Orchestral & Symphonic

The EMI Classics recordings of C?cile Ousset (b. 1936), spanning the years between 1982 and 1991, would mark her third and most prestigious recording collaboration, launching her, at age forty-six, into the international limelight. Indeed, recognition...

The eloquent, expressive music of Lithuanian neo-romantic composer Onute Narbutaite is noted for its sense of aristocratic poise and strong compositional discipline. Her Tres Dei Matris Symphoniae (Three Symphonies of the Mother of God) is not a...

The eight string quartets that Malipiero wrote between 1920 and 1964 constitute a major body of Italian chamber music and reflect his successive musical affiliations. The first two form a linked unit and espouse his radical anti-Romanticism in the early...

The ear's eye A French composer is always astonished when a foreigner says to him, by way of a compliment, that his score sounds very 'French'. Because a composer first of all writes music that he carries within him and he would be quite embarrassed were...

The Dutch modern-classical composer/pianist is back with a new album (digital, CD, vinyl) - beautiful solo piano tracks and some tracks created with various keyboard instruments and synthesizers - another relaxing and exciting journey through Matteo's...

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is forging a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile quartets of it's generation. The Guardian commented on their "lithe, lively sound and alert sense of structure and detail." The quartet play with unwound gut...

The driving energy of Turkish/American composer Kamran Ince' Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant recalls the motoric rhythms of John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine with some unexpected jolts added.1. Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant 2. I. ? 3. II. ? 4. III. ? 5. IV. ? 6...

The Dresdner Philharmoniker have received top laurels for their three albums with the symphonies of Beethoven and Shostakovich: "a delightful combination" (Fono Forum) and "very precise and brilliantly lucid" (hr2 Kultur). Their new album offers a...

The Doppler brothers and Friedrich Kulhau have yet to attract the public recognition that they already enjoy from the worldwide community of flautists. They certainly deserve to be better known and it is not unreasonable to think that the recognition...

The documentation on CD of the fascinating co-operation of the two composers Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, which took place mostly in the 1920s, continues as a wonderful 3-CD set. In considering the complete musical works of...

The distinctive character of each of Prokofiev's violin concertos seems rooted in it's genesis: the first, nervy and iconoclastic, coincided with the Russian Revolution; the second, more sober and expansively lyrical, dates from 1935, when Prokofiev was...

The 'Dissonance' Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes it's nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old...