Orchestral & Symphonic

The Orchestre symphonique de Montr?al and it's Music Director Rafael Payare make their Pentatone debut with Mahler's 5th Symphony. The album is also the first recording under Payare's tenure, and the beginning of a longer recording relationship with the...

The orchestral suite is a genre that was mostly popular during the first half of the 18th century. Johan Friedrich Fasch is noted as being one of the more prolific German composers of orchestral suites. The overtures of the orchestral suites recorded...

The orchestral songs by the now almost forgotten Viennese composer and late Romantic Karl Weigl date from 1916, while the Rhapsody for String Orchestra goes back to the String Sextet composed in 1906, but was composed together with the Piano Concerto...

The opus most decisive for Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's fame and widely used into the 18th century are the eight sonatas for violin and basso continuo published in 1681. Since the Sonatae unarum fidium by the Viennese violin virtuoso Johann Heinrich...

The opera Waldermarsskatten is a fantasy around a real historical event on the island of Gotland on the east coast of Sweden, "The Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361". The trade in the Baltic Sea was dominated by the German trading monopoly...

The opening Trois danses cubaines by Alejandro Garc?a Caturla (1906-1940) is very much a typical example of Hispano-American musical culture, and would be right at home on a disc of music by Chavez, Villa-Lobos or Ginastera. Like Aaron Copland, he...

The opening salvo of Wagner's tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), Das Rheingold establishes immediately the epic nature of Wagner's intentions in a epochal tale that owes much to Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. Featuring the...

The old Chinese drama of courtroom and customs was usable only as raw material. In it's original version it is a fairly dull, wooden affair, handled extremely clumsily from the dramatic point of view. It is in effect inventing a Chinese fairy-tale. No...

The official funeral ceremony for the late August the Strong 1733 were also designed the music, the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) was born, who was involved since 1726 increasingly in the management of music for the Catholic Hofgottesdiensten...

The oboe has held a special place in France's culture since the time of Louis XIV, and on Bienvenue en France the oboist Fran?ois Leleux, partnered by pianist Emmanuel Strosser, performs works originating from the 20th century. The composers are Debussy,...

The Nutcracker, first seen in 1892, recounts the magical Christmas Eve of young Clara. Her adventures in the company of an enchanted prince inspired Tchaikovsky to such spellbinding numbers as the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Waltz of the Flowers...

The nuanced titles-miniature works of art in themselves-merely hint at the delights to come in Pavel Kolesnikov's sensitive realization of Hahn's refined sound-world.1. Hahn: Le rossignol ?perdu I. Frontispice 2. Hahn: Le rossignol ?perdu II. Androm?de...