Orchestral & Symphonic

Born in M?nster/Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and W?rzburg, and as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are played by internationally...

Born in Li?ge, Belgium, in 1873, Joseph Jongen showed an outstanding precocity for music from a very early age, and was admitted to the Li?ge Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven. He won a First Prize for fugue in 1895 and honours...

Born in Geneva, Ernest Bloch moved to the United States in 1916.1. Humoresque Macabre 2. Obsession 3. Calm 4. Chinese 5. Hiver 6. Printemps 7. Allegro Comodo 8. Andante 9. Allegro 10. Moderato 11. L'istesso Tempo 12. Allegro Giocoso 13. Adagio - Allegro...

Born in France with Mozart's double Concerto kv 299, explored (albeit with a certain discontinuity) by composers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the flute and harp duo was very popular with composers of the twentieth century, all over the...

Born in Bonn around 1620 to Veronese parents, Massimiliano Neri was choirmaster at the Ospedaletto and organist at St. Mark's in Venice, where he published his first volume of Sonatas and Canzonas. He presented his second collection of Canzonas and...

Born in Bologna, Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) spent all his life between his birth city and Modena, where he moved in 1674. There is something noteworthy in this geography of the composer: Vitali's move from Bologna, then part of the Papal States...

Born in Baku, Kara Karayev was one of Dmitry Shostakovich's most distinguished pupils. Karayev absorbed his teacher's influence, binding it to his own distinctive use of native Azerbaijani folk melodies and harmonies to produce music in an eclectic range...

Born in 2000, Simon B?rki has won many international competitions and is currently studying at the Juilliard School, New York, with Sergei Babayan. His d?but recording features works by Rachmaninov - 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of the composer's...

Born in 1970, Lotta Wenn?koski's rich and colorful works often incorporate unconventional playing techniques and noise. In recent years her expressive range has become gradually broader, deeper and more powerful. Soie, a Finnish Radio Symphony...

Born in 1696 in Thuringen, Johann Melchior Molter's musical talent was recognized at an early age. He served in the court orchestra at Karlsruhe, and later studied alongside Vivaldi and Scarlatiti in Italy before returning home to live the rest of his...

Born and trained in Russia, the composer Alla Pavlova later settled in America. Her Symphony No. 1 'Farewell Russia' for chamber orchestra, written in 1994, expresses her feelings about the Russia she knew, now changed beyond recognition. Her Symphony No...

Boris Godunov - not by Mussorgsky. The story of how Johann Mattheson's political comedy "Boris Goudenow" came into being reads in large parts more exciting than many a mystery script: written in 1710 for the Hamburg Opera at the G?nsemarkt, the work was...