.@ATharaud and @JarousskyPhil perform Gabriel Pierne’s charming Barcarolle from the recently released ‘Four Hands’ album 🎹🎹 featuring a whole host of magical keyboard collaborations. 🎧 w.lnk.to/4hands

We’re delighted to see Li appear on the cover of Spotify’s Classical New Release playlist for this week. Hear his recording of Schumann’s Arabesque in C Major along with a whole host of other new tracks.
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OUT NOW on Gautier Capuçon’s new album Destination Paris, Joe Dassin’s song Les Champs-Élysées - an adaptation of 'Waterloo Road', written by Mike Wilsh and Mike Deighan. Performed here with Orchestre de chambre de Paris.

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In the third movement of his fifth symphony, Bruckner contrasts urgent exuberance with pastoral lyricism in a captivating score brought alive in this recording by the Rotterdam Phil conducted by Lahav Shani. 🎧 w.lnk.to/bru5TW

Schumann’s introspective Arabeske in C Major, Op.18 opens George Li’s forthcoming new album ‘Movements’. The piece’s dancelike spirit is woven through its many different scenes, all evoking an enchanting image full of reverie. 🎧 w.lnk.to/movements

Thrills and spills from pianist Mariam Batsashvili in Rossini’s 'Péchés de vieillesse' (in the style of Offenbach), one of a collection of virtuosic treats that make up her album of ‘Encores’. 🎧 w.lnk.to/rpechTW

Rachmaninov’s much-loved Vocalise fuses melancholic melody with poignant harmonic progressions. This arrangement for piano and cello is performed by Duo Shum, who brings out the emotional depth of this beautifully crafted piece.

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🎹 Sat 18 May at Piano City Milano: Turkish pianist and composer Büşra Kayıkçı performs pieces from her prepared piano album “Places” - a haunting industrial soundscape decorated with fascinating intricate details.
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This Sat, 11AM CET at Piano City Milano, composer and pianist JB Dunckel performs tracks from his new work ‘Paranormal Musicality’ - a collection of uplifting, sometimes wistful, keyboard improvisations for the present day. 🗓️ bit.ly/4dEf9B7 🎧 w.lnk.to/parmus

From NOW until 31 May, discover @Kevin_Puts 'The Hours' at Metropolitan Opera. Also available to stream on Apple Music Classical.

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In 'Blackbird' from 'The Other Side', Thomas Dunford worked with Grammy award-winning sound engineer Sam Okell who remixed new versions of Beatles tracks. “I couldn’t have dreamt of a more wonderful person to mix my first songs with,' says Dunford 🎧 w.lnk.to/tothsideTW

OUT NOW on LP: Anne-Sophie Mutter’s recording of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, captured early on in the violinist’s career just before turning 21 years old, with legendary Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa and Orchestre National de France. #classicalmusic #vinyl

“This was something I’d had in mind for a long time …” says pianist Alexandre Tharaud about his 'Four Hands' album. Here, cellist Gautier CAPUÇON puts down his bow and steps up to the keyboard for the 'Prestidigitateur chinois' from Satie's Parade. 🎧 w.lnk.to/4hands

🎹 From @aurelienpontier's 'Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse', Rachmaninoff's lavishly virtuosic 'Polka de WR' - one of many tracks on the pianist's forthcoming album 'encompassing a celebration of Viennese joie de vivre.” 🎧 w.lnk.to/vjaTW

Brahms’s contemplative Intermezzo No.1 in E flat Op.117/1 combines sweet melodies, unexpected harmonies and a reassuring lilt. This track completes Fazıl Say’s album of piano music inspired by the evening, also out today. 🎧 w.lnk.to/evening

The celebrated relationship between Shokhakimov and the @opstrasbourg is evident in this upcoming release feat. Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. Released today is the elegant minuet from Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. 🎧 w.lnk.to/sprokofiev #prokofiev #classicalmusic #orchestra

RELEASED TODAY: ‘The Other Side’ from Thomas Dunford is out today: it has been a wonderful adventure to bring this music to you made with love and passion, thank you for joining me on this new musical journey.” 🎧 w.lnk.to/tothsideTW

COMING SOON from Thomas Dunford and Doug Baillet. Working with sound engineer Aurélien Marotte, they found 'a beautiful sound and editing at a phenomenal speed, we were fueling each other’s creative ideas with Aurélien and Doug as a dynamic trio.' OUT May 10.

More Tchaikovsky celebrations today with a new LP release of selected from the Philharmonia, Philadelphia, Gewandhausorchester, Berlin Philharmoniker, and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra: a total of 51 minutes illustrating the musical embodiment of 19th-century Russian Romanticism.

To celebrate Tchaikovsky's birth today in 1840, Alexandre Tharaud and Alexander Melnikov are a spellbinding combination in in Tharaud’s Four Hands album, here in a duet arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Spell’ from The Sleeping Beauty. 🎹🎹

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