In 2018, three years before his death, the pianist and composer gave a concert in Sardinia that included both Mozart and George Gershwin. A live recording of that concert is now available.


Chick Corea renders Mozart with daring and playfulness on a posthumous new album

Verdi imagined each of his operas painted with a different tincture. Conductor Riccardo Chailly puts together an exciting new album of Verdi's choruses, from his best known to his most obscure.


'Verdi Choruses' showcases the impressive variety of a master's choral music

In 1909, the Russian impresario came to Paris and created a sensation with a company he called the Ballets Russes. A new 22-disc set revisits the music of Diaghilev's legendary ballets.


Collection features almost all the music Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes danced to

Though he never became a household name, many music lovers regard Szigeti, who died in 1973, as the greatest classical violinist in living memory. This new collection captures his early recordings.


New releases help cement the legacy of Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti 

In 1970, Stephen Sondheim's comic musical “Company” broke most of the conventions of American musical theater. Now, a newly restored documentary goes inside the making of the original cast album.


'Original Cast Album: Company' provides a glimpse of Sondheim's perfectionism

Herrmann composed some of the best-known film music ever written — especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Now a new CD shows another side of Herrmann that's equally memorable. 


Composer Bernard Herrmann showcases his range on 'PostClassical Ensemble'

Price, now 93, was the first African American soprano to have a major career at the Metropolitan Opera. Critics and fans agreed that she had one of the most beautiful singing voices they'd ever heard.


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