Orchestral & Symphonic

Ligeti's interest in sonorities and instrumental timbres is well known. Fran?ois-Xavier Roth and the musicians of Les Si?cles, themselves true alchemists of sounds and colors, recorded shimmering interpretations of these three works in 2016, displaying...

Life on the reef is beautiful. Lots of different creatures all live peacefully together here: parrotfish, swordfish, turtles, schools of sardines, an octopus, a seahorse, a mackerel, and an oyster. But then something terrible happens: a huge swarm of...

Life is an odyssey. We all carry it literally within us, in our genes and souls, experiencing it throughout our lives. This odyssey starts in Seville, Spain in 1546 and takes us through England and Germany (16th century), Sweden and the Baltics (17th and...

Les Synth?tistes, a collective formed in Brussels in September 1925, sought to distinguish themselves from late-Romantic style by connecting with contemporary music, and the group created a unique canon of original, modern music for wind band. A sample...

LES ARTS FLORISSANTS / RAMEAU: PLATEE - WILLIAM CHRISTIE A marsh nymph thinks she is so irresistible that Jupiter himself will take an interest in her... Brimming with exceptional dramatic and musical verve, this strangely under-recorded 'ballet bouffon'...

Les Ambassadeurs launch a series of recordings devoted to the repertory of the Dresdner Hofkapelle at the time of Bach, with the aim of rediscovering the splendid sound of an ensemble then regarded as the orchestral ideal. Although the concertos compiled...

Les ?l?ments invite you to a winter evening, best enjoyed by the fireside. This musical journey from the Middle Ages to the present day, features songs and poems celebrating winter, both it's festivals and it's coldness, in the intimacy of the a cappella...

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision.1...

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision.1...

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision.1. 1...

Leopold Stokowski was not only one of the twentieth century' greatest conductors, he was also an inveterate transcriber of music for the symphony orchestra, making some two hundred orchestral arrangements of works which had started life in other forms.1...

Leopold Stokowski arranged nearly 40 works from Bach' catalogue for the modern symphony orchestra, and Jose Serebrier' second volume of Bach-Stokowski Transcriptions is as colourful and wide-ranging as the first.1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Johann...