Orchestral & Symphonic

Continuing their exploration of Ravel's output, Fran?ois-Xavier Roth and Les Si?cles offer us two works linked by his love of Spain. Alongside the famous Bolero, which regains it's original flavor here on period instruments, is Ravel's first opera, which...

Continuing the award-winning series of recordings from OSM and Kent Nagano on Decca and released in time for Nagano's final, triumphant season with the Montr?al Symphony, The John Adams Album contains the composer's key orchestral works, including Common...

Continuing her exploration of the cello repertoire, on Napoli!, Oph?lie Gaillard takes listeners on a tour of baroque Naples. We meet emblematic figures such as virtuosos Fiorenza, Lanzetti and Francischello, the composers Durante and Leo, the Spanish...

Contemporary symphonic music tends to fall into either one of two categories: hopelessly cerebral concert hall material that is difficult (if not impossible) to understand - or background music for motion pictures. Neither classification would be much to...

Contains Delius' most essential statements. Summer Night on the River, On Hearing the First Cuckoo, Brigg Fair and the Irmelin Prelude are simply magical in their effect, and Beecham's interpretations arise out of the depths of the music itself.....

Consistenly linked to the biggest box office blockbusters John Williams is the most popular & successful movie composer of our time. Aptly titled Greatest Hits 1969-1999 is a celebration of John's career. Music from Star Wars, E.T., Superman, Indiana...

Considered by many to be Grumiaux's best recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto, this performance, by turn tender and muscular, receives it's first international release on CD. The Concertgebouw is in glorious form under Van Beinum and Aafje Heynis is...

Conductor Laurence Equilbey is fascinated and inspired by the unconventional, hybrid character of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' and 'Triple Concerto'. She sees it as 'the root of their originality, which gives them a special place in Beethoven's output...

Conductor John Nelson and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg record Berlioz's orchestral song cycle on a libretto by Th?ophile Gautier, Les Nuits d'?t?, sung by (bari)tenor Michael Spyres. This is the first ever recording of the original 1856...

Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch has always aroused controversy over his Bruckner performances due to his perceived lassitude of tempo and allegiance to first-published editions. Tempo flexibility, dynamic contouring, and rhetorical gesture are part and...

Conductor Gary Bertini studied at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan and at the Paris Conservatoire. He founded the Israel Chamber Choir and Israel Chamber Orchestra and was the conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and...

Conductor Fran?ois-Xavier Roth leads the London Symphony Orchestra on the third album in LSO Live's Panufnik Legacies series, which showcases new music by some of the most exciting young composers working in the UK today. All of the composers featured on...