Orchestral & Symphonic

The harpsichordist and organist Scott Ross, born in America, but French by adoption, is famed for his recording of Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, completed in 1985. Another ambitious recording mission - the complete harpsichord works of Johann...

The Hanson Quartet present an unexpected nocturnal odyssey. From Bart?k's folk influences, including Central Europe and Maghreb, to Dutilleux's impressionist prints in Ainsi la nuit, and of course Ligeti's masterful M?tamorphoses nocturnes, this...

The Hannaford Street Silver Band is Toronto's award winning professional brass band and resident company of the St Lawrence centre for the Arts. The HSSB was formed in 1983 by a group of professional musicians with a love of the brass band repertoire and...

The Handel Company with the Handel's Company Choir under Rainer Johannes Homburg present five Homilus cantatas for Advent, New Year and Epiphany. Gottfried August Homilius left to posterity an extensive oeuvre, including motets, church cantatas, and...

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter' mature style are already evident in the Six Grandes Symphonies published in 1744, several years before he joined the celebrated musical establishment at the Mannheim court. The fast movements possess a driving i.1. I...

The hallmarks of Franz Xaver Richter' mature style are already evident in the Six Grandes Symphonies published in 1744, several years before he joined the celebrated musical establishment at the Mannheim court.1. Allegro Assai 2. Andante 3. Presto 4...

The Guitare d'amour in Romanticism. Franz Schubert's so-called "Arpeggione Sonata" owes it's peculiar name to a long-forgotten string instrument that was usually referred to in Vienna in the 1820s as the "bowed guitar" or "guitar-violoncello". It was an...

The Guardian has praised Pietari Inkinen as 'a conductor of bold, sure-footed intelligence' and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as 'a fine, responsive unit'. This third volume in Naxos' new series presents the dramatic and highly popular Symphony No.1...

The Greatest Classical Masterpieces! Features a carefully picked selection of the world's most popular classical compositions including works by Pachelbel, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Berlioz, Debussy, Vivaldi, Dorati, Rossini, Borodin, Khachaturian,...

The greater part of the CD is taken up by the Noels pour les Instruments that Charpentier set for instrumental ensemble and organ. Ricecar's interpretation of this work is based on the original manuscript and respects the marked instrumentation as well...

The great Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski was an important conductor of his own highly expressive music. With Chain 1 he developed a new compositional method linking contrasting musical ideas into a satisfying whole.1. I. Allegro Giusto 2. II. Ad...

The great niece of the largely unsung early-mid 20th century Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer whose book "Die Wasserfalle von Slunj" brought him rare recognition and was conceived as a novelistic counterpart to Beethoven's 7th Symphony, this premiere...