The Guarneri Quartet, Dresden Staatskapelle, Alfred Brendel and Henryk Szeryng are among the artists on a box set featuring Beethoven's collected works.

A new box set features the Artemis Quartet's performances of Beethoven's sixteen string quartets.

Two piano sonatas reveal Beethoven at two very different stages in his life and Ott, a 23-year-old German-Japanese pianist, captures their gripping details.

Lang Lang's flamboyant performing style has earned him frequent comparisons to Franz Liszt, so it’s appropriate that he contributes to the composer’s bicentennial with our Album of the Week, "Liszt: My Piano Hero."

The brass section of the Chicago Symphony has just released an album that puts its trademark brilliance in the spotlight, with works by Gabrieli, Bach, Grainger, Prokofiev, Walton and Revueltas.

Jun Märkl and the Orchestre National de Lyon present five diverse works of Debussy originally written for solo and duo-piano in gorgeous orchestrations. Read more and get a free download.

Anna Netrebko has become the Met’s most bankable star but hers was not an overnight success. A new recording celebrates her past decade at the company by gathering nine of her leading operatic roles there. It's our Album of the Week.

As violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter marks 35 years on the concert stage, her label has put together a new two-album set of her career milestones. It's our Album of the Week.

New York guitarist Sharon Isbin's “Guitar Passions” features a cadre of diverse guitar virtuosos including Steve Vai, Stanley Jordan and Nancy Wilson collaborating on a dozen Latin-flavored tracks. It's our Album of the Week.

The Lahti Symphony hails from a small provincial town in Finland. Yet it has made an international splash with a series of acclaimed recordings. Our Album of the Week is the group’s first under its new conductor, Okko Kamu. Discover more and get a free download.

A new recording of Boccherini’s chamber music seeks to rescue the composer’s reputation from being simply a master of frilly dance music. Its fresh and stylish performances make it our Album of the Week.

Violinist Michi Wiancko offers a new collection of pieces by Émile Sauret (1852-1920), a French violin virtuoso who wrote over a hundred works for the instrument. Read more and get a free download from our Album of the Week.

Conductor Gerard Schwarz enlisted several composer friends to take short, well-known classic works and remold them for the 21st century. These seven “echoes” of earlier classics are collected on a new anthology. It's our Album of the Week.

Forget Bach on a harpsichord. Murray Perahia goes old-school, playing Bach's seven keyboard concertos and other works on a modern concert grand. His performances are just out on a 3-CD set. Get a free download from our Album of the Week.

Just in time for the 60th anniversary of the Marlboro Festival in Vermont comes a trio of new concert recordings. Each features one-of-a-kind ensembles. Read more and get a free download.

A welcome new two-CD set collects composer Alexander Glazunov's concertos for violin, piano, cello and saxophone, inventive works that are rooted in a lush, late Romantic style. Read about our Album of the Week and get a free download.

One of the UK's leading mixed-voice choirs, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge pays homage to choral music from across the pond. Our Album of the Week is a collection of 14 pieces by eight American composers.

Franz Liszt's status as a pop-culture phenomenon forms the basis for “Liszt: Wild and Crazy,” our Album of the Week containing some of his most familiar and flamboyant piano music. Read more and get a free download.

WQXR's Album of the Week features the the Chamber Orchestra of New York "Ottorino Respighi" playing lesser-known works of its namesake. Plus, read about the Atlanta Symphony's new collection of music by Christopher Theofanidis and Peter Lieberson.