Orchestral & Symphonic

The French violinist Ginette Neveu was just 30 when her plane crashed in the Azores in October 1949. She had studied with George Enescu and Carl Flesch. Her complete recordings, specially remastered from the best sources available, are gathered on these...

The French Trio Arcadis explores the music of Vienna around 1900 with emblematic works of that time. The program includes transcriptions of two songs by Brahms, Zemlinsky's first trio, and Schoenberg's Verkl?rte Nacht, originally a sextet, in a version...

The Freiburger Barockorchester and Deutsche Grammophon launch their new creative partnership with an album of works associated with the celebrated Mannheim court orchestra. Mozart's Mannheim couples little-known gems by Cannabich, Holzbauer, Vogler and...

The fourth volume in our series of Charles-Marie Widor's Organ Symphonies, performed by Joseph Nolan on the magnificent Cavaille-Coll organ of L'eglise de la Madeleine, Paris. Widor showed early talent for the organ; for decades he was the embodiment of...

The Fourth Symphony is one of Vaughan Williams' most dissonant symphonies, and yet one of his most frequently-performed works.1. Allegro 2. Andante Moderato 3. Scherzo: Allegro Molto 4. Finale Con Epilogo Fugato: Allegro Molto 5. Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1...

The fourth and final release in this series of Giacomo Rossini's complete overtures. Includes the overtures to Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il Turco in Italia, among other works. The Prague Sinfonia Orchestra is led by conductor Christian Benda.1. Il...

The fourteen works for piano and orchestra of Ferdinand Ries stand alongside those of Hummel as the most important of their kind from the early decades of the 19th Century.1. I. Allegro 2. II. Andantino 3. III. Allegro 4. I. Allegro 5. II. Molto Adagio 6...

The fourteen works for piano and orchestra of Ferdinand Ries stand alongside those of Hummel as among the most important of their kind from the early decades of the 19th century.1. Grave - Allegro Con Moto 2. Larghetto 3. Allegro

The four symphonies included on this recording date from an early period of Haydn' career, when he was experimenting with a newly developing form. Nos. 18-20 were written around 1759 when Haydn had his first steady employment as music director.1. Andante...

The Four Seasons - here heard in Perlman's second recording - are just the most celebrated of Vivaldi's concertos for solo violin: both prolific and inventive, he composed well over two hundred. Perlman has selected four works from two famous...

The four pieces on this disc span three decades of Giles Swayne's choral music output, their striking echoes of Latin plainchant, Tudor polyphony and traditional African music providing contrasting and complementary strands characteristic of this...

The four great Mozart concertos on this new album from Elizabeth Sombart span from 1785 to 1791, his final year. The range of emotions these works convey is extraordinary. No.20 in D minor left the audience at the premiere reeling. It is terse, angry and...