Orchestral & Symphonic

Igor Levit - Beethoven ?- Diabelli Variations1. Diabelli Variations - 33 Variations on a Waltz By Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 / Tema. Vivace 2. Diabelli Variations - 33 Variations on a Waltz By Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 / Var. 1 - Alla Marcia Maestoso 3...

If you're interested in Furtw?ngler's views on the German Requiem, this is the performance to hear. Furtw?ngler led a reading of unusual intensity on this date. It's not that he emphasizes the music's contrasts, although these are given their due. It's...

If you listen carefully to this CD, you will get to know one of the best composers in the world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived 250 years ago but he carries on being famous-so he must have been special. He giggled a lot.1. Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage...

If you are still looking for proof that quantity and quality need not be mutually exclusive in the case of composing geniuses, you will find plenty here. Listening and discovering is pure pleasure, wrote FonoForum when the first part of Telemann's...

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough's String Quartet No.1 may be regarded as definitive-the work is dedicated to the Takcs Quartet-those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.1. Hough: String Quartet No.1 'Les Six...

If the shadow of Mozart still haunts Schubert's Symphony No.5, the Seventh (in no way 'unfinished' in the eyes of it's creator) already looks far into the future. Pablo Heras-Casado and the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester lead us towards that...

If I've accomplished anything, said Ravi Shankar, "it's that I have been able to open the door to our music in the West." Born in Varanasi in 1920, he achieved worldwide renown as a sitar player and unprecedented influence as an ambassador for Indian...

If Elgar now dominates our view of British music in the period that bridges the 19th and 20th centuries, his contemporaries Charles Villers and Hubert Parry were distinguished and influential established figures in both composing and teaching. This...

If Britten's Cello Suite No.3 is the undisputed masterpiece on this program, the other works are no less deserving of attention. Frank Merrick's 'Suite in the eighteenth-century style' is a particular delight. As ever, Steven Isserlis's booklet notes...

If all the world's depressed people had somehow been squeezed into St John's to hear this concert, the pharmaceutical companies would be out of business. Who needs pills to lift the spirits when we have the six Bach motets, and John Eliot Gardiner's...

Ideal for Parents And Teachers Seeking An Accessible Introduction to Classical Music for Young Children - Fun-Filled Favorites Include the 'Babar' Theme, Mozart's 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star', And the Mother Goose Suite - a Great Educational Resource -...

Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by it's conductor, Graham Ross. Born from his close collaboration with the native composers of the 'Land of Fire and Ice', this program...