Orchestral & Symphonic

Byron Janis / MERCURY MASTERS9 CD/Blu-ray AUDIO1. *** Rachmaninoff: 2. 1-3) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op.18 3. 4) Prelude in E flat major Op.23 No.6 4. 5) Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 No.2 5. ? Performance] Antal Dorati (conductor) Minnesota...

Byrd: Mass For Five Voices & Other Works - The Gesualdo Six / Mass for five voices / Ave verum Corpus / Afflicti pro peccatis nostris / Tristitia et anxietas / Ave Maria / Circumdederunt me / Emendemus in melius / de lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae...

By uniting the virtuosity of the French violin school of Viotti, Kreutzer and Rode with the seriousness, perfection of form and developmental skills of the Viennese classical school of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.1. Violin Concerto No. 6 in G minor, Op...

By the time his eagerly-awaited First Symphony appeared in 1950, Alan Rawsthorne had already established a singular voice with his Symphonic Studies, Concerto for String Orchestra, First Piano Concerto and First Violin Concerto. The First Symphony.1...

By the time he issued his first collection of harpsichord suites in 1720, Handel had already focused his attention entirely on opera. As soon as it was published, the set delighted music lovers and became a bestseller all over Europe. It was such a...

By the mid-18th century Vienna had established itself as the center of European musical life, witnessing the development of the Classical style and then Romanticism. At the same time, the guitar was rapidly evolving and, in the absence of interesting...

By the mid 1950s, the Hungarian cellist Janos Starker (1924-2013) was already a legend and principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner. EMI producer Walter Legge arranged for Starker to record all the essential works in his...

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Lied genre had arguably reached a peak with such late-Romantic masters as Mahler, Strauss and Wolf in their song-writing prime. Composers of a younger generation such as Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Schreker and...

By being present and available in every corner of the planet the stone stands as a witness to the human and natural history. It appears to be as a sort of "geo cultural Esperanto", a constant that binds distant, in space and time, worlds and cultural...

By 1750, the cello was an important and fashionable instrument in Paris and throughout France. Cellist-composers contributed dozens of works and the best performers throughout Europe were heard on Parisian stages. However, a newly-developed type of harp,...

Buzz Brass's third album under Analekta label presents masterpieces from Aram Khatchatourian, Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Sa?ns, George Gershwin, Lew Pollack, Claude Bolling and Astor Piazzolla. This Brass quintet has been travelling the world and...

Burt Bacharach is one of the most prolific, inventive and celebrated pop composers of all time, responsible for a staggering fifty-two Top 40 hits throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Bacharach's songs have been hugely successful while challenging the norm of...