Orchestral & Symphonic

He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, observed nature with scientific understanding and helped mankind with his visionary ideas to advance towards a number of innovative technologies. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most important polymaths of...

He has been called the most exciting younger conductor in the USA during the 1930s. Artur Rodzinski (1892-1958) galvanized audiences wherever he appeared as a guest, including Philadelphia, where he worked with Stokowski, and New York, where his 1937...

He continues his collaboration with the Staatskapelle Dresden with Dvorak's Stabat Mater.1. Stabat Mater Op. 58: I. Quartette E Coro. Andante Con Moto - 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa' 2. Stabat Mater Op. 58: II. Quartetto. Andante Sostenuto - 'Quis Est Homo,...

Haymarket Opera, Chicago's premier early opera company that presents historically informed performances played on 18th-century classical era instruments, performs on this world-premiere recording of L'Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph...

Haydn: String Quartets Opp 42, 77 & 103 - Takacs Quartet & Marc-Andre Hamelin - 'Does it need saying that they're awfully good?' was The Strad's rhetorical take on the Takcs Quartet's previous Haydn recordings for Hyperion. With more marvellous Haydn on...

Haydn' popular Trumpet Concerto is best known for it's thrilling first movement cadenza and brilliant and inventive Rondo finale. The Horn Concerto No. 1 is also notable for the technical demands made on the soloist, not least the large octave leaps.1...

Haydn Opera Rarities with Top Stars! Although Joseph Haydn is still regarded above all as a master of instrumental music, he was also a contemporary of the future as an opera composer. For a not unsubstantial length of his life, he chiefly devoted...

Haydn composed The Seven Last Words in 1786 to accompany the liturgy of the long Good Friday ceremony in Cdiz. Later, he adapted this cycle of seven sonatas, all with a slow tempo for string quartet, which is the version recorded here. The intensity of...

Hayden Wayne - Symphony #10-Dances On The Far Side Of The Moon / This symphonic work is for large orchestra executing four dance movements with departures from Reggae, Tango, Samba, and marches. This symphonic work is for large orchestra: 12 woods, 11...

Having made revolutionary changes, during the 1830s and 40s, in both piano performance and composition, Liszt was hardly less innovative in his relationship with the orchestra. He is generally credited with having created the genre of the symphonic poem...

Havergal Brian's Extraordinary Late Creativity Is Almost Unparalleled in Musical History. Between the Completion of His Sixth Symphony in 1948 and the End of His Compositional Life Two Decades Later He Wrote a Further Twenty-Six Symphonies. No. 6 Marks a...

Havergal Brian was one of the most remarkable of twentieth century symphonists, whose reputation for the gargantuan has tended to overshadow the more concise nature of his later music. His Symphony No. 20 for instance, written in 1962, is compact.1. I...