Orchestral & Symphonic

St?phane Den?ve, Chief Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) leads his orchestra on this recording in interpretations of the music of French composer Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), works that count among Honegger's best known, including...

Springsong introduces 10 original compositions: 7 piano solo, 3 with a string trio. Maxence's pieces are often short (2-4 minutes) and evoke images ("Ballerine", "Candle"), moments of calm ("Horizon", "Silence"), nature, and the elements, which also play...

Spiritual masters have emphasized again and again that meditation and the search for divine truth begin with listening. The sounds of gongs, with their indefinable and ever changing (overtone) vibrations, are especially appropriate for drawing one into...

Specially written for Gergiev on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Rodion Shchedrin's The Left-Hander is a comedy of Russians and Englishmen, new technology, old traditions and strong drink. The Mariinsky Opera gave the work it's premiere in St...

Special Edition featuring bonus material including a version of the theme tune to Love Never Dies, the highly anticipated Phantom of the Opera sequel from Andrew Lloyd Webber. Import release from the Welsh vocalist, her seventh album overall. The first...

Speaking in general about Porpora, and in particular his Ariadne, in 1910 the French musicographer Romain Rolland wrote "Histor didn't do him justice. He was fit to compete with Handel, and the comparison between Handel's Ariadne and Porpora's, staged a...

Sparkling accounts of famous French overtures, rare and familiar, all recorded in 1960, and part of Eloquence's magnum opus, the'Decca Ansermet Legacy'.

Spanish composers of the sixteenth century followed a long tradition of writing music in honor of the Virgin Mary. The composer Toms Luis de Victoria, a priest and a scholar too, wrote multiple settings of devotion to Mary of which this collection...

Soundfulness, the new collection of the Cypres label, is an invitation to plenitude through sounds, frequencies, vibrations and breath. Soundfulness creates a space for dialogue between musical cultures, at the crossroads of traditional, sacred and...

SOUND OF ERIK SATIE / Various - The Oldest of the Moderns: Erik Satie, known for his droll sense of humour, moved in the same Parisian artistic circles as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau und Man Ray. He became a role model for an entire generation of...

Soprano Stephanie Lamprea releases her performance of Georges Aperghis' genre defining 14 R?citations for solo voice, highlighting her precise approach to the notation. These works, written in 1977-78, stretch the voice into fertile extended technique...

Soprano Robyn Allegra Parton and pianist Simon Lepper perform an album inspired by the burnished gold leaf and sensual contours of Klimt's Art-Nouveau 'Vienna Secession' movement, with music reflecting that aesthetic including songs by Richard Strauss,...