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Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne

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Renaud Capuçon•

Nicholas Angelich•

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March 27, 2026

Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne
Ernest Chausson•
Renaud Capuçon•
Nicholas Angelich•
Quatuor Ébène
1 tracks
March 27

Spring Sonatas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Aaron Copland•
Adrian Le Roy•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alfonso X El Sabio•
Alfredo Catalani•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Anonymous•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Antônio Carlos Jobim•
Arrigo Boito•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Somervell•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Christian Sinding•
Clara Schumann•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Colin Muset•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Eric Coates•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Frank Loesser•
Franz Lehár
132 tracks
March 26

The Menuhin Century - The Historic Recordings
Yehudi Menuhin•
Claude Debussy•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Andrzej Panufnik•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Cole Porter•
Edward Elgar•
Ernest Bloch•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Fritz Kreisler•
George Gershwin•
Irving Berlin•
Jacob Gade•
Jerome Kern•
Jimmy McHugh•
Johannes Brahms•
Malcolm Williamson•
Niccolò Paganini•
Pablo de Sarasate•
Paul Ben-Haim•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ravi Shankar•
Richard Rodgers•
Robert Schumann•
Ross Lee Finney•
Roy Harris•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Traditional•
Vincent Youmans•
William Walton
206 tracks
March 20

Ravel Paris 2025 (Extended Version)
Maurice Ravel•
Cristian Măcelaru•
Orchestre National De France•
Choeur de Radio France
47 tracks
March 19

Bach: The Six Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Paul Tortelier
43 tracks
March 13

Fauré: Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse
Gabriel Fauré•
Pascal Rogé•
Elena Font
1 tracks
March 13

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, GMW 10: No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
Gustav Mahler•
Stéphane Degout•
L'Atelier de musique•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
March 13

Glass: Truman Sleeps (Music from the motion picture "The Truman Show")
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
March 6

Fauré: En prière
Gabriel Fauré•
Cyrille Dubois•
Brussels Philharmonic•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
February 27

Life Stories
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
21 tracks
February 21

Chausson: Quelques danses, Op. 26 - 5 Fantaisies, Op. 1
Ernest Chausson
9 tracks
February 20

Glass: Glassworks: I. Opening Piece
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
February 16

Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Felix Mendelssohn•
Paul Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau
8 tracks
February 13

Torrid Classics - Voluptuous Music for Passionate Nights
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Adam de la Halle•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Knaifel•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anonymous•
Anton Rubinstein•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arthur Bliss•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bernard Herrmann•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Wakefield Cadman•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudin de Sermisy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Clément Janequin•
Cole Porter•
César Cui•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Duke Ellington•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Eugène Ysaÿe•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin
117 tracks
February 13

The Man I Love
George Gershwin•
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
1 tracks
February 6

Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Maurice Ravel•
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya•
Ludovic Morlot
15 tracks
January 30

Massenet: Songs with Orchestra – II
Jules Massenet•
Pierre Dumoussaud
24 tracks
January 30

Poulenc
Francis Poulenc•
Pascal Rogé•
Lidy Blijdorp•
Elena Font
18 tracks
January 30

Poulenc: Banalités, FP 107: II. Hotel
Francis Poulenc•
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
1 tracks
January 23

Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: IV. Epilogue. Allegro giocoso
Francis Poulenc•
Elena Font•
Pascal Rogé
1 tracks
January 23

La Cinquième Saison
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
17 tracks
January 23

Vaughan Williams: Landscapes
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
50 tracks
January 20

Winter Adagios
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Albert Roussel•
Alessandro Marcello•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Glazunov•
André Caplet•
Anton Arensky•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonio Rosetti•
Antonio Salieri•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arcangelo Corelli•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Honegger•
Baldassare Galuppi•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Charles-Marie Widor•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Fanny Mendelssohn•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Benda•
Franz Krommer•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giovanni Battista Viotti
101 tracks
January 16

Nostalgie du ciel
Ernest Chausson
10 tracks
January 16

Constellations
Ensemble Ouranos
15 tracks
January 16

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge No. 1, On Wenlock Edge
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
1 tracks
January 16

Sonata for 4 Hands, FP 8: II. Rustique. Naïf et lent
Francis Poulenc•
Pascal Rogé•
Elena Font
1 tracks
January 16

Sohy: Symphony in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10 "Grande Guerre": III. Vif - Plus lent - A tempo
Charlotte Sohy•
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine•
Bar Avni
1 tracks
January 9

Apparailly: La Cinquième Saison, Op. 15: I. Le Secret des feuilles: L'esprit de la forêt
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
1 tracks
January 9

Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte
Nadia Boulanger•
Talea Ensemble•
Neal Goren•
Melissa Harvey
22 tracks
January 9

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel No. 1, The Vagabond
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
1 tracks
January 2

Massenet: Sainte Thérèse prie
Jules Massenet•
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
December 26, 2025

Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31: I. Slow and Indolent
Samuel Barber•
Ensemble Ouranos
1 tracks
December 19

Apparailly: La Cinquième Saison, Op. 15: II. La Source: La rivière des soupirs 2
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
1 tracks
December 17

Ecrits dans une sorte de langue étrangère
Anne-Lise Gastaldi•
Charles Heisser
14 tracks
December 17

Mahler intime
Anne-Lise Gastaldi
10 tracks
December 12

Knef: Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen
Fatma Said•
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
1 tracks

March 27, 2026

Spring Sonatas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Aaron Copland•
Adrian Le Roy•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alfonso X El Sabio•
Alfredo Catalani•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Anonymous•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Antônio Carlos Jobim•
Arrigo Boito•
Arthur Bliss•
Arthur Somervell•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Christian Sinding•
Clara Schumann•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Colin Muset•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Déodat de Séverac•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Eric Coates•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Frank Bridge•
Frank Loesser•
Franz Lehár
132 tracks
March 26

The Menuhin Century - The Historic Recordings
Yehudi Menuhin•
Claude Debussy•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Andrzej Panufnik•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Cole Porter•
Edward Elgar•
Ernest Bloch•
Ernest Chausson•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Fritz Kreisler•
George Gershwin•
Irving Berlin•
Jacob Gade•
Jerome Kern•
Jimmy McHugh•
Johannes Brahms•
Malcolm Williamson•
Niccolò Paganini•
Pablo de Sarasate•
Paul Ben-Haim•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ravi Shankar•
Richard Rodgers•
Robert Schumann•
Ross Lee Finney•
Roy Harris•
Stéphane Grappelli•
Traditional•
Vincent Youmans•
William Walton
206 tracks
March 20

Ravel Paris 2025 (Extended Version)
Maurice Ravel•
Cristian Măcelaru•
Orchestre National De France•
Choeur de Radio France
47 tracks
March 19

Bach: The Six Cello Suites, BWV 1007 - 1012
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Paul Tortelier
43 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
March 10

Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, The Swan, Allegro appassionato, Caprice, Le déluge & Wedding Cake
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Paul Tortelier•
Yan Pascal Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau•
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra•
Louis Frémaux
11 tracks
February 27

Life Stories
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
21 tracks
February 21

Chausson: Quelques danses, Op. 26 - 5 Fantaisies, Op. 1
Ernest Chausson
9 tracks
February 16

Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Felix Mendelssohn•
Paul Tortelier•
Maria De La Pau
8 tracks
February 13

Torrid Classics - Voluptuous Music for Passionate Nights
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Adam de la Halle•
Albert Roussel•
Alexander Knaifel•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anonymous•
Anton Rubinstein•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Arthur Bliss•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bernard Herrmann•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Wakefield Cadman•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Claude Le Jeune•
Claudin de Sermisy•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Clément Janequin•
Cole Porter•
César Cui•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Duke Ellington•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Ernest Chausson•
Eugène Ysaÿe•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Florent Schmitt•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Frédéric Chopin
117 tracks
February 6

Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Maurice Ravel•
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya•
Ludovic Morlot
15 tracks
January 30

Massenet: Songs with Orchestra – II
Jules Massenet•
Pierre Dumoussaud
24 tracks
January 30

Poulenc
Francis Poulenc•
Pascal Rogé•
Lidy Blijdorp•
Elena Font
18 tracks
January 23

Vaughan Williams: Landscapes
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
50 tracks
January 23

La Cinquième Saison
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
17 tracks
January 20

Winter Adagios
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Albert Roussel•
Alessandro Marcello•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Glazunov•
André Caplet•
Anton Arensky•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonio Rosetti•
Antonio Salieri•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arcangelo Corelli•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Honegger•
Baldassare Galuppi•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Charles-Marie Widor•
Charles-Valentin Alkan•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Erich Wolfgang Korngold•
Erik Satie•
Fanny Mendelssohn•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Benda•
Franz Krommer•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giovanni Battista Viotti
101 tracks
January 16

Constellations
Ensemble Ouranos
15 tracks
January 16

Nostalgie du ciel
Ernest Chausson
10 tracks
January 9

Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte
Nadia Boulanger•
Talea Ensemble•
Neal Goren•
Melissa Harvey
22 tracks

March 27, 2026

Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21: II. Sicilienne
Ernest Chausson•
Renaud Capuçon•
Nicholas Angelich•
Quatuor Ébène
1 tracks
March 13

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, GMW 10: No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
Gustav Mahler•
Stéphane Degout•
L'Atelier de musique•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
March 13

Fauré: Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse
Gabriel Fauré•
Pascal Rogé•
Elena Font
1 tracks
March 13

Glass: Truman Sleeps (Music from the motion picture "The Truman Show")
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
March 6

Fauré: En prière
Gabriel Fauré•
Cyrille Dubois•
Brussels Philharmonic•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
February 20

Glass: Glassworks: I. Opening Piece
Philip Glass•
Célia Oneto Bensaid
1 tracks
February 13

The Man I Love
George Gershwin•
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
1 tracks
January 30

Poulenc: Banalités, FP 107: II. Hotel
Francis Poulenc•
Claire Booth•
Jâms Coleman
1 tracks
January 23

Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: IV. Epilogue. Allegro giocoso
Francis Poulenc•
Elena Font•
Pascal Rogé
1 tracks
January 16

Sonata for 4 Hands, FP 8: II. Rustique. Naïf et lent
Francis Poulenc•
Pascal Rogé•
Elena Font
1 tracks
January 16

Sohy: Symphony in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 10 "Grande Guerre": III. Vif - Plus lent - A tempo
Charlotte Sohy•
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine•
Bar Avni
1 tracks
January 16

Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge No. 1, On Wenlock Edge
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
1 tracks
January 9

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel No. 1, The Vagabond
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Cyrille Dubois•
Anne Le Bozec•
Louis Rodde
1 tracks
January 9

Apparailly: La Cinquième Saison, Op. 15: I. Le Secret des feuilles: L'esprit de la forêt
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
1 tracks
January 2

Massenet: Sainte Thérèse prie
Jules Massenet•
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur•
Pierre Dumoussaud
1 tracks
December 26, 2025

Barber: Summer Music, Op. 31: I. Slow and Indolent
Samuel Barber•
Ensemble Ouranos
1 tracks
December 19

Apparailly: La Cinquième Saison, Op. 15: II. La Source: La rivière des soupirs 2
Julien Martineau•
Orchestre Victor Hugo•
Jean-François Verdier
1 tracks
December 12

Knef: Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen
Fatma Said•
Les Frivolités Parisiennes
1 tracks
December 5

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110 : II. Allegro molto
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Ensemble Ouranos
1 tracks
November 28

Boulanger, Pugno: La ville morte, Act III: Vous me voyez, mes soeurs, voyez !
Nadia Boulanger•
Talea Ensemble•
Neal Goren•
Melissa Harvey
1 tracks