SCHUBERT - LATE PIANO SONATAS

Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi interprets Schubert’s last three piano sonatas (D958-D960) on his PENTATONE debut album, after years of engagement with these extraordinary works.

COMMON PRACTICE

Iverson’s quartet for "Common Practice" features as its prime melodic voice the veteran Tom Harrell, who was voted Trumpeter of the Year in 2018 by the U.S. Jazz Journalists Association. Iverson extols the quality of poetic “vulnerability” in Harrell’s playing, particularly in such ballads as “The Man I Love” and “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” two of the album’s highlights.

FALLA - EL SOMBRERO DE TRES PICOS

THE CREATURES OF PROMETHEUS

Beethoven’s first stage work – a ballet score for a stage production overseen by the dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò, nephew of the composer Luigi Boccherini. The overture remains popular and the finale features the theme later used in the ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Conducted by the eminent Leif Segerstam.

VIOLIN CONCERTOS

In this new concerto album one of the greatest violinist of our time, Christian Tetzlaff, performs two standard violin concertos in fresh new interpretations together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin directed by the orchestra’s exciting new music director, Robin Ticciati.