Orchestral & Symphonic

Edoardo Turbil is considered one of the most brilliant Italian pianists of his generation. Praised by leading figures of the international music world, such as Paul Badura-Skoda or Solomon Mikowsky, who hailed him as an "excellent pianist, with...

EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us, to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if...

Eastwood Symphonic is a tribute from Kyle Eastwood to his father Clint Eastwood. It takes the form of a contemporary musical walk into the heart of the legendary actor-director's extraordinary career. As a young man, Kyle Eastwood appeared in a few films...

Early in his career, Claudio Abbado gained attention as both a pianist and conductor in his native Milan. In these rediscovered recordings, dating from the years between 1954 and 1962, he interprets concertos by J.S. Bach (as a harpsichordist), Giuseppe...

Eagerly pursuing his exploration of Bach's corpus for solo keyboard, Benjamin Alard focuses here on works associated with the composer's first wife, Maria Barbara, and her untimely death in 1720. This instalment therefore includes both the Inventions and...

Each of these six orchestral works bears the imprint of Penderecki's greatness as a composer. Fonogrammi alternates piquant sonorities, pulsating vehemence and moments of great intimacy. Intensity accompanied by neo-Romantic elements can be heard in the...

Each of the five members of wind 'supergroup' Les Vent Fran?ais, partnered by pianist Eric le Sage, plays a sonata written by Paul Hindemith in the dramatic years between 1936 and 1943 - compact, lucid and engaging works for flute, oboe, clarinet,...

Each of the eleven albums in this set of recordings was designed as an individual program, a poetic voyage through the vast corpus of Schubert's lieder. Matthias Goerne made his personal selection from the songs, in which the three great cycles sit...

Dvork's was a strong voice in the re-establishment of Czech musical identity, and the noble themes, open landscapes and dancing Scherzo of the Symphony No 6 bear the stamp of a genius at his height. The work can also be heard as a tribute to Brahms, who...

Dvork's mature string quartets are masterly, allb rimming with life-enhancing music, and Op.106 is no exception. The Takcs Quartet gives superlative accounts of both this and the apt coupling by a young Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.1. Coleridge-Taylor: 5...

Dvork's haunting 'Stabat Mater' for solo voices, chorus and orchestra is not only the most famous work of church music by the Bohemian composer, it is also one of the most impressive ever settings of the medieval hymn in which Mary, the mother of Jesus,...

Dvork: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Slavonic Dances Dvorak (Composer), Kurt Masur (Conductor), New York Philharmonic (Orchestra) This sizzling performance of Dvork's last symphony came as something of a surprise. Kurt Masur is usually a solid but...