For his first non-Chopin recording, YUNDI turns to repertoire from his native China on The Red Piano. Anchored by The Yellow River Concerto, the release also features traditional Chinese songs which have been arranged to reflect the lush Romantic tradition in which Yundi excels.

Long recognized as an outstanding chamber musician, Anthony Marwood has more recently been making waves as a concerto soloist, with two contributions to the Romantic Violin Concerto series and now a disc of Britten with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. The youthful Violin Concerto, with its mix of anguished lyricism and changeability of mood nods to both Berg (whose own Violin Concerto had made a profound impression on Britten) and Prokofiev but the result is entirely personal.

"My first collaboration with Claudio Abbado - with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 2008 - opened my eyes to a new way of understanding and experiencing the Beethoven Violin Concerto. He then expressed the wish to perform Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, this time with the Orchestra Mozart. It seemed to him to be an obvious and natural continuation of the project to record these two works in further rehearsals and in concert and to produce a CD of them".

Another orchestral tour de force from Sascha Goetzel and this outstanding orchestra: after their acclaimed debut recording for ONYX of Respighi, Florent Schmitt and Hindemith, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic and their charismatic Viennese music director have devised a fascinating programme of ballet music composed during the turbulent inter-war years of the 20th century.

Following the critical success of his solo album 'Virtuoso' for which Ray Chen received the prestigious German Echo Klassik Award 2011 and outstanding reviews, Sony Classical releases the young violinist's first concerto-recording on the label. On this release Ray combines the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn violin concertos.

Most record labels begin with a need to fill a niche. When Swedish label BIS was founded in 1973, it seems to have found any number of musical niches to fill. A musical chameleon was born, a label that meant different things to different - and usually passionate - devotees. The multi-buy on these BIS orchestral titles can be included with the multi-buy available on all the BIS catalogue.
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Berlin Classics can be described as the forum for many important historical recordings of important contributions to the musical centers of Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin as well as major new productions with established and emerging young artists.
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