Orchestral & Symphonic

that Albinoni wrote excellent solo concertos is clear enough from this record, all players involved are splendid... very well recorded. These will please admirers of I Musici, the group is well-balanced and the soloists admirable. The oboe concerto No.2...

Thanks to subtle inventiveness and diligent reflection, the organ has reached such a state of perfection that it lacks nothing; it needs no further experimentation or development at all, wrote the famous German composer and music theorist Michael...

Th?otime Langlois de Swarte continues his exploration of the violin repertory of the early eighteenth century. On this program, he highlights the links between three leading composers for the instrument, whose popularity was burgeoning at the time:...

Teunis van der Zwart and Alexander Melnikov have chosen to pay tribute to Giovanni Punto, now unknown to most music lovers, even though he truly established the cor basse (horn focused on the low register) by devoting no less than sixteen concertos to it...

Terrific Brass playing, virtuosic solos and great ensemble playing mark the Hannaford Street Silver Band's album Connections in Brass. One of North America's favorite Brass Ensembles puts Canadian composers on display with it's unique style.1...

Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is largely considered by critics and audiences alike to be the world's leading bel canto tenor. His previous release on Delos was an enchanting array of Rossini arias which garnered him a Grammy nomination. Brownlee has a rich and...

Temptation, prohibition, good, evil... 'how relevant are these in today's world?' asks Benjamin Appl. With the complicity of pianist James Baillieu, we are taken on a musical arc from simple folk songs through to the great song composers such as...

Telemann was known to play a variety of wind instruments and composed numerous inspired compositions for seemingly every combination of them. Arguably the most intriguing selection here is the Concerto for two Chalumeaux - a rarely heard distant relative...

Telemann may have written his twelve fantasias for the amateur market, but he would surely have rejoiced to hear such superlative performances as these. Alina Ibragimova again demonstrates just what can be accomplished on the four strings of a solo...

Telarc's 1987 Western stereo classic, Round-up, is now released by the well-respected Audiophile Label FIM. Erich Kunzel conducts the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra along with Frankie Laine on vocals in performing favorite western themes from movies and TV...

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake remains a ballet favorite and a powerful star vehicle for the prima ballerina who must dance the roles of two characters the "white swan" Odette and the black swan Odile, good and evil. Swan Lake has been recorded many times by...

Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, a work that is both elegiac and virtuosic, sets the tone of this recording. Dedicated to his friend Nikolay Rubinstein with the French epigraph "A la memoire d'un grand artiste," it shows great originality in it's dimensions and...