Orchestral & Symphonic

Richard Strauss spent nearly a decade and a half writing Eine Alpensinfonie, a work describing the impressions of a mountain hike with such clarity that the score could almost be considered film music sans film. Don Juan's premiere (1889) established the...

Richard Strauss made an auspicious, threefold debut on 18 Oct 1885, age 21: as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto in c, K. 491, and as composer and conductor with his own Symphony in f, op. 12. "Symphony - splendid. His playing - like his conducting...

Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the early 20th century's most peculiar operatic works. It's narrative derives from the famous myth of Ariadne, who is abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos and eventually falls in love with the god...

Richard Durrant & Howard Beach - Guitar & Harpsichordß(LongMan064 CD) Release date:17.11.2014 Concerto in Am RV 522 A VivaldißArranged ßRichard Durrant & Howard Beach ß Siciliano ßBWV 1031 JS BachßßArranged ßRichard Durrant & Howard Beach ß Concerto in D...

Ricercar Consort includes an excellent selection of Beethoven's many settings of Irish folksongs, with imaginative new arrangements of his accompaniments, rescored for more traditional instruments than the original piano, violin and cello. His settings...

Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus and a cast of outstanding soloists in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. As an opera, Cavalleria rusticana is one of the most enduring works for the stage, and it's...

Riccardo Chailly -"Verdi Choruses" On February 20th 2023 Riccardo Chailly celebrates his 70th birthday shortly after his latest release, Verdi Choruses. Recorded in Dolby Atmos in the auditorium of Teatro all Scala, the album includes the classic 'Chorus...

Review Examples: (5th):"However committed you are to any other interpretation, his demands to be heard."(Gramophone);(6th/14th): BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month Nov.2014. (8th): Mravinsky's live recording of the Eighth of capital importance and...

Revered since the height of the Classical era up to the simmering years of the 20th century, the string quartet represented an ideal genre to which composers entrusted their most innovative ideas. The Modigliani Quartet illuminates these brilliant...

Revered for his incomparable Lieder, Franz Schubert was also an avid opera-goer who yearned, largely in vain, for success as a composer of stage works.1. Der Teufel Als Hydraulicus (The Devil As Engineer), D. 4 2. Der Spiegelritter (The Looking-Glass...

Reutter: Arie & Sinfonie / Vermeulen, Ensemble Nuovo Aspetto, Reutter / Vermeulen / Ensemble Nuovo Aspetto, Release Date: 09/25/2012, Composer: Karl Georg von Reutter, Performer: Olivia Vermeulen, Orchestra/Ensemble: Nuovo Aspetto, Number of Discs: 1...

Returning Decca's pioneering recording of Facade to the catalogue, this generous collection of English music includes further gems from the Decca catalogue of orchestral pieces by Walton and two marches, by Bax and Bliss, respectively, to mark royal...