Orchestral & Symphonic

Rachmaninov fans won't want to miss this was Gramophone's verdict on Steven Osborne's recording of the ?tudes-tableaux, and this thrilling new release is an equally essential acquisition. Osborne proves a predictably fine exponent of the Faustian Piano...

Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 exudes an essential Russianness reacting both the country's distinctive character and the exiled composer's nostalgia for the homeland he left in 1917. Contrastingly, the natural beauty of Rachmaninoff's country estate,...

Rachmaninoff: Preludes - Etudes-Tableaux - Moments - Sergei Babayan is one of the leading pianists of our time, hailed for his emotional intensity, bold energy and remarkable levels of color. Following the 2018 release of Prokofiev for Two with Martha...

Rachmaninoff was one of the most gifted pianists of his time. His technical skills and musical expressiveness were unsurpassed and enabled him to thoroughly explore and expand the boundaries of what's possible through his own compositions. Although his...

Quintessentially Finzi, the tender yet radiant Dies natalis, a setting of texts by the 17th century poet Thomas Traherne, depicts both the first sensations of a child as it enters the world, and life' tarnishing experience of the innocence of childhood.1...

Quiet City - Alison Balsom, Scott Stroman, Britten Sinfonia - "This album has been an utter joy to make [...] The concept of this project began decades ago, when I decided that Copland's Quiet City was a work that everyone needed to hear - especially so...

Quatuor Eb?ne welcomes a favourite colleague, viola player Antoine Tamestit, for two of Mozart's six string quintets - No 3 in C major, K 515 and No 4 in G minor, K 516. Their last joint album, 'Round Midnight, won a 2022 Gramophone Award for it's...

Quatuor Diotima makes it's Pentatone debut with a recording of Gy?rgi Ligeti's string quartets. While the second quartet from 1968 is an avantgarde classic, the first from 1953-54, "Metamorphoses nocturnes", is often nicknamed Bart?k's seventh quartet,...

Qiling Chen was born into a family of musicians in Guangzhou in China. She was nine when she started to study the flute at the Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou. By the age of sixteen she had already won the second prize in her country's National Flute...

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: A great Russian name for a great Russian composer! Tchaikovsky was not always a happy man. He didn't laugh a lot. But he wrote music that is full of good melodies.1. Overture 2. Act II Tableau 3: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy 3...

Pygmalion and Raphael Pichon's new recording of Bach's Matth?us Passion marks a major stage in this fifteen-year companionship between the composer and the ensemble. The culmination of a body of work characterized by it's precision and humility. Read...

PUCCINI: TOSCA MARIA CALLAS - This Tosca was Maria Callas's final studio recording of a complete opera. In 1965, 12 years after her first recording of the opera (made in Milan Victor de Sabata) she was reunited in Paris with the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi...