Orchestral & Symphonic

Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately trained at Chetham's School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music. Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the...

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton burst upon the global opera and concert scene in recent years after having won many of the world's most prestigious prizes for vocal excellence and accomplishments. Delos has scored a major coup in releasing her debut album...

Meyerbeer was a precocious composer and this album traces some of his very earliest works. Der Fischer und das Milchm?dchen was his first stage work, a charming rural vignette that contains all the essential features of a ballet-divertissement couched in...

Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date on...

'Mer(s)' brings together three sumptuous late-19th century works for female voice and orchestra: Chausson's 'Po?me de l'amour et de la mer', Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' and, in a world premiere recording, an 'ode-symphonie' by Victorin Jonci?res entitled 'La...

Menotti' Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television, enjoys more than five hundred performances annually around the world and is immensely popular with amateur groups. A crippled boy, Amahl, and his mother are visited.1. Amahl!...

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night Dream ARTIST: Otto Klemperer1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Incidental Music: Overture, Op. 21 (Philharmonia Orchestra) 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 - Incidental Music: No. 1 Scherzo (Philharmonia Orchestra)...

Mendelssohn wrote his Second Symphony or Lobgesang ('Hymn of Praise') in 1840, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable type. This symphony-cantata, as the composer termed it, is duly permeated with a rich and often jubilant...

Mendelssohn may have published only one violin sonata (the early Op.4), but that does not signify any lack of inspiration in the others - left in manuscript. The F major sonata which, opens this program from Alina Ibragimova and C?dric Tiberghien is a...

Memory is at the forefront of this program, which pairs Steven Mackey's moving, evocative violin concerto, Beautiful Passing, with Mnemosyne's Pool, his expansive symphonic saga, to explore the different ways in which we engage with that most human of...

Memorials, Name Days, and aristocratic connections were just some of the many incentives for Johann Strauss the Elder to pour forth his unrivalled series of Waltzes, Quadrilles and Polkas for his ravenous Viennese public. During 1846-47 such...

Meine Seele weinte ("My soul wept") is the title of the versatile mezzo-soprano Natalya Boeva's new CD featuring lieder spanning a wide variety of epochs, languages, and styles. It is a co-production of GENUIN and the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Together with...