Orchestral & Symphonic

Soprano Elsa Dreisig follows her debut album Miroir(s) with a recital of songs in collaboration with pianist Jonathan Ware. Taking it's title, Morgen, from one of Richard Strauss's best-loved lieder, it interweaves his music (notably the Four Last Songs)...

Soprano Diana Damrau assumes the crowns of three different Tudor queens, the central characters in operas by Donizetti: Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena), Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda), and Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux). With Antonio Pappano and the...

Soprano Chen Reiss writes "Discovering the dramatic scene 'Hero & Leander' by Fanny Hensel left me amazed by the richness of colors and invention, as well as her skillful orchestration and dramatic expression". Felix Mendelssohn's sister Fanny is only...

Soprano Ch?rie Hughes and guitarist Roberto Lim?n present three works inspired by the music of Spain and the Sephardic Jewish diaspora. The opening title work, composed by Samuel Zyman and commissioned in 2013 by the duo, sets an English translation by...

Soprano Anna Prohaska and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja are both well known for their taste for eclecticism, experimentation and adventure. As they are also are friends, it was only to be expected that one day they would devise and record a programme...

Sonya Bach's fourth album for Rubicon is an all Mussorgsky program. The famous Pictures at an Exibition and Night on the Bald Mountain bookend rarer repertoire such as the two Pictures from Crimea, Duma, and M?ditation. Sonya Bach studied with two of the...

Sony Classical. 2014.1. NR. 1: Gute Nacht 2. NR. 2: Die Wetterfahne 3. NR. 3: Gefrorne Tranen 4. NR. 4: Erstarrung 5. NR. 5: Der Lindenbaum 6. NR. 6: Wasserflut 7. NR. 7: Auf Dem Flusse 8. NR. 8: Ruckblick 9. NR. 9: Irrlicht 10. NR. 10: Rast 11. NR. 11:...

Sony Classical is pleased to announce an important reissue of works by Carlos Chvez, one of the most influential figures in the history of Mexican music. Most of these recordings, which span the years 1938 to 1980, are conducted by Chvez himself and have...

Sontraud Speidel studied with Irene Slavin and Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Karlsruhe, with Branka Musulin in Frankfurt, with Stefan Askenase in Brussels and G?za Anda in Lucerne. She has been honored several times in national and international competitions...

Songs without words in the velvety smoothness of a splendid brass instrument: this is what we are offered by the new GENUIN release of the Duo GIOVIVO from Switzerland. Fabian Bloch (euphonium) and Muriel Zeiter (piano) take us on a journey through three...

Songs of love and loss by a trio of early 18th century Spanish composers, showcasing the vocal art of a distinguished early-music soprano. Cristina Bay?n ?lvarez has sung with early-music luminaries such as Christophe Coin, Diego Fasolis and Carlos Mena...

Songs by Warlock & Howe - Anna Harvey / Mark Austin - This delightful recital of English songs brings together one of the form's most distinctive and prolific composers, Peter Warlock, with a composer born in 1951 who continues very much in the tradition...