Orchestral & Symphonic

The circumstances of the composition of Purcell's only opera, Dido and Aeneas, are unclear. First performed in the 1680s, it received few performances in the composer's lifetime, before disappearing until it's revival at the very end of the nineteenth...

The Christmas carol has it's origins in the Middle Ages but it has since embraced a wide variety of musical backgrounds. In this album, religious sentiment is set in many different contexts -from the mystery plays to an African American spiritual, from...

The Choir of New College Oxford is one of the world's foremost choral foundations. The music composed for it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries thus provides a compelling historical tour of changing musical styles and liturgical practices. This...

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, admired the world over as exemplary of the English choral tradition, was established in the 15th century. In our own time, the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies described it as "a crowning glory of our...

THE CHICK COREA SYMPHONY TRIBUTE. RITMO was recorded live back in July 2021 at the ADDA Auditorium in Alicante (Spain) during the FIJAZZ Festival. Conceived and produced by conductor/drummer JOSEP VICENT, ADDA Symphony Orchestra's Music Director, with...

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 is often regarded as the most important of all World's Expositions. It highlighted the amazing technological revolution of the 19th Century. This is an album featuring some of the best classical music from this...

The Chamber symphonies come from the last decade of his life, the First for string orchestra, from the same year as the 18th symphony... it is pastoral in character, closer in feeling to a divertimento or sinfonietta... The Fourth... unremitting as late...

The chamber music of Johanna M?ller-Hermann is distinguished by it's focus on pure melody, which often gives the music a lyrical character, but which she is quite willing to interrupt with stringent use of rhythm and contrast. The Austrian composer...

The Central Band of the RAF perform works by and under the baton of Nigel Hess. The works include "New London Pictures," "The Old Man of Lochnager" based on a children's book by Charles, Prince of Wales, and "Shakespeare Pictures" which originates in...

The centerpiece of violinist Movses Pogossian's "Hommage ? Kurtg" is his recording of Kurtg's "Signs, Games, and Messages" for violin (there are others in the series for different instruments). Pogossian has developed a close working relationship with...

The cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca always has something to surprise us with: hybrid programs mixing genres and pushing toward musical frontiers, guests who add to an already rich repertoire, and a keen, passionate vision of both music and the world...

The CDs contained in this box set were conceived and produced as part of the project "Il mandolino a Napoli nel Settecento", coordinated by the University of Bologna in collaboration with the University of Uppsala and the Neapolitan Mandolin Academy (www...