Orchestral & Symphonic

The internationally renowned Czech-born composer Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize and Grawemeyer Award winner, gathered invaluable experience from Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger, with whom he studied in Paris in the 1940s and 1950s. He was also greatly...

The inspirational French maestro on disc: an unrivalled retrospective, covering three decades of incandescent music-making, including recordings new to CD and long unavailable, newly remastered and comprehensively documented. In the memories of most...

The injustices of history are made to be redressed. Here a cast of international singers, under the dynamic direction of Gergely Madaras, devotes itself with conviction to the task of reviving one of the forgotten glories of French Romantic opera. Hulda,...

The incredible new release, featuring just the music and Pope Benedict XVI.1. Sancta Dei Genitrix (Holy Mother of God) 2. Mater Ecclesiae (Mother of the Church) 3. Advocata Nostra (Our Advocate) 4. Benedicta Tu (You Are Blessed) 5. Causa Nostrae...

The incredible Herbert von Karajan cleverness was not bound to the amazing result get with Berliner Philarmoniker and Wiener Philarmoniker which were the greatest orchestas in the world but also in preparing and performing other ensembles as the best...

The idea of writing a cello concerto for Raphael Wallfisch was first mooted more than ten years ago at the Banff Arts Centre, Canada, where Jonathan Dove was composer-in-residence. The two men spoke of Dove's interest in writing a piece for cello and...

The idea behind Carlos Cipa's new album is easy to describe: one room, one piano, one pianist/composer. Taking one's time. Approaching with the greatest possible impartiality. Simply improvising, at first only from, for, and with oneself. But what at...

The Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy, considered one of the great hopes of her generation during the 1950s, in fact experienced a recording career that was to last a mere four years, beset as she was by doubts and introversion outweighing her longing...

The Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy was born in Temesvr, then in Hungary, today in Romania, on October 26, 1924, and was hailed as a wunderkind. At the age of seven, she became the last pupil to be taken under the wing of the great violin teacher Jen?...

The hmHeritage series offers a new lease on life to the major productions that have established the reputation of the harmonia mundi catalogue: operas, oratorios, extensive cycles, and large-scale projects of every kind are presented in full to ensure...

The highly romantic music of Alla Pavlova, a Russian composer now resident in the USA, has been praised for it's 'urreal serenity... woven with unflinching sadness, without concessions to short attention spans and all within the long emigre tradition.1...

The head of a musical dynasty, Neeme J?rvi is one of today's most respected maestros. He conducts many of the world's most prominent orchestras and works alongside soloists of the highest caliber. J?rvi has a special affinity with the music of Dvorak and...