Orchestral & Symphonic

The first recording of the complete consort music of little known 17th century composer David Funck. The 1677 publication Strictuae Viola-di Gambicae is the only surviving music by David Funck (1648-1699), of whom very little else is known. Stricturae...

The first performance of Anton Bruckner's Seventh Symphony at the Zurich Tonhalle took place on 14 January 1924, to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. Under the direction of Walter, Furtw?ngler, Klemperer, B?hm and Karajan (to name but a few!),...

The first part of the Douze Toccates by Hans Georg N?geli was published in Zurich in 1808; there was no second part. On the title page, the composer conceals himself behind an "?diteur" of the same name. Prominent status, on the other hand, is given to...

The first movement from Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata in C Major for Recorder and Basso Continuo, BWV 1033 performed by Karl Stangenberg (recorder), Alfred Lessing (basso continuo) and Max Frey (basso continuo).

The first major French piano quintet, C?sar Franck's Piano Quintet was completed in 1879 and premiered in January 1880. With an intensity and lyricism unheard of in the French chamber music repertoire at the time, it marked both the renewal of the...

The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, ? sa guitare takes it's name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But it's frame of reference is extraordinarily wide - both culturally...

The first in a limited edition three-volume collection of the complete Decca recordings of Sir Adrian Boult, this set represents the most complete survey ever issued of Sir Adrian Boult's British music recordings for Decca. It includes previously...

The first half of the twentieth century marks the birth of three masterpieces for violin and piano, each bearing the traits of it's author and echoing the thriving creativity of the time. Aylen Pritchin and Lukas Geniusas lead us through this mesmerizing...

The first complete Schumann symphony cycle on disc, this set was recorded in Tel Aviv in 1956 by one of the most highly respected conductors of the post-war period. Paul Kletzki (1900-1973) brings out the fundamental strangeness and feverish excitement...

The first audio book CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933. The spoken word element centers on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who...

The First and Fourth Symphonies of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) both have a strong sense of place. They retain a hint of Bruckner but are fluid rather than monumental. The First is lyrical and grandiose in equal measure, reflecting the...

The first album of our new collaboration with ONTC, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, and their Ossetian musical director, Tugan Sokhiev, features Shostakovich's 8th symphony: an "opera for the Orchestra" composed with an unheard dramatic power...