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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From the forthcoming album release Renaissance, the latest single of solo piano music by MatteoMyderwyk. With its lilting rhythm ‘Poëta Minora’ exudes an air of solace with its constant, gentle movement. 🎹

OUT NOW: @chamayoub’s exploration of prepared piano, CAGE2: ‘The Unavailable Memory of’ was used in the work of the same name by Merce Cunningham and features many of the defining characteristics of Cage's revolutionary approach to music. 🎧 w.lnk.to/cage2 🎹 🔨🪛🔧

Introducing piano/cello Duo Shum feat. Canadian-Ukrainian pianist Anastasia Rizikov and French-Russian cellist Lisa Strauss, both supported by the Fondation Gautier Capuçon celebrating exceptional young musicians from France and abroad.

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COMING SOON from Thomas Dunford, “an album of my original songs created with my friend Doug Baillet about connection, the cosmos and love - when we finished playing concerts [together] we'd always improvise together and that’s how we started writing.”
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Thank you SPOTIFY for adding on #1 a track from Alexandre Tharaud & Friends' FOUR HANDS album on the Classical New Releases playlist-
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Discover Alexandre Tharaud & Friends' new FOUR HANDS album and his interview on Apple Music
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Robert Townson’s collaboration with Sara Andon, Cécilia Tsan, and Simone Pedroni brings us the ravishing Princess Leia’s theme from Star Wars. 🎧 w.lnk.to/prleiaRW

📆 Join the group in Krakow for a performance of music from the album, May 26.

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OUT NOW: Composer-pianist RIOPY's latest album Meditation 333 is released today on all platforms. Whether 3 or 33 minutes, Meditation 333 offers music for healing and peace, guiding you into a deep meditative space. Listen now. 🎧 w.lnk.to/m333TW

From Alexandre Tharaud's Four Hands piano duets album put together ‘for the sheer pleasure of it’ comes Kurtag’s transcription of JS Bach’s Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit. Tharaud is joined by pianist David Fray in this elegant performance. 🎧 w.lnk.to/4handsTW

RELEASED TODAY: Flautist Emmanuel Pahud’s album Mozart Stories celebrates Mozart in a series of transcriptions for flute and piano. Here Pahud plays the adagio from Violin Sonata K379. Pahud says: “Mozart is the reason why I became a musician.” 🎧 w.lnk.to/mozstorTW

RELEASED TODAY: Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata's multi-faceted album ‘Wonder Women’ celebrating women from 17th century Latin America and Italy. In ‘La Canzone di Cecilia’ -a folk song arranged by Pluhar- the tragic tale of two lovers' fate is told. 🎧 w.lnk.to/wonderwTW

RELEASED TODAY: Alexandre Tharaud’s piano duet project Four Hands - a collaboration with 18 musician friends.

“The piano duet is one of life’s miracles,” says Tharaud. “There is nothing else like it.” 🎧 w.lnk.to/4handsTW

It’s fantastic to see music from @Kevin_Puts's The Hours re-featured on @PandoraMusic’s 21st Century Classical Station ahead of new performance dates at The Met. Access the station via the link (US only). 🎧pandora.app.link/6SKt4AvMNHb

Jakub Józef Orliński adorns the cover of Amazon's Crescendo Playlist this week. Check out tracks by him plus a whole host of other musicians. 🎧 w.lnk.to/jjocres