Orchestral & Symphonic

Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata and eight guest singers explore the musical highways and byways of Naples, the most intoxicating and idiosyncratic of Italy's large cities. Alla Napoletana, a double album, expresses the city's mercurial personality in...

Christina Pluhar collaborates with star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata for a great program of French Baroque music: de Vis?e, Antoine Boesset, Etienne Moulin?, Michel Lambert, and many more.1. Aux Plaisirs, Aux D?lices...

Christian Sinding's Fr?hlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring) for Orchestra, Op. 32, No. 3 performed by the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra with Ilmar Lapinsch conducting.1. Fr\Xfchlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring) for Orchestra, Op. 32, No. 3

Choro et Organo by Bernardino Bottazzi (1560-1614) may be considered the most extensive and best-known collection of Italian organ works from the early 17th century. In the beautiful edition printed by Giacomo Vincenti, the musical notation used relates...

Choral singing enjoys astonishing vitality in the United States of America. Alongside Bernstein's prodigious Chichester Psalms, Barber's Two Choruses, and Erb's much-loved arrangement of Shenandoah, Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge...

Chopin's 24 Pr?ludes, unlike those of Bach, do not precede either fugue or sung chorale. The term underlines the modesty of these short, simply shaped pieces. But these pieces prelude each other, since they form a carefully ordered whole, according to...

Chopin: Piano Concertos, Waltzes / Marek Drewnowski / Composer: Fr?d?ric Chopin / Performer: Marek Drewnowski / Orchestra/Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Antoni Wit This album which is a chamber version of concertos. It is...

Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas - Pavel Kolesnikov's deep affinity with the music of Chopin is once again on display. His immaculate performances on this intelligently planned recital build towards the epic F minor Fantasy, and can only enhance...

Chopin' youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the teenage performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary virtuosity.1. I. Allegro Maestoso 2. II. Romanza: Larghetto 3. III. Rondo: Vivace 4. I. Introduction:...

Chopin is reserved, visionary and mysterious," says Beatrice Rana. "There are many layers to his music. It's pleasing to the ear and sincere in it's communication, but the deeper you go, the more you find..." For this album, Rana pairs Chopin's 12 op 25...

Chopin is a composer who has been with me since I started playing the piano as a child. In Japan, where I grew up, it is impossible to avoid Chopin's music! He is one of the most popular composers for everybody, and all pianists start playing and getting...

Chopin holds a pre-eminent place in Pollini's career; in 1960 he was awarded the first prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and appeared in the same year at La Scala, Milan, playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto under Sergiu...