Orchestral & Symphonic

Gentle classics for reading. Gentle music makes a perfect accompaniment to reading. This selection has been chosen with the reader in mind. Many of the tracks began life with a literary theme taken from old legends, Shakespeare's tales or famous books...

Geister Duo take their name from Robert Schumann's last piano work, the Geistervariationen, whose theme Brahms, a close friend of the Schumanns, used to compose his own Variations Op.23 for piano four hands. This recording proposes a bridge between these...

Gautier Capu?on's triple album is a collection retracing his career on the label with highlights of his most important recordings both in chamber music (Schubert trio and quintet, Saint-Sa?ns "Le cygne" from Le carnaval des animaux), and in concertos...

Gautier Capu?on's new album Sensations is a mix of popular music, classical (Smetana's Moldau), film (John Williams's Schindler's List), and well-known French songs ("La Vie en Rose", Jacques Brel's "Quand on n'a que l'amour").1. Over the Rainbow (From...

Gathered together for the first time on Universal Music labels, including several first CD releases on Decca, is the orchestral legacy of an inimitable genius of the podium: Hans Knappertsbusch. Even in his own lifetime, Hans Knappertsbusch divided...

Garrick Ohlssohn delivers an inspired pairing of Schubert's first completed piano sonata with one of the sublimely expansive masterpieces from his final year.1. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor, D537: III. Allegro vivace 2. Schubert: Piano Sonata in A...

Garden themes from our musical heritage. An album of fragrant songs and instrumental pieces from centuries of musical tradition. Titles include 'Greensleeves', 'Where the Bee sucks', 'Summer is icumen in' and 'Roses in Bloom', in a delightful evocation...

Gabriel Piern? - French composer, pianist, organist, and conductor - was born and raised in a family of musicians. At the Paris Conservatoire, he formed a stimulating musical friendship with Debussy, one year his senior, and was led by masters such as...

GABRIEL FAUR? Requiem (1893 version). With Messager: Messe des P?cheurs de Villerville. La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe. This title was released for the first time in 1988.1. *** GABRIEL FAUR? [1845-1924] Messe de...

Fyvies Embrace features music by Niel Gow (1727-1807), Nathaniel Gow (1766-1831), William Marshall (1748-1833), James Scott Skinner (1843-1927) and from Simon Fraser's the Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles (1816). This...

Furtw?ngler had a unique philosophy of music. He saw symphonic music as creations of nature that could only be realized subjectively into sound. Neville Cardus wrote in the Manchester Guardian in 1954 of Furtw?ngler's conducting style: "He did not regard...

Fukuma Kotaro - Mussorgsky Pictures At An Exhibition - Russian Piano - Japan CD Japanese pressing. Columbia. 2014. A third album that Kentaro Fukuma challenged the Russian program.