Orchestral & Symphonic

Beethoven as a giant of the symphony and the sonata has somewhat overshadowed Beethoven as a creator of songs. On this varied and insightful recording, tenor Werner G?ra performs a program featuring Adelaide and the first song cycle in history, An die...

BEETHOVAN Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Midori teams up with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet for Beethoven Sonatas. "Sonatas are really musical conversations between two artists. Melodies are traded back and forth. Timing is critical. There is no room for...

Bedrich Smetana's cycle "M vlast" ("My Country") is not only the culmination of his symphonic output, it also occupies a unique position in Czech music and conveys a very special message of national character for Czech society. 'Sublime', one reviewer...

Beauty's final aria (sung by Natalie Dessay) is unconventionally slow and intensely moving, accompanied by obbligato violin possibly intended for Corelli who may have led the first performance. Ha?m is generally more elegant, though no less exciting,...

Beautiful sacred choral works, 3 by twentieth century composers Frank Martin, Samuel Barber & Herbert Howells, plus 1 from the 17th century by Gregorio Allegri, flawlessly performed by a 42 voice professional choir from Minneapolis-St. Paul.1. Mass: I...

Beautiful 25 yr old Georgian Soprano Nino Machaidze is one of todays fastest rising young opera stars. This x9 trk piece is a selection of the greatest bel canto & lyric roles. Features both arias from her career defining roles, as well as some new...

Beatrice Rana combines Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann's piano concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under conductor Yannick N?zet-S?guin In an interview with the New York Times, Rana, who called the piano concerto by Clara Wieck "a...

Bearing in mind the special pedagogical value of suites, Bach, already a kapellmeister in K?then, in 1722, began to write Suites pour le Clavessin into his second wife's private musical notebook, entitled Clavier-B?chlein f?r Anna Magdalena Bach. These...

BBC Scottish Symphony & Thomas Dausgaard1. The Miraculous Mandarin, SZ. 73: I. Introduction 2. The Miraculous Mandarin, SZ. 73: II. 1st Decoy Game 3. The Miraculous Mandarin, SZ. 73: III. 2nd Decoy Game 4. The Miraculous Mandarin, SZ. 73: IV. 3rd Decoy...

Bax completed five works for piano and orchestra, beginning in 1916 with the highly virtuosic Symphonic Variations dedicated to the pianist Harriet Cohen. The work was likened by Rosa Newmarch, who wrote the programme note for the first performance, '1...

Based on the short story by the same name by Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51), Iran's first modernist writer, The Doll behind the Curtain is an opera from Iranian-Danish composer Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour and librettist Dominic Power. It explores themes of...

Based on the novel of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Merquez, the Glyndebourne commissioned Peter Evitva's to write Love and Other Demons. In it's premiere season it was performed at the BBC Proms at London's Royal Albert Hall, and has...