Orchestral & Symphonic

For me, Strauss is one of the greatest composers," Diana Damrau has said. "The way he handles the soprano voice is a joy. And to be able to sing his music with my voice feels like coming home." The centrepiece of this album of Strauss songs is the...

For Marco Salcito, the guitar, an instrument naturally rich in tone-color and dynamic variations, is well-suited to such a work as J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. It took Mr. Salcito three years to transcribe this masterpiece; all musical choices,...

For Jozef Zeidler, his music was largely forgotten until 2006 when his work was performed at the first Festival of Oratorio. A classical composer, his writing is transparent, simple, and elegant. His Missa Pastorytia in G is featured here. Much about...

For his second album for King's College, Cambridge, harpist and alumnus Parker Ramsay performs The Street by acclaimed composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman, a dramatic new work for harp solo, narration and plainchant, based on the Fourteen...

For his fourth CD for Mirare, brilliant pianist and composer Matan Porat chose these colorful pieces, spanning through four centuries of music from Couperin to Ad?s, displaying the different and similar approaches of composers to dance. Through this...

For his first-ever recording of music by Chopin, Fran?ois-Fr?d?ric Guy has chosen a 1905 Pleyel piano, a sublime instrument restored at the workshop of Pianos Balleron. Recorded in the splendid acoustics of the Arsenal de Metz, the pieces on this album...

For his first album with Warner Classics, Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Symphony No. 7 and plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4: two pieces which come from Beethoven's so-called middle period. The classical harmonic...

For his debut on Warner Classics, the 17-year-old pianist Yoav Levanon has chosen a demanding programme of works by Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Liszt's mighty Sonata in B minor forms the centrepiece of A Monument for Beethoven, an album...

For his debut GENUIN release, the young pianist Yuxing Chen chooses two great sonatas. He combines Beethoven's Waldstein sonata and Liszt's Sonata in B minor, repertoire he also performed at his graduation concert at the Rostock University of Music and...

For her fourth Warner Classics album, trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary has chosen four favorite concertos. Composed by Haydn, Hummel, Neruda and Arutunian, they span three centuries. Joining them on the programme are a so-called 'concerto' by big-band...

For her first solo violin album, Lea Birringer has selected three partitas for her instrument. Commencing with Bach's great Partita No. 3 in E major and ending with Auerbach's 2007 par. Ti. ta. Her program also includes Lothar von Knorr's Partita from...

For her Deutsche Grammophon debut, this rising star has chosen the Beethoven, the most musically demanding of all violin concertos, as the centrepiece. Recorded live at Vienna's prestigious Musikverein Mar?a has composed her own cadenzas for the violin...