Sunday Classics

Sunday Classics – January 25, 2026

Spending time with our favorite albums from 2025

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Feico Deutecom Etude No.2 Philip Glass: Etudes for Piano Orange Mountain Music
BBC Concert Orchestra & Dobrinka Tabakova Organum Light Tabakova: Sun Triptych ECM New Series
Nels Cline The Returning Angel Consentrik Quartet Blue Note Records
Alice Sara Ott Nocturne No. 4 in A Major, H 36 John Field: Complete Nocturnes Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Ichiko Aoba tower Luminescent Creatures hermine
La tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion La nuict froide et sombre, LV 578 Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait Alpha Classics
Steven Osbourne Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino Schubert: Piano Sonata & Moments musicaux Hyperion
Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve O Holy Father Nicholas Pärt: And I Heard a Voice… ECM New Series
Concerto Copenhagen, Tõnu Kaljuste & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Berliner Messe (Version for Mixed Choir and String Orchestra): Veni Sancte Spiritus ...Lente Berlin Classics
Ars Nova Copenhagen & Paul Hillier How to Fold the Wind: No. 5, In Parallel Caroline Shaw: How to Fold the Wind - EP Cantaloupe Music
Barbara Hannigan, David Chalmin, Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque O virga mediatrix (Arr. for Soprano, Pianos and Electronic by David Chalmin) Electric Fields Alpha Classics
Maya Beiser Facing North: No. 8, Hocket (Arr. for Cello & Electronics by Maya Beiser) Salt Islandia Music Records
Benjamin Schmid, Salzburg Wind Philharmonic & Hansjörg Angerer Cello Concerto (Version for Violin & Wind Orchestra): II. Idylle Gulda & Weill: Works for Violin & Wind Orchestra Gramola Records
Jeffrey Brooks The Memory Palace The Memory Palace Cantaloupe Music
Calidore String Quartet String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18 No. 1: II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato Beethoven: The Early Quartets Signum Records
La tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion Quam pulchra es, LV 838 Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait Alpha Classics
Bernhard Krol Laudatio Soundscapes for Solo Horn by Czech & German Masters Navona
Kronos Quartet Fólk fær andlit Forgive Us For Phenotypic Recordings
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker & Martin Heimchen Sonata for Cello in D Minor, Op. 40: III. Largo From Eastern Europe Alpha Classics
Joe Hisaishi, The Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo & Future Orchestra Classics The Desert Music: IIIa. slow Joe Hisaishi Conducts Universal Music LLC
Hildur Guðnadóttir Fólk fær andlit (2025) Where to From Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Jan Lisiecki Préludes: II. Chant d'extase dans un paysage triste Preludes by Chopin, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Górecki Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Javier Perianes Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Minor, K. 128 Scarlatti harmonia mundi
Ketty Nez featuring Gabriela Diaz, Lilit Martunian 5 fragments in 3: organum, and a dance Ketty Nez: through the light Albany Records
Carla Kihlstedt E - Death by Peach 26 Little Deaths Cantaloupe Music
John Field Nocturne No. 1 in E-Flat Major, H. 24 Field: Complete Nocturnes Deutsche Grammophon (DG)