Orchestral & Symphonic

Late night classics. At the end of a long day, and on into the night, this lovely album of relaxing music will help banish those cares and worries and promote a calm and tranquil atmosphere. A Nocturne, some Moonlight and some gentle adagios, harp, piano...

Late Baroque composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) is most well-known for his treatise on counterpoint, Gradus ad Parnassum, which remains the most influential writing on the Palestrinian style of Renaissance polyphony. This new two-disc set features...

Last year Kenneth Woods and the Stratford-upon-Avon based Orchestra of the Swan made musical history when they completed the first-ever recorded cycle of the Symphonies by Hans G. By dusting off the Austrian ?migr? composer's gorgeously melodic and...

Lamentations - Lobo / Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker - Alonso Lobo may be remembered principally for the great funerary motet Versa est in luctum, but his setting of the biblical Lamentations must also be counted among the masterpieces of...

Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Bruch: Violin Concerto Renaud Capu?on exudes a youthful air, but, now firmly established as one of the world's leading violinists, he celebrates his 40th birthday on 27 January 2016. This release of the best-known works of...

Lahav Shani, Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra for the past five years, conducts the Dutch ensemble in Bruckner's epic Symphony No 7. He admires the Austrian composer for his proverbially grand musical architecture, but also for his...

La Petite Bande was founded in 1972 by Sigiswald Kuijken at the request of the record company Harmonia Mundi (Germany) in order to record Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, under the direction of Gustav Leonhardt. The orchestra takes it's name and...

La Mer was a signature work for Ernst Ansermet. He made four recordings of Debussy's trilogy of symphonic sketches through the course of his career. The first and second of them, from 1947 and 1951, have been made available in new remasterings by...

La Mer is one of Debussy's most universally admired orchestral works. By contrast, his Premi?re Suite d'Orchestre was lost for more than a century, and came as a complete discovery in 2013 when Les Si?cles made the world premiere recording, played on...

La Grande Chapelle would not normally dedicate two separate albums to the same musician, but the relevance of Carlos Pati?o and his long career as a composer at the service of the Spanish Court more than justifies a second look at his work. In addition...

La Gamme heralds the long-awaited return of Sonnerie to the trio format. The all-French program of music by Marais and Forqueray recalls the Songs of the Auvergne and the beautiful French countryside. Huggett, Bejamin, and Johnstone deliver expert...

La Cremona / Italian Concertos - The Italians are uninhibited composers, brilliant, vivacious, expressive, profound, noble in thought, slightly eccentric, free, dashing, brazen, overblown, at times negligent in tempo; but they are also lyrical, cajoling,...