This is Ray’s first album of all Mozart repertoire. He’s joined by the renowned Mozart-interpreter Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, who conducts the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra for the concertos and accompanies Ray for the Violin Sonata. The festival orchestra, founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1987 consists of exceptional young instrumentalists who come together for the annual music festival in northern Germany. Ray composed his own cadenzas for both concertos on this recording.

In August 2014 young Swiss tenor Mauro Peter gave a highly acclaimed Lieder recital at the famous Schubert festival 'Schubertiade' in Schwarzenberg, Austria.On the program: famous Schubert songs on poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Such was the success, that Swiss radio DRS2 Kultur immediately took the decision to record this unique recital and asked SONY CLASSICAL to participate in a co-production of the album.

Mit der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach wurde Martin Stadtfeld zum bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten deutschen Pianisten der jungen Generation. Die neue CD von Stadtfeld ist wieder ganz der Musik von Bach gewidmet. Nach dem Bestseller mit Bachs Wohltemperierten Klavier hat Stadtfeld in der faszinierenden Akustik des Konzerthauses Dortmund die Englischen Suiten 1,2 und 3 aufgenommen.

Unbekannte italienische Sakral- und Instrumentalmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Neapel: Das Abchordis Ensemble interpretiert von Gennaro Manna (1715-1779) die Lectio VIII Defunctorum (für Soprano, zwei Violinen und Basso continuo), von Aniello Santangelo (18. Jahrhundert) die Sinfonie in F (für zwei Violinen, Viola und Basso continuo) und das Stabat Mater (für vier Stimmen, mit Geigen, Violetta und Basso Continuo) von Giacomo Sellitto (1701-1763).

After a recording career spanning more than fifty years of classical performances, Placido Domingo fulfills his wish to record an album of famous songs that accompanied his life.

Each volume in the 'Portraits' series is devoted to a French composer who has now largely been forgotten. With performances by many talented artists, it presents a panorama of his works. The 'Portrait' of Félicien David aims to complement the discography already available with world premiere recordings of the composer's works. Among these are a glimpse of his orchestral output, with the Symphony no. 3 and the Overture to his opéra-comique La Perle du Brésil, the work that really launched David on his operatic career.

Monteverdi was a pioneer of the musical style we now call Baroque, but the Mass on this record is in classic Renaissance style and the music might have been written in the 1500s rather than the 1600s. In between the five parts of Monteverdi's Mass, four madrigals have been placed by composers of an earlier generation, who shifted borders at their time and sound chromatic, sometimes enharmonic, or are dramatically charged. They were written before Monteverdi's Mass, but in a more progressive style. Thus, the album gives a surprising insight into the styles of this period and provides an impressive new view onto Monteverdi's monumental "Messa in illo tempore".