Orchestral & Symphonic

Long champions of new music, pianist Robert McDuffie and violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pridgen fix a spotlight on three masterpieces of the violin piano repertoire by three of the most celebrated American composers of the past half century: Philip Glass,...

'London, April 1604. With the freshly printed partbooks of his Lachrim? under his arm, John Dowland walks from the printing house to his home in Fetter Lane. He should have been back in Denmark long ago, but for the moment all his thoughts are on the new...

London Symphony Orchestra -"John Williams: A Life In Music" John Williams: A Life in Music celebrates the London Symphony Orchestra's collaboration with John Williams that spans over 40 years, going back to Star Wars in 1977. Out May 4 (International...

Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia's (1685-1743) set of 12 sonatas published in Florence in 1732 was a remarkably important event in the history of music. It is the first set of works composed specifically for the fortepiano, an instrument in the early stages...

Locatelli was one of the most impressive violin virtuosos of the first half of the eighteenth century. Considered today as a sort of Baroque Paganini, he left picturesque, colorful, strikingly modern pieces for his instrument. A few years after a Mozart...

Ll Pomo d'Oro and Zefira Valova focus here on the little-known violin concertos of the second half of the eighteenth century. Bringing together the works of Franz Benda and Johann Gottlieb Graun (in a world premiere recording), pillars of the orchestra...

Living Language is pianist Jacob Greenberg's consideration of musical style and evolving cultural legacy, across a broad range of pieces. This disc explores how composers build on their history with a highly personal creative vocabulary, bringing their...

Live Performances by the Great Black Harpsichordist [Black Swans Series]. "Amazingly inventive and fearless playing" - Kenneth Cooper; "She deserves a chance at a major career" - New York Times1. Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata in D, K. 29 2. Jean-Philippe...

Live performance of Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony and Coriolan Overture by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt in the early 1990s. Rarely can one hear such freedom and intensity combined with such success as it is here in...

Little is known about Cartellieri's life. He was born in Gdansk to an Italian father and German mother who were traveling vocalists, and spent his formative years in Berlin and Vienna. As a pupil of Salieri and Albrechtsberger in Vienna, he quickly...

Little can be as momentous for a work as it's encounter with an extraordinary interpreter. And today - there's no doubt about it - Faur? has found his voice in that of Cyrille Dubois. A bright, clear timbre and impeccable diction undoubtedly contribute...

Liszt's predestination for sacred music doubtless stemmed from his childhood, when he had close ties to Catholicism through his father. He went on to compose many works expressing the virtues of various saints, and to those works Martin Haselb?ck and the...