Esther Abrami Presents Amour: A New Sony Classical Album Exploring Love in All Its Light and Shadow

Celebrated violinist and social media sensation Esther Abrami has built her career on that rare ability: connecting classical music with a wide and diverse audience, inviting new listeners into the repertoire without diluting its emotional power. On October 9, 2026, Abrami will release her new album Amour via Sony Classical—an ambitious, deeply personal project that marks a major artistic milestone in her evolution as both interpreter and creator.

Out now is the album’s second single: “Love Theme” from Romeo and Juliet. But this is not simply a faithful revisit of a familiar classic. Abrami joins forces with mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti to deliver a strikingly original interpretation of Nino Rota’s legendary theme—one that feels intimate, cinematic, and quietly daring.

Rather than approaching the piece as a standard vocal feature, Viotti’s voice becomes an instrument in its own right. Using vocalizations only, she engages in a duet with Abrami’s violin, adding a captivating new dimension to the melody—less like singer and soloist, and more like two voices speaking the same emotional sentence in different dialects. The result is haunting and immediate, as if the love story at the heart of the music is being told in breath, bow, and pure feeling.

The track was recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Irene Delgado-Jiménez, whose direction supports the performance with a sense of sweep and restraint—allowing the emotion to rise without ever tipping into excess.

While Abrami has long been recognised for bringing fresh perspectives to classical repertoire, Amour reaches toward a new artistic dimension. It unites her work as a composer with her distinct voice as an interpreter, shaping a musical language that feels unmistakably her own.

At the heart of the album is its boldest statement: Abrami’s first original large-scale composition to anchor a full record—a self-written nine-part suite. Conceived as an intimate and deeply expressive exploration of love in all its forms, the suite captures the full spectrum of emotion: tenderness and passion, yes, but also longing, vulnerability, heartbreak, and the complicated edges that often sit beneath romance’s surface glow.

It’s a centrepiece that reframes the album as more than a themed collection. Amour becomes a narrative—blending original music with newly reimagined works for violin and orchestra, and moving between the personal and the universal with the kind of emotional intelligence that defines Abrami’s artistry.

“With ‘Amour’, I wanted to explore love in all its forms – not just the joy and beauty, but also the vulnerability, the longing, the anger and the pain that often comes with it,” Abrami explains. “Writing my own suite of nine movements allowed me to express a range of very personal emotions, while the other pieces on the album reflect how universal these feelings are across time and genres. Love is something that we all experience, for the best and the worst, but at the end, that’s what connects us all. I hope this album resonates with anyone who listens to it.”

In an era where attention is fragmented, and music is often consumed in passing, Amour feels like an invitation to stay with a feeling long enough to understand it. Not just love as a highlight reel, but love as a full human experience—beautiful, bruising, and ultimately connective.

With this release, Esther Abrami isn’t only expanding her audience. She’s expanding her art—stepping further into authorship, and proving that classical music’s most powerful future may lie in artists brave enough to write themselves into it.