Orchestral & Symphonic

Mozart wrote his Violin Concertos in 1775 while still living in his home town of Salzburg and in service to Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo. Mozart had already toured internationally and found his parochial environment restricting, but as ever he...

Mozart is the purest of all musicians; he is music itself, affirmed Claude Debussy. And where, if not in Mozart's works for keyboard, could we find a more fitting example of utter clarity and purity in music? His keyboard output was vast, particularly in...

Mozart is central to the repertoire of Christian Zacharias, born in 1950 and a pianist whose clarity, elegance, perception and wit make him a master of the Classical style. The New York Times has described his playing as "Apollonian... notable for it's...

Mozart for My Baby - Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bernhard Flies - Performer: Dagmar Schellenberger, Semeon Skigin, Andreas Schmidt, Catherine Pierard - Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner, Franz Welser-M?st, Roger Norrington, Jean-Bernard Pommier -...

Mozart created 22 stage works in his lifetime. This 10 CD box comprises the world-famous 'evergreens' in historical recordings from Vienna 1955. Soloists are Christa Ludwig, Lisa della Casa, Hilde G?lden, Alfred Poell, Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena, Kurt...

'Mozart - it's always been Mozart. There are endless composers whom I admire, but I couldn't get along without Mozart.' If Andr? Previn's name is often identified with large-scale works of the 19th and 20th centuries, Mozart remained close to his heart...

Move - the name of this album - is also the title of a concerto written by Baptiste Trotignon receiving it's recording premiere. The work pays tribute to major composers of film music, whose iconic scores form the backdrop in this "audiofilm" starring...

Motivated by a quest for the beautiful, with the humble hope that I may be privileged to achieve this goal, if only for one precious moment and share this moment with my listeners, Vittorio Giannini was an impeccable craftsman and masterful orchestrator...

Most of Westerhoff's works today are found in the Burgsteinfurt Music Collection. It was here that Kloecker years ago unearthed a clarinet concerto that he no longer had the opportunity to record for CPO. Now he himself has passed the torch (or in this...

Most listeners today would say with confidence that the Baroque era was dominated by the towering figures of J.S Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. However, scholars of the period would disagree. In fact, Johann Mattheson coined the phrase "three important H's of...

Most important, historically, is the Moscow recording of the original 1962 version of Shostakovich's Symphony No.13 (with the bass Vitaly Gromadsky), using Yevtushenko's (pre-censored) text commemorating the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar... Yevtushenko's...

Morton Subotnick is a living legend. A leading innovator of electronic music, he has used many important technological breakthroughs in his work as a composer. This release, originally recorded and released in the 80s on LP by Nonesuch Records, has been...