Orchestral & Symphonic

Sergei Prokofiev enjoyed relative freedom in the symphonic medium. Symphonies allowed him to create dancing rhythms that need not be strictly danceable, as well as singing melodies beyond the limitations of human vocal chords. He worked on symphonies -...

September 4, 2024 marks the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will celebrate that landmark by playing his symphonies Nos. 1 to 9 within a year and a half, under the direction of nine renowned conductors...

Separated by 7,800 kilometres, connected by culture - this is the motto of 2019, a year full of anniversaries. It is the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Poland and South Korea. And Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra is also...

Selim Mazari has found in Paul Meyer and the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra the ideal partners for this new recording devoted to Mozart. Together, through three carefully selected concertante works, they sketch the portrait of a composer still in the early...

Secret Love Letters is a collaboration between two of the biggest names in classical music, violinist Lisa Batiashvili and music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Joined by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the album celebrates the fine art of concealment, of...

Sebastin Dur?n was, together with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He served as organist and choirmaster at various cathedrals (Seville, Cuenca, El Burgo de Osma, Plasencia) until in 1691 he was appointed...

Scriabin, the creator of unique sound worlds, initially followed in the footsteps of Chopin. Jean-Philippe Collard explores this Romantic vein by shedding new light on his Piano Concerto, a delicate piece but by no means devoid of passion, which he...

Scriabin composed most of his single-movement fourth symphony The Poem of Ecstasy between 1905 and 1908 in Italy and France. He originally intended it to be called Po?me orgiaque ('Orgiastic Poem') with it's unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering...

Scriabin clearly responded to the passionate and emotionally charged nature of the mazurka, qualities shared by all twenty-three of the exquisite miniatures recorded here by Andrey Gugnin.1. Scriabin: 10 Mazurkas, Op.3 No.01 in B minor. Tempo Giusto 2...

Scot A. Humes, DMA, is Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, joining the faculty in the fall of 2006. His duties include teaching applied Clarinet and Saxophone, Sophomore Aural Skills, and Form & Analysis. Humes is Principal...

Scored for as few as three marimbas or as many as a hundred percussion instruments plus celesta, harp and piano, these five striking works by contemporary American composers abound in fascinating rhythms, ingenious combinations and juxtapositions.1. Dna...

Schumann's only piano concerto is romantically poetic and not a work of bravura virtuosity. The piano and the orchestra do not contend for dominance. Their parts are closely interwoven, and one is not imaginable without the other. Mozart composed his...