Orchestral & Symphonic

Fryderyk Chopin' name is synonymous with the piano. It is perhaps for this reason that his songs have been so often overlooked. In them the piano shares the spotlight with the singer, yet they possess the same combination of delicacy, power and beauty.1...

From Versailles to the Royal Academy of Music, from the Concert spirituel to the Violons du Roy, the duo that unites harpsichord and violin illustrates the fine tradition of the sonata repertoire in the 18th century, a touchstone of the instrumental...

From today's perspective, Florian Leopold Ga?mann (1729-1774) falls into one of those time gaps that, like black holes in the universe of art, threaten to swallow up everything that cannot be easily assigned to an era in retrospect. And this despite the...

From time to time, the general idea gains currency that national anthems are nowadays an anachronism. According to the critics' arguments, these anthems were the product of a period of awakening nationalism. Today, however, there is wide endeavour to...

From the youthful Concerto no.6 (1776) to the almost testamentary Concerto no.25 (1786), Mozart's style underwent considerable evolution. In ten years, the young prodigy gave way to a master fully aware that he was opening up new horizons for the genre...

From the virtuoso Essercizi (K.12 and 15) to the touching cantabile eloquence of the Sonata in G major, K.144, most of the repertoire on this album consists of lesser-known works incorporating elements of dance forms from Spain and Portugal, with the...

From the very first notes, with their tolling bells, Casella' Symphony No. 2 is deeply indebted to it's model, Mahler' own Symphony No. 2, whose Parisian premiere was championed by Casella during his years in the French capital.1. I. Lento Grave Solenne...

From the overt Romanticism of Saint-Sa?ns to the nostalgia-laden modernity of Poulenc, Bruno Philippe takes us on a journey through (almost) a century of French cello music. Alongside Tanguy de Williencourt, he also performs the cello version of Franck's...

From the opening funeral dirge of the Quartet No.1 to the incandescent frenzy that concludes the fifth, this disc offers a genuine panorama of the Bart?kian universe. It's a world unto itself, constantly stamped with the heritage of Hungarian folklore so...

From the mid-seventeenth century to the first two decades of the eighteenth century, Rome experienced one of the most brilliant musical periods in it's history. In this recording, the Ensemble Jacques Moderne performs works composed for a Vespers...

From the mid-1810s until the end of his life, Beethoven constantly tested to the limit the forms he had inherited from Haydn and Mozart. His last two cello sonatas bear witness to this structural preoccupation, which opened up so many new spaces, as did...

From the legendary Albani's library in Urbino, a collection of recordings, many of which unpublished, of anonymous ma- nuscripts alternated to compositions by the two most famous lutenists of Rome at the time: Vincenzo Pinti and Lorenzo Tracetti. The...