Orchestral & Symphonic

Grieg wrote roughly 250 bars of a Piano Quintet in his sketchbook before abandoning the work. 120 years after it's being set aside, composer Michael Finnissy's refashioned Grieg quintet received it's definitive performance at the 2013 Bergen...

Grieg' incidental music to Henrik Ibsen' play Peer Gynt is greatly loved by many and is generally considered to be one of the foremost expressions of 'Norwegian national identity'. Comprising the 'best' and most popular numbers, Suite No. 1.1. 1...

Grieg' incidental music for Ibsen' play Peer Gynt won immediate success and ranks among his most enduringly popular compositions, it's huge range of orchestral tone-colours and creative use of space captured on this recording by placing actors, chorus.1...

Grieg' beautiful works for string orchestra often owe their origin to poetic inspiration or to mountain vistas. Some were based on piano originals, including the Holberg Suite, a masterpiece of invention.1. No. 1. Hjertesar (The Wounded Heart) 2. No. 2...

GRETCHEN CRYER and NANCY FORD broke a glass ceiling in 1967 when they became the first female team to create a New York musical, Now Is the Time for All Good Men-the first antiwar musical of the Vietnam era. Their iconic I'm Getting My Act Together.....

Greatest ever Danish pianist in concert - His activities as a soloist and his increasingly comprehensive work as a teacher were central to his ?nal years from about 1950 until his death in 1967. Here I am thinking not only of his teaching as a professor...

great spontaneity and vitality... firm resonant bass... polished, strongly characterised accompaniments... The effect is exhilarating (Vivaldi- Penguin Guide 3 stars) "playing is alive, alert, stylish & committed... sound is first class" (Penguin Guide 3...

Great sorrow and great joy, expressed in in sacred and secular arias and cantatas, are the themes of Sabine Devieilhe's album of Bach and Handel. Recorded with the Pygmalion ensemble and conductor Rapha?l Pichon, it features appearances by baritone...

Great military band music. 'They're changing the guard at Buckingham Palace' and this is what they might play: A superb mix of marching tunes and popular songs, played here by a mighty tour de force of virtuoso bandsmen chosen from amongst the best bands...

Great hushes, mighty crescendos, time for every duplet and triplet to be grounded and yet to resonate with momentum. This was Bruckner's maximal minimalism at it's most majestic (The Times) "the LSO's principal horn (David Pyatt) here sets down a...

Grazyna BACEWICZ was born on 5 February 1909 in L?dz. In 1919, she joined the Helena Kijenska-Dobkiewiczowa Music Conservatory in L?dz, where she took violin and piano lessons. After her family had moved to Warsaw, she continued her education at the...

Graupner's total surviving output comprises some 2,000 separate works, including ten operas, a hundred symphonies, a thousand cantatas, 85 orchestral suites and 44 concertos. A significant part of his orchestral output consists of concertos and suites...