New Classical Tracks®

In work after work, J. S. Bach gave wonderful solo parts to the oboe. On a new disc, those concertos are gathered together by a master soloist and musician, Heinz Holliger.

Piano dynamo Lang Lang is paying multiple tributes to Franz Liszt in this anniversary year: with a broadcast in movie theaters on Oct. 22, and with this new CD (with a companion DVD due later in the fall).

Franz Liszt wrote some formidably difficult piano music. But on her debut disc, Khatia Buniatishvili argues that his compositions offer much more than mere virtuoso display.

The guitar is a classical instrument--but it's also a jazz instrument, a bossa nova instrument, and so on. On her new disc, Sharon Isbin celebrates her instrument's many lives, with some surprising guest artists.

To play Chopin at the highest level requires years of work and deep knowledge of the music. But the goal, says young pianist Ingolf Wunder, is to make it all sound as spontaneous as possible.

This new disc features pieces by Brahms originally conceived for organ or piano--here reimagined for the lush sonorities of the Canadian Brass.

This new disc introduces a young singer from the Republic of Georgia, still in her 20s, who stepped in for an indisposed star at the last moment. Now she's singing lead roles at the world's foremost opera houses.

A "Firebird" with West African rhythms? Jeremiah Clarke's famous march--deconstructed and reassembled? These are some of the treats on a disc that reimagines classical standards for today's orchestra concerts.

Murray Perahia is one of the world's leading pianists, and his latest release gathers together all of his recordings by the composer who has meant more to him than perhaps any other: J. S. Bach.

Recently the bird watching world was all a flutter when a gray-hooded gull, from possibly Africa or South America, showed up on the shores of Coney Island.