Orchestral & Symphonic

Based on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy Electra, the opera is the second of Strauss's two highly modernist operas, the first being Salome. Laila Andersson-Palme was born in 1941 and moved to Stockholm in 1960. She was immediately accepted...

Based on a poem written in 1827 by Alexander Pushkin, Zingari is a tale of passion, jealousy and crime in a Gypsy camp on the banks of the Danube. This one-act opera was a huge success immediately after it's creation in London in 1912 and had an...

Bartok himself is an excellent pianist, being a piano contest winner of a high honor, Second Piano Concerto is his debut in 1933, the songs are of a very difficult skill and indeed the first two Liszt selections are compared to Liszt's piano concerto...

Barthold Kuijken named this album Bach vs. Haydn because it aims to compare and contrast important works by two major composers that were written at almost the same time. C.P.E. Bach wrote his Quartets in 1788. They are considered to be among his very...

Bart?k Bound (Vol. 2): String Quartets 3, 5 & 6 - The music of B?la Bart?k has everything: the mysterious tension of a thriller, loving lyricism, warm string sounds, almost impossible techniques challenging any string player to rediscover his instrument,...

Barricades - Jean Rondeau - The instruments integrate together perfectly, and the character of the pieces never suffers; this light-touch arrangement in no way lessens the authenticity of the album, much less it's musical appeal.1. Second Livre de Pi?ces...

Baroque works for oboe have long been fertile ground for transcription to the trumpet and there are several examples here of this refashioning. The sequence of concertos and sonatas include examples from Handel's Italian years, and from Johann Gottfried...

Baron von Dittersdorf's attractive personality and inventiveness as a composer shines through in every movement of the three charming symphonies featured on this world premi're recording.1. Allegro E Vivace 2. Andante 3. Minuetto Ma Allegro Assai 4...

Barbirolli's famous 1969 version on any count is one of the greatest, most warmly affecting performances ever committed to disc, expansive, yet concentrated in feeling: the Adagietto is very moving... A classic version. The Penguin Guide to Classical...

Barbara Hannigan writes: "Sehnsucht, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-si?cle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective Sehnsucht arose, in performers and...

Back by popular demand, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's latest disc in it's best-selling Symphonic Rock series features special arrangements of timeless rock and pop hits, uniquely scored for full symphony orchestra alongside the propulsive rock...

Bach's St John Passion is like an eternal cry into the void, carrying the essence of western, protestant answers to the fundamental questions in life in music. Our wrongdoings on Earth contrasted with higher moral principles. Nowhere else does it...