia Fischer was about twenty-one when she made these recordings, which is all the more astonishing because in each work her interpretive acumen, sense of maturity and all encompassing technique are qualities one associates with a seasoned master of this kind of challenging repertory.