Orchestral & Symphonic

Chicago Arts Orchestra's debut release portrays New Spain as a Mecca of baroque and gallant music through a selection of works by two of colonial Mexico's most prolific and influential composers: Jerusalem, a master of the gallant style and Billoni, who...

Cherubini's Les Abenc?rages, premiered in 1813, heralds the spectacle and extravagance of Romantic grand opera. From the Alhambra gardens to the battlefield, the action skillfully intertwines political conspiracies with a love story. Underpinned by the...

Chart-topping American pianist Lara Downes reflects on the music of Scott Joplin through a 21st-century lens, revealing it's many layers of genre-blurring subtlety and nuance. Joplin is revered as The "King of Ragtime". He's acknowledged as a...

Charming Compilation of Light Music, Operetta Hits And Waltzes Championed Today By Andre Rieu! Features Popular Favourites (Meditation from 'Thais', 'Funiculi Funicula', Skater's Waltz) Alongside Lesser-Known Gems - Many of These Opera Tunes, Found Here...

Charlotte Sohy brought to life thirty-five compositions for every kind of musical formation, of which fifteen, never previously recorded, are in this album. The record label La Bo?te ? P?pites grew out of the YouTube channel of the same name and the...

Charlie Siem returns with a new recording of Violin Sonatas, accompanied by his regular recital partner Itamar Golan - featuring Vaughan Williams' Violin Sonata in A Minor and Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 13. Charlie Siem is one of today's...

Charles-Joseph Van Helmont played a leading role in music in Brussels during the Baroque period. In 1737 he followed in the footsteps of Joseph-Hector Fiocco and composed a cycle of nine Le?ons de t?n?bres for solo voice and continuo. Ornamentation in...

Charles Mackerras has shown himself one of the finest Jancek conductors. His readings convey a sense of burning belief in and love of Jancek's music; they are well prepared; yet it is as if the strangeness and beauty of the music were being revealed for...

Charles Koechlin had a very personal style and was inspired by a wide variety of motifs, as nature, the mysterious Orient, French folk songs... Sometimes, he came close to musical Impressionism, as in Au Loin. Hindemith's composed the Sonata for the...

Charles Ives, like his elder contemporary John Philip Sousa, was born and raised amid military quicksteps and medleys of patriotic songs.1. Waltz 2. The Opera House and Old Home Day 3. The Collection 4. Slow March 5. London Bridge Is Fallen Down! 6. The...

Charles Camille Saint-Sa?ns (1835-1921) was "a man of many parts". He wrote and published poetry and at least one staged drama; he knew Berlioz, lived long enough to know Stravinsky, and was among the numerous younger composers who received significant...

Charismatic young conductor Vasily Petrenko launches his Shostakovich Symphonies series with the Eleventh, a highly charged depiction of the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre of over two hundred peaceful demonstrators by Czarist soldiers outside the Winter Palace...