Electro pioneers Tangerine Dream had a dozen top 20 albums on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s, and scored some of Hollywood’s biggest 1980s movies. Side 1 of this clear vinyl 12’’ EP features 2 tracks from best-selling game Grand Theft Auto V, which took just three days to hit one billion dollars in retail sales. This instalment featured the first original score in the GTA series, composed by Tangerine Dream amongst other notable names. Happy Ending is a new piece using fragments and ideas of No Happy Endings from the original score. Los Santos City Map is a previously unreleased 2026 re-recording of the infamous music for the game’s pause and navigation screens. The B-side features a new 2026 recording of Love On A Real Train, Tangerine Dream’s best-known track, from 1983 box office smash Risky Business starring Tom Cruise. Mastered at Abbey Road by legendary cutting ace Miles Showell and pressed at Optimal in Germany, the EP is presented in a stylish sleeve by Invisible Hands Music.

For most of his 20s, pianist Sunwoo Yekwon did not play the works of Franz Liszt. He had only played the composer’s pieces — notorious for their complexity — as a middle school student in the way that precocious players often do, forcing themselves to practice “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” (1851) or “Dante Sonata” (1856) to prove that they can overcome the difficulty. But somewhere along the way to Juilliard, the Mannes School of Music and Berlin, Sunwoo stopped playing Liszt. The decision wasn’t purposeful; instead, it simply reflected his lack of interest in the composer.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, was composed in the summer of 1909. The piece was premiered on November 28 of that year in New York City with the composer as soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch. The work has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical piano repertoire.

In May 2026 Metier Records is proud to present Michael Hersch's monumental chamber work Zwischen Leben und Tod (Between Life and Death) performed by violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and pianist Roderick Chadwick, marking the label debut of one of the most gifted composers of his generation.

In 2023 Joe Hisaishi made his triumphant debut on the podium of a sold-out Vienna Musikverein, conducting a programme of his own works. Deutsche Grammophon is now thrilled to announce the release of Joe Hisaishi in Vienna – the world-renowned and multi-award-winning Japanese composer, conductor and pianist’s second album for the Yellow Label. The new recording follows on from his immensely successful DG debut, A Symphonic Celebration – Music from the Studio Ghibli films of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the best-selling classical albums worldwide in 2023.

For their debut album, the Yugen Trio presents what is arguably the cornerstone of the Piano Trio repertoire: Maurice Ravel’s trio, in a vital and highly expressive performance. Ravel’s masterpiece is preceded by the usually claimed ‘father of the piano trio’, Haydn, with his trio in A major, Hob.XV:35, and by one of Shubert’s compositions from his teenage years, the delightfully mozartian trio in B-flat major D. 28. A voyage from the origins to the culmination of the piano trio, brought with sensitivity and intensity by the Yugen Trio.

TALON SMITH: DEBUT showcases the remarkable artistry of the young pianist and composer through two compelling original works.

Zhen Chen's recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 and Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491, performed with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester and conducted by Paul Meyer, is a contrasting project to his earlier recording of Nos. 15 and 21.

Willem Mengelberg (* March 28, 1871 as Joseph Wilhelm Mengelberg in Utrecht; † March 22, 1951 in Zuort, Switzerland) was a Dutch conductor and composer.

The lively and rich musical culture of the German High Baroque was shaped by many composers who have been partially or even completely forgotten today.

Steven Gross’s Soundscapes for Solo Horn journeys through the rich landscapes of Czech and Germanic horn traditions. From the lyrical elegance of Jaroslav Kofroň’s Sonatina to the meditative depths of Bernhard Krol’s Laudatio, each piece reveals the instrument’s expressive power.

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho was the first prize winner at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw one year ago.

Jian Wang is a well-known cellist. His family was musical. He began studying cello with his father at the age of four, and at nine was enrolled in Shanghai Conservatory.

A superstar in her homeland and in high demand worldwide as a soloist, South Korean violinist, Bomsori Kim, presents her solo debut on Deutsche Grammophon. Violin On Stage includes works written for or inspired by opera and ballet.

The sophomore release from the freshly re-imagined Penguin Cafe is the culmination of two years work that has seen Arthur Jeffes - son of original composer and Penguin Cafe Orchestra founder Simon Jeffes - investigate whole new areas of sound and vibrancy, alongside his eclectic collection of musicians and characters, marking an ambitious extension from their debut 'A Matter of Life' (2011). The catalyst for the new recording came about when Jeffes worked on a project with the International Space Orchestra and NASA Ames in 2012, out of which came the pieces Aurora and 1420, which have since been beamed into space as part of NASA's Kepler project. These touchstones marked a satellitic beginning for a new album, a collection of songs that would then return to earth to undertake a rich, cross-continental, musical journey.