Orchestral & Symphonic

Iain Sutherland was awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Lifetime Achievement and his unique contribution to British Music.1. Eric Coates;March: The Dambusters 2. Vivian Ellis;Coronation Scot...

I send up a loud 'Ole'. This is a kind of gramophonic miracle which one never ought to take for granted. What a shock of pleasure it is when recognised'1. CD 1- Carmen, WD 31: Overture 2. Carmen, WD 31, Act 1: "Sur la Place Chacun Passe" (Moral?s,...

I love Schubert," writes pianist Eric Lu. "It is difficult to describe how meaningful his music is to me. He was the ultimate artist, in the purest sense of the word. Late in his life, with death staring him down and all his hopes and dreams dashed... he...

I had reached a kind of child prodigy status where my respect for older fellow cellists had become minimal. The sound associated with the cellists of the day made me annoyed, disturbed, and, at times, furious. One day around 1934 my mother took me to a...

I find it fascinating how each piano is different from the next, says the 30-year-old Munich-based composer. "Some instruments really open up your creativity. To play on a lot of different ones is the best way to come up with new ideas.[...] It's this...

I feel Catalan through and through, but in my music I want to express what I feel, what I admire and what attracts me, be it Andalusian or Chinese - Enrique Granados. I hope that this album will provide a deeper understanding of the Goyescas, drawing not...

I enjoyed greatly some highly attractive and charming music, sensitive playing, and clean, fresh-sounding recordings... The Lute concerto in particular has good things... Of the Mandolin concertos, this double is most interesting, done with charm, with...

I couldn't have imagined a better constellation for my first album! says Cristina G?mez Godoy about her first recording. She has chosen this repertoire because these pieces made her fall in love with the instrument and music. As a musician in Daniel...

I consider the album Accordion Concertos to be one of the most important musical achievements in my artistic life. On this [album], I present three stylistically diverse accordion concertos. Each of them is extremely close to my heart and has played a...

I am especially pleased to introduce to you a young singer, Marija Vidovic. In describing her voice, the words that come spontaneously to me are qualities like grace, sweetness and mellowness, and when it comes to her personality, I think of...

I am completely convinced that my Fourth Romantic Symphony is in pressing need of a thorough revision. (Anton Bruckner, 1877). Since it's successful first performance by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter on February 20th, 1881, the Fourth...

'I am an EU singer', Hermann Prey always said about himself. However, by that he did not mean so much his citizenship of a European Union country as the fact that he felt at home in the fields of 'E' and 'U', i.e. in 'serious' and entertainment music...