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Japanese contemporary classical music is a rich tapestry woven from traditional Eastern sounds and the expansive techniques of Western avant-garde composition. The genre often exemplifies a profound synergy between the delicate aesthetics of Japanese culture, such as the use of silence and natural imagery, with cutting-edge experimentation in harmony, texture, and form. Its composers implore diverse instruments, from kotos and shakuhachis to full orchestras and electronics, crafting a sound-world that is both intimately reflective and strikingly expansive. From the cinematic echoes of Ryuichi Sakamoto to the intricate soundscapes of Toru Takemitsu, the genre bends time, blending ancient melodies with the urgency of the modern narrative, charting new territories in the ever-evolving landscape of classical music.

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Palestrina: Song of Songs

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•

Album - 29 Tracks - Released October 2, 2026

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October 2, 2026

Palestrina: Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
29 tracks
September 28

Molfar's Rhapsody
Traditional
1 tracks
September 25

Elevation - Concertos for Harmonica and Piano
Benyamin Nuss•
Konstantin Reinfeld
8 tracks
September 25

Sakamoto: Solitude
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 tracks
September 25

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 6, Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 24

Sacred Music Jewels
Choir of King's College, Cambridge•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Goehr•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arvo Pärt•
Basil Harwood•
Benjamin Britten•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Christopher Tye•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edgar Leslie Bainton•
Edward Bairstow•
Edward Elgar•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Francisco Guerrero•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Xaver Gruber•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Gerald Finzi•
Giovanni Gabrieli•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Girolamo Frescobaldi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Hans Leo Hassler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Balfour Gardiner•
Henry John Gauntlett•
Henry Purcell•
Henryk Górecki•
Herbert Howells•
Hubert Parry•
Igor Stravinsky
170 tracks
September 22

La Rosa de los Vientos. Un Mar de Melodías
Traditional
17 tracks
September 18

Pärt: Passacaglia
Arvo Pärt•
Gidon Kremer•
Geneva Lewis•
Andrei Pushkarev•
Kremerata Baltica
1 tracks
September 18

Kolo Vivo (Arr. for String Quartet by Eric Mouret & Raphaël Maillet)
Traditional•
Quatuor Zaïde
1 tracks
September 18

12 Conversations
alva noto•
Ryuichi Sakamoto
16 tracks
September 11

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 28, Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 11

Ceremony
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer•
Christopher Rouse•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Toshio Hosokawa
14 tracks
September 11

The 100 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Jacques Offenbach•
Jeremiah Clarke•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss I•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Léo Delibes•
Manuel de Falla•
Max Bruch•
Mikhail Glinka•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Richard Rodgers•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Robert Schumann•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 11

Ceremony
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer•
Christopher Rouse•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Toshio Hosokawa
14 tracks
September 5

Sri Ganesha Ashtottara Shatanamavali
Traditional
1 tracks
September 4

Spirit, Body and Soul: Concert Spirituals for Solo Piano
Traditional
9 tracks
September 4

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
24 tracks
August 28

The 100 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music
Berliner Philharmoniker•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Schubert•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean Sibelius•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
Joseph Haydn•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Robert Schumann•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
August 28

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini•
Julia Doyle
1 tracks
August 28

100 Best Film Classics
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Alan Silvestri•
Alfredo Catalani•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Erik Satie•
Franz Schubert•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Howard Shore•
Jacques Offenbach•
James Horner•
Johann Pachelbel•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Leonard Bernstein•
Maurice Jarre•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Thomas Newman•
Tomaso Albinoni•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
100 tracks
August 26

Conversation 6
alva noto•
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 tracks
August 25

Sharanu Sharanu
Traditional
1 tracks
August 22

Luigi Boccherini for Gaming
Traditional
9 tracks
August 17

Khachar Bhitor Achin Pakhi - Pakhi Kokhon Jani Mashup
Iman Chakraborty•
Traditional
1 tracks
August 14

Relaxing on the Beach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Agustín Barrios Mangoré•
Alessandro Marcello•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexandre Tansman•
Clara Schumann•
Domenico Gabrielli•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Gregorio Allegri•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Leo Brouwer•
Ludovico Einaudi•
Manuel Ponce•
Marin Marais•
Michael Nyman•
Mily Balakirev•
Pietro Mascagni•
Reynaldo Hahn•
Tomaso Albinoni•
Toru Takemitsu•
William Walton
89 tracks
August 14

Claves medii aevi
Anonymous•
西山まりえ
22 tracks
August 14

Rouse: Flute Concerto: V. Amhrán
Christopher Rouse•
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer
1 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 7

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
August 7

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 (Live)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra•
Seiji Ozawa
10 tracks
August 1

Summer Solace
Traditional•
Anonymous
41 tracks
August 1

Relaxing Blue
Traditional•
Anonymous
45 tracks
August 1

Wildflowers Sleep
Traditional•
Anonymous
53 tracks
August 1

Quiet Blossoms
Traditional•
Anonymous
39 tracks
August 1

Coastal Calm
Traditional•
Anonymous
40 tracks
July 31

Sunkissed Meadow
Traditional•
Anonymous
58 tracks
July 31

Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
Gustav Holst•
New Philharmonia Orchestra•
Sir Adrian Boult
7 tracks
July 31

Soft Canopy
Traditional•
Anonymous
40 tracks
July 31

Chiri Chuki Pahu Phuti
Traditional
1 tracks

October 2, 2026

Palestrina: Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
29 tracks
September 25

Elevation - Concertos for Harmonica and Piano
Benyamin Nuss•
Konstantin Reinfeld
8 tracks
September 24

Sacred Music Jewels
Choir of King's College, Cambridge•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Goehr•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arvo Pärt•
Basil Harwood•
Benjamin Britten•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Christopher Tye•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edgar Leslie Bainton•
Edward Bairstow•
Edward Elgar•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Francisco Guerrero•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Xaver Gruber•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Gerald Finzi•
Giovanni Gabrieli•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Girolamo Frescobaldi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Hans Leo Hassler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Balfour Gardiner•
Henry John Gauntlett•
Henry Purcell•
Henryk Górecki•
Herbert Howells•
Hubert Parry•
Igor Stravinsky
170 tracks
September 22

La Rosa de los Vientos. Un Mar de Melodías
Traditional
17 tracks
September 18

12 Conversations
alva noto•
Ryuichi Sakamoto
16 tracks
September 11

Ceremony
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer•
Christopher Rouse•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Toshio Hosokawa
14 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 11

The 100 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Claude Debussy•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Jacques Offenbach•
Jeremiah Clarke•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss I•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Léo Delibes•
Manuel de Falla•
Max Bruch•
Mikhail Glinka•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Richard Rodgers•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Robert Schumann•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
September 11

Ceremony
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer•
Christopher Rouse•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Toshio Hosokawa
14 tracks
September 4

Spirit, Body and Soul: Concert Spirituals for Solo Piano
Traditional
9 tracks
September 4

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
24 tracks
August 28

100 Best Film Classics
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Alan Silvestri•
Alfredo Catalani•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Charlie Chaplin•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edward Elgar•
Ennio Morricone•
Erik Satie•
Franz Schubert•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Howard Shore•
Jacques Offenbach•
James Horner•
Johann Pachelbel•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Leonard Bernstein•
Maurice Jarre•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Stanley Myers•
Thomas Newman•
Tomaso Albinoni•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
100 tracks
August 28

The 100 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music
Berliner Philharmoniker•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Anton Bruckner•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Béla Bartók•
Carl Orff•
Charles Gounod•
Claude Debussy•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Franz Schubert•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Hector Berlioz•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jean Sibelius•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Strauss II•
Johannes Brahms•
Joseph Haydn•
Leonard Bernstein•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Wagner•
Robert Schumann•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
August 22

Luigi Boccherini for Gaming
Traditional
9 tracks
August 14

Relaxing on the Beach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Agustín Barrios Mangoré•
Alessandro Marcello•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexandre Tansman•
Clara Schumann•
Domenico Gabrielli•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Gregorio Allegri•
Jean-Baptiste Lully•
Leo Brouwer•
Ludovico Einaudi•
Manuel Ponce•
Marin Marais•
Michael Nyman•
Mily Balakirev•
Pietro Mascagni•
Reynaldo Hahn•
Tomaso Albinoni•
Toru Takemitsu•
William Walton
89 tracks
August 14

Claves medii aevi
Anonymous•
西山まりえ
22 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 7

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 - R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 (Live)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra•
Seiji Ozawa
10 tracks
August 1

Relaxing Blue
Traditional•
Anonymous
45 tracks
August 1

Summer Solace
Traditional•
Anonymous
41 tracks

September 28, 2026

Molfar's Rhapsody
Traditional
1 tracks
September 25

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 6, Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 25

Sakamoto: Solitude
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 tracks
September 18

Pärt: Passacaglia
Arvo Pärt•
Gidon Kremer•
Geneva Lewis•
Andrei Pushkarev•
Kremerata Baltica
1 tracks
September 18

Kolo Vivo (Arr. for String Quartet by Eric Mouret & Raphaël Maillet)
Traditional•
Quatuor Zaïde
1 tracks
September 11

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 28, Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 5

Sri Ganesha Ashtottara Shatanamavali
Traditional
1 tracks
August 28

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini•
Julia Doyle
1 tracks
August 26

Conversation 6
alva noto•
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 tracks
August 25

Sharanu Sharanu
Traditional
1 tracks
August 17

Khachar Bhitor Achin Pakhi - Pakhi Kokhon Jani Mashup
Iman Chakraborty•
Traditional
1 tracks
August 14

Rouse: Flute Concerto: V. Amhrán
Christopher Rouse•
Emmanuel Pahud•
Dresdner Philharmonie•
Jonathan Stockhammer
1 tracks
August 7

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
July 31

Chiri Chuki Pahu Phuti
Traditional
1 tracks
July 25

Main Mor Hoon
Traditional
1 tracks
July 24

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 1, Deus in adiutorium meum intende
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
July 18

Raga Yaman Kalyan
Traditional•
Ravi Shankar
1 tracks
July 14

Conversation 3
alva noto•
Ryuichi Sakamoto
1 tracks
June 29

Bantureethi Koluvu
Traditional
1 tracks
June 24

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Johannes Brahms•
Gidon Kremer•
Herbert von Karajan•
Berliner Philharmoniker
3 tracks