Orchestral & Symphonic

The most complete tribute ever issued to the fiendish fingers and sublime artistry of a true virtuoso, Ruggiero Ricci: a feast of concerto, solo and recital repertoire recorded by Ricci, collected together for the first time, and including a previously...

The monarchy remains as popular as ever. Here is a programme of music for royal occasions, from coronations to weddings. Choirs, orchestras, military bands, organs and fanfare trumpets perform stirring music with plenty of good cheer, in a hearty...

The modern sequence of keys had yet to be invented when Vincenzo Galilei set out to traverse them all, well over a century before Bach's seminal Well-tempered Clavier. The resulting demands on the sixteenth-century lutenist were ferocious, and ?ak Ozmo...

The MIT Wind and Festival Jazz Ensembles' recording Infinite Winds presents a wonderfully broad range of musical styles from composers who have surpassed the limits of jazz and modern classical composing. The pieces by Klein, Corea and Byron differ...

The 'Missa Faulte d'argent emerges as a major work in this, it's first complete recording. With the inclusion of a selection of motets (also in first recordings), the present program marks an important addition to our understanding and appreciation of...

The Missa brevis in F is Haydn' earliest authenticated Mass and was written shortly before his departure from St Stephen' in Vienna, where he had been recruited as a choirboy around 1740. Haydn himself, on rediscovering the work almost fifty years later...

The minimalist movement, which first appeared in the United States in the mid-1960s, was for a long time closely associated with the avant-garde, but over the years it has gained a much wider audience and established itself as a major milestone in...

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Dante Anzolini, perform Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha. Tenor Richard Croft, in the role of Gandhi, leads the stellar cast in a depiction of Gandhi's years in South Africa, during which...

The Messiaen celebrations lead us to this grand finale: a 32-CD set of his complete works plus a 400-page booklet in English and French with the complete sung texts and libretti! The solo piano works with Roger Muraro and organ works with Olivier Latry...

The Masterworks Heritage series, issued in the mid-90s, received outstanding critical acclaim for the choice of repertoire and recordings, for the editorial /packaging and the splendid remastering of early mono and stereo tape masters, This 28-CD-box set...

The master violinist, Salvatore Accardo, performs Beethoven, Gershwin, Piazzolla, Paganini and more, accompanied by his Orchestra da Camera Italiana and pianist Laura Manzini. Accardo plays the Stradivarius "Hart ex Francescatti" (1727) violin, which has...

The mass that Mozart composed in 1779 for the Easter service in Salzburg Cathedral is shrouded in legend. From the very first bar onwards, it exudes the stately tone that would, much later on, earn it the sobriquet "Coronation Mass". Soon after Mozart's...