Orchestral & Symphonic

Fascinated by the folklore of his native Bohemia, and gifted with inexhaustible melodic inventiveness, Antonin Dvorak went through several creative periods as he gradually broke out of the Classical mold; the last of these was deeply influenced by the...

Fasch Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 is the third and concluding volume in Tempesta di Mare's series of orchestral works by Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of J.S. Bach and Telemann. In his day, the works of Fasch (cantatas, concertos, symphonies, and...

Fantasymphony - One Concert to Rule Them All. The successful concert release out now on CD Ahead of the release of the second volume of the successful Fantasymphony concerts (and other exciting conceptual concert recordings around film, gaming and TV),...

Famous for his role as keyboard player in the progressive rock band Genesis, Tony Banks has always been fascinated by the idea of writing orchestral music. Five of the seven pieces in this orchestral suite were written specifically for the Seven project...

Famed in his lifetime for his large-scale choral works, but perhaps best known today for his Violin Concerto No. 1 and Kol Nidrei, Max Bruch also composed three symphonies. The First, dedicated to Brahms and indebted to Mendelssohn and Schumann, was.

Faced with Schubert's enormous oeuvre, it is striking that the polyphonic songs rarely receive the attention they deserve. The bass baritone Robert Holl is an international greatness in the field of the song through his in-depth understanding of the...

Fabrice Bollon's unique arrangement of The Cunning Little Vixen for chamber forces was developed during the COVID lockdown when the use of large orchestras was forbidden. Bollon also compressed ?arka into a duo and wrote Twelve Lillies for Leo, a...

Fabio Bonizzoni returns with his long-awaited new recording of Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo which serves both as a pendant for his award-winning series of Handel Cantatas for Glossa and as a further exploration from him into the serenata form (which...

Fabio Biondi, who was deeply involved in the reconstruction of this lost score, is surrounded here by a stunning cast of stars - Joyce DiDonato, Vivica Genaux, Diana Damrau, Philippe Jaroussky, Rolando Villaz?n - who come together as an ensemble of...

F?licien Brut has two loves: his accordion and the city of Paris. The title track of his first Erato album is a song made famous in the 1930s by the trailblazing American singer Josephine Baker, an adoptive Parisienne. J'ai deux amours places Brut's...

F. A. Hoffmeister numbers among the composers born during the 1750s who distanced themselves from the genre of the symphony during the 1790s without completely refraining from composing such works. It is not entirely clear how many symphonies Hoffmeister...

Extraordinary soprano Jessye Norman is the star at the heart of this live performance from the London Philharmonic Orchestra archives, recorded in 1986 under the baton of Principal Conductor Klaus Tennstedt. Norman brings her warmth to this tender and...