PentaTone
One of the leading classical music labels in the world, Pentatone presents a diverse range of world-class artists, and is dedicated to premium quality productions captured in exceptional sound. The label works together with today and tomorrow’s leading artists to provide timeless recordings of core, fringe, and lesser-known repertoire, with Pentatone’s uncompromising attention to the best possible quality in artistry, design and recording technology.
The label was founded in the Netherlands in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives, with the ambition to offer classical music in the highest quality including surround sound.
In its first years, Pentatone engaged Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren, in a Grammy-winning recording of Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf (released in Spanish with Antonio Banderas), with Kent Nagano conducting the Russian National Orchestra. Another early success was a recording of the official music performed during the wedding ceremony of the then Dutch crown prince (now king) Willem-Alexander to Máxima Zorreguieta. The Music from the Royal Wedding, sold more than 75,000 copies, thereby attaining the unique “triple platinum” status in the Netherlands.
During its first decade, the label released several award-winning recordings with violinist Julia Fischer and several complete cycles: Beethoven’s symphonies conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, Beethoven’s piano sonatas performed by Mari Kodama, and Bruckner’s symphonies under the baton of Marek Janowski. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher left her mark on these years and continues with several acclaimed recordings. Later, Pentatone recorded Wagner’s ten mature operas, the only such label to take on this task in the 21st century.
From 2013, with a new management team, the label focused on embracing the digital era and expanding its repertoire. New artists and ensembles defined the label’s second decade, including conductors Vladimir Jurowski, René Jacobs and Esa-Pekka Salonen, singers Piotr Beczala, Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camarena, Ian Bostridge and Magdalena Kožená, pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Francesco Piemontesi, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, as well as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Czech Philharmonic.
In recent years, Pentatone has won multiple awards. In 2017, John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles won Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album at the 59th Grammy Awards. Two years later, the premiere recording of the Mason Bates opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, won a Grammy for Best Opera Recording. Pentatone was awarded Label of the Year in 2019 by Gramophone Magazine and in 2020 by the International Classical Music Awards. Pentatone's third decade promises to be even more exciting and innovative as we expand our growing and diverse roster of artists, producing the most thrilling recordings in the world.
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Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E Minor - Stravinsky: Mass
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Jun 5, 2020
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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
Benjamin Appl, Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo Garcia Calvo
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Nov 4, 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Sep 18, 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Primavera III: The Vessel
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Jun 24, 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5 / MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in D minor
Vesko Eschkenazy, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Marco Boni
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Jan 1, 2002
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Song Cycles
Alice Coote, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Marc Albrecht
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by PENTATONE on Jul 1, 2017
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Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier, Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, Koechlin: Bandar-Log
Orchestre Philharmonique De Strasbourg, Marc Albrecht
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Jul 27, 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich : Symphony No.7
Russian National Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Apr 1, 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1, Op.25 (Orch. A. Schoenberg) ...
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Aug 1, 2015
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Parnasso in festa, HWV 73 (Live)
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Opera - Released by PENTATONE on Aug 1, 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Nostalgia
Magdalena Kožená, Yefim Bronfman
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Oct 9, 2021
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Bartók & Kodály : Concertos for Orchestra
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Jakub Hrůša
Symphonic Music - Released by PentaTone on May 18, 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 10
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Jul 6, 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
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Steelant: Antwerp requiem ca. 1650
cantoLX, B'Rock Orchestra, Frank Agsterribe
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Jul 10, 2022
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FRANCK: Symphony in D minor / CHAUSSON: Symphony in B flat major
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Jan 1, 2006
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Tchaikovsky: Hamlet (Complete Incidental Music), Romeo and Juliet
Tatiana Monogarova, Maxim Mikhailov, Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Oct 28, 2008
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Orbit: Music for Solo Cello
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Aug 1, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 (8)
Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Aug 7, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Prokofiev & Khachaturian : Piano Concertos
Nareh Arghamanyan, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Alain Altinoglu
Classical - Released by PENTATONE on Nov 1, 2014
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau (After H. Andersen) [Live]
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
Classical - Released by PentaTone on Jun 26, 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo