Orchestral & Symphonic

On June 23, 2023, Annika Socolofsky, a composer and avant-folk vocalist who explores colorful corners of the human voice - tones and timbres and techniques often dismissed as "untrained" or "unClassical" - releases Don't Say a Word, an album of...

On June 2, 2023, GRAMMY-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart releases of Love., an album dedicated to his mother, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, who died of brain cancer on Sept. 7, 2021, at age 66. "He is a giant... combining omnivory and...

On June 2, 2012-the 75th anniversary of his death at Notre Dame-I performed each of Vierne's six organ symphonies in a marathon performance at Church of the Ascension, New York. That performance launched a summer-long tour of these works (affectionally...

On July 29, 2015 composer Mikis Theodorakis will celebrate his 90th birthday. In honor of this occasion, Soprano Johanna Krumin and baritone Peter Sch?ne offer this collection of thirteen of the composer's songs. Regarded as somewhat of a political hero,...

On January 21st, 22nd and 23rd of 2022, the multidisciplinary artist Joseph Schiano Di Lombo gave six live performances on the 22nd and last floor of the tower of the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique. Alone on stage, in the dark and lit only by the...

On it's first release, this 1955 recording was praised as 'a worthy performance of the work and a well recorded one' by Gramophone, which also commented that 'Elisabeth Grummer sings her solo with beautiful tone and deep feeling' and 'Fischer-Dieskau.1...

On his second album for Alpha Classics, rising star violinist Kerson Leong juxtaposes the Violin Concertos of Bruch and Benjamin Britten. This unusual pairing is a reflection on the journey from one extreme of expression to another. Bruch's In Memoriam...

On his new release, pianist Charles Foreman presents a program of sonatas by Beethoven. Pianist Charles Foreman made his debut in 1972 with the Chicago Civic Orchestra conducted by David Gilbert, playing the Brahms B-flat Concerto. Since then, he has won...

On his first solo clavichord album, Alexander Gergelyfi creates an exceptionally colorful and at the same time sensual portrait of his home country Austria. Exquisite music from the 17th and 18th centuries is presented on what is probably the oldest...

On his first recording, French baritone Edwin Crossley-Mercer is joined by pianist Yoan H?reau for a performance of Schubert's Winterreise. His mother, painter Claudine Franck was also inspired by this masterpiece. Following Mu?ller and Schubert's...

On her sixth album for Channel Classics, pianist Anna Federova performs a recital of works by Chopin. "The year 2020 was the strangest and loneliest year that I lived through so far. Around the world, so many of us had to find our own way to get through...

On her latest release, Flora Fabri interprets the highly praised sonatas and a fantasy by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf on a "tangent grand". The ingenious invention of this grand piano for the time around 1770 is an intermediate form of clavichord, harpsichord and...