OPUS KLASSIK has released its list of nominations for the 2026 awards. Among them are two albums from the Naxos Music Group.

Is modern classical music ugly? Why bother with contemporary music at all? Jens and Joe take the example of Aribert Reimann, fearsomely modern on his own, and discuss the merits (and lack thereof) of tackling his re-scoring of Mendelssohn Songs for String Quartet…

In this episode of Classical Discoveries, Jens and Joe tackle Bohuslav Martinů. Specifically, they look at the six (minimally strange) symphonies of this (endlessly fascinating) composer, which he wrote in the U.S. for the great American symphony orchestras.

Portuguese composer and conductor Álvaro Cassuto has died aged 87.

Easter is coming – and it coincides this year with “C.P.Eppreciation Day!”

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is Mantovana, a short piece by Italian guitarist/composer Francesco Corbetta.

Naxos Deutschland Musik & Video Vertriebs-GmbH, a global leader in classical music distribution, and Sony Music Germany’s classical label Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM), are proud to announce a comprehensive global partnership.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792), a leading musical personality in Weimar for nearly 30 years…

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is from the Bassoon Concerto by Finnish composer, journalist and writer Jouni Kaipainen (b. 1956).

When you hear ‘Engelbert Humperdinck’, you’ll invariably either think of the King of Romance’s hit ballad “Release Me” (in which case you’ve got the wrong Humperdinck, as far as we are concerned)…

This week’s pick from the Musiques Suisses catalogue is from the Second String Quartet by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957).

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label spotlights a piano concerto by Leopold Koželuch, born in Velvary, north-west of Prague in 1747…

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is an orchestral miniature by Elgar, music that represents a less familiar side to his work but nonetheless imparts engaging, wistful charm and immediate melodic appeal.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label is from a recording of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label presents the finale from Beethoven’s String Quintet, Op. 4, published in 1796.

The Jury of the 2026 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) recently announced their roster of winners.

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is Tangonator, a piece for violin and piano composed by Finnish jazz pianist Iiro Rantala (b. 1970).

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is lo godo, rido e spero, an aria from Handel’s solo cantata, Un’alma innamorata.

In this episode, Jens & Joe tackle Franz Schreker, the missing link between Schoenberg and Zemlinsky – and a composer of wildly Freudian fairy-tale operas that were all the rage between the wars.

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label is Robert Schumann’s dramatic, declamatory setting of a poem by Heinrich Heine, Belsazar (Belshazzar).

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is a performance of Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio, specifically the second of its two movements, Fiery Red.