Orchestral & Symphonic

The Nocturnes and Barcarolles demonstrate Faur?'s art at it's most personal, progressing from early lyricism to the elusive, rarefied style of the later works. Marc-Andr? Hamelin's performances are predictably fine, and combine exceptional subtlety with...

The newly formed Zilliacus Quartet (Cecilia Zilliacus, violin I, Julia-Maria Kretz, violin II, Ylvali Zilliacus, viola, and Kati Raitinen, cello) now release an exclusive album with rare string quartets by Edvard Grieg, Amanda Maier, and Julius R?ntgen...

The new version of the 100 Best Classics updates the set of 6 CDs with even more great artists including Philippe Jarouossky, Helene Grimaud, Natalie Dessay, Nicholas Harnoncourt and Alexandre Tharaud. This well established series continues to offer a...

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) and the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library are pleased to collaborate on the William Walton Project. The Frederick R. Koch Collection, housed at the Beinecke Library, contains the world's...

The new album Ysla by Yumi Ito has become a true tidal current of personal stories, impressive improvisations, and the unique voice of the Swiss-Polish-Japanese singer, composer, and improviser. Musically, the work moves between art-pop, jazz, and...

The new album "Spectrum" by the Vision String Quartet presents 13 songs composed, arranged and produced by the four young musicians from Berlin themselves. Inspired by folk, pop, rock, funk, minimal and singer-songwriter music, Jakob Encke (violin),...

The narrative of the last hours of Christ's life by the German poet Barthold Brockes inspired Telemann to write one of the most powerful Passion settings of the early eighteenth century. In 2009, Ren? Jacobs revealed this somewhat neglected masterpiece...

The musicians of Les Ombres pay tribute to Luigi Boccherini. The free and audacious composer was an insatiable traveler and the inventor of the string quartet whose belatedly acknowledged genius has now earned him a major place in the history of music.1...

The musical Kanneh-Mason family joins Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman and beloved author Michael Morpurgo for an album of magical storytelling this holiday season. Carnival features a performance of Saint-Saens' beloved Carnival Of The Animals Suite...

The music on this pair of CDs falls into one of two categories: ballet music from an opera, or ballet music that was not originally intended for dancing at all, but that was subsequently adapted for that purpose. (The exception is Don Quixote, a...

The music on Called to Serve celebrates the zeal and memories of missionary work and has a wonderful selection of church hymns and music that inspires and lifts in ways that few collections of songs can.1. Called to Serve - Adam Geibel 2. Redeemer of...

The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956) has been obscured by his association with the Russian mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, but by the time they met in 1916, de Hartmann was already a hugely accomplished composer. The two works...