Orchestral & Symphonic

Over the last decade the music of the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra has become internationally admired, and this has led to prestigious commissions and performances around the world. Fandangos was heard at the BBC Proms in London and employs a...

Over a thirteen-year period, Gbor Takcs-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra embarked on a spiritual journey through the nine symphonies of Beethoven. The resultant cycle of recordings captures the ensemble's liberated and transformative...

Over a remarkably long and illustrious career, Camille Saint-Sa?ns thrilled audiences around the world as a pianist and organist, shaped the course of musical life in France, and enriched a multitude of genres with some 600 works, all bearing witness to...

Over a period of 40 years Marriner and the Academy made over 300 recordings but it is the association with DECCA / ARGO that was so unique and resulted in a huge catalogue of recordings of Baroque and Classical repertory - many of which remain in the...

Over 5000 votes were cast in DG's Mahler web poll, over 400 customers have submitted their suggestions for a complete Mahler Symphony cycle and now we know who will appear in the People's Edition: CD1 Symphony no. 1: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra /...

Over 20 years ago, Alex Ross, the noted music critic for the New Yorker, described the atmosphere of a Martha Argerich recital in terms reminiscent of the golden age of nineteenth century piano virtuosos: "Her concerts conjure up scenes from another...

Over 20 years ago, Alex Ross, the noted music critic for the New Yorker, described the atmosphere of a Martha Argerich recital in terms reminiscent of the golden age of nineteenth century piano virtuosos: "Her concerts conjure up scenes from another...

Our second release featuring orchestral works by August Klughardt also 'represents an impressive case on behalf of a composer to whom one simply cannot listen without becoming personally involved' (klassik). Klughardt's symphonies were frequently...

Our new Henk Badings recording further confirms his rank as a great twentieth-century Dutch composer with an important and independent individual voice in European music. Although he composed his fourth symphony during the war years, absolutely nothing...

Ottorino Respighi (Italian: [otto'ri?no res'pi?gi]; 9 July 1879 - 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer and musicologist. He is best known for his orchestral music, particularly the three Roman tone poems: Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma), Pines of...

Otto Klemperer's heyday with the Concertgebouw Orchestra was in the early fifties: his Beethoven cycle from that time was long-remembered, but also in the wider repertoire he revealed himself as one of the great conductor-titans in the tradition of...

Otto Klemperer literally embodied a vast amount of 20th-century musical history, wrote the New York Times. "There remains a tension, and a sense of architectural command, to his finest recordings that takes the listener to the heart of the music." These...