Orchestral & Symphonic

Established in Moscow in 1945, and still performing today, the Borodin Quartet sustains a distinctive tradition in the interpretation of Russian chamber music. Over the decades it's members - all trained at the Moscow Conservatory - have inevitably...

Essentially, in the incredible ease and naturalness of his pianism, in the unassuming simplicity and absorption of the man, Backhaus was much the same artist and personality then. And he was far from unknown. Even before he won the Rubinstein Prize in...

Essential Wagner is a double-disc compilation of excerpts from the music dramas of Richard Wagner, selected from EMI's substantial backlist and featuring many artists from the label's roster from the 1960s to the 2000s. This package represents many of...

Essential Vivaldi / Composer: Antonio Vivaldi / Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Christopher Parkening, Emmanuel Pahud, Han-Na Chang, Conductor: Alberto Lysy, Iona Brown, Richard Tognetti, Christopher Warren-Green, Orchestra/Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus,...

Essential listening... "fabulously assured"... "unequivocally excellent", are just a few of the critical superlatives earned by Martyn Brabbins's magnificent Vaughan Williams symphony cycle. In this, the penultimate release of the series, two of the late...

Essential Guitar / Various, Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Lennon, Francisco Tarrega, Performer: Angel Romero (Guitar), Manuel Barrueco (Guitar), David Tanenbaum (Guitar), Wulfin Lieske, Conductor: Andr? Previn, Iona Brown, Antoni...

Ernst von Dohnanyi's Sonata for Violin and Piano in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 21 performed by Oliver Colbentson and Erich Appel.

Erno Dohnnyi had a long career as an important composer, pianist and teacher. Deeply indebted to the Germanic Romantic tradition, the works on this disc showcase his love of scintillating orchestral tone-color?notably of brass, wind and percussion?and...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for 1935's Captain Blood explodes with orchestral fireworks, throbbing love themes, and a measure of humor. Also included are excerpts from Miklos Rozsa's the King's Thief (1955), Victor Young's Scaramouche (1952), and Max...

Erich Kunzel conducts the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for selections from such well-known films including Jurassic Park, The Hunt For Red October, Terminator, Hook, The Abyss, Robin Hood and many more. Now available on the well-respected Audiophile Label...

Erich Kleiber's major Tchaikovsky recordings, newly remastered and coupled with Ruggero Ricci's debut concerto recording for Decca. Only a truncated version of the Capriccio Italien from 1933 predates these accounts of the Fourth and Sixth symphonies in...

Eric Tanguy's focus on "imagination, poetry and an interior world" has helped to make him one of the most widely performed French composers of today. Belonging in a line that leads back from his mentor Henri Dutilleux to Messiaen and Debussy, he does not...