Orchestral & Symphonic

Augustin Braud holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Poitiers and the SACEM Claude Arrieu 2020 prize, awarded to a young composer of symphonic music. He was composer-in-residence at the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle Aquitaine for the 20172018...

Audiomachine is a boutique, motion picture advertising music production collective, specializing in original epic music and bone crunching sound design for theatrical trailers, television commercials and video game advertising campaigns. Since their...

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, Europe experienced numerous political and social changes. The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 not only entailed changes in yet stable state structures in a short time, but also influenced the...

At the time of his death, in 1741, Joseph-Hector Fiocco's widow sold the manuscripts of the composer's works to Joannes Vanden Boom, Dean and Chapel Master of the Cathedral Saint Michel and Saint Gudule in Brussels, where the composer had held the post...

At the heart of this program of Beethoven songs performed by Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano is the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved). Bostridge describes it as "the distillation of Beethoven as lover". Among the other items...

At the end of the fourteenth century, musical worlds collided in England as Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos spent Christmas at King Henry IV's royal court. For the first and only time, florid chant, polyphony, royal ceremonial, and imperial...

At the end of 1822, Schubert learnt that he had contracted a venereal disease. He threw all his energy into his work and embarked on the most profound portion of his oeuvre. This was the period the "Rosamunde" Quartet and the "Death and the Maiden"...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, all roads led to Paris. The Exposition Universelle drew great crowds, Hemingway and Kandinsky settled there, Proust wrote ? la Recherche... and Cocteau La Machine infernale, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes...

At the age of 9, he made his conducting debut with the LA Philharmonic, and at 11 Toscanini invited him to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra: Lorin Maazel is undoubtedly one of the greatest conductors of his century. His first album with Deutsche...

At long last! In the image of all the great jazz stars with any self-respect, the band Louis Prima Forever has taken up some of the immaculate standards and popular songs (by Mariah Carey, George Michael)associated with the magic of Christmas. You can...

At long last CPO is now releasing Ernst von Gemmingen's Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 as world-premiere recordings, again interpreted by one of the most versatile musicians of our times: Kolja Lessing, who both as a violinist and a pianist has lent...

AT LAST! For the first time the complete Erich Wolfgang Korngold score for the 1940 classic film THE SEA HAWK on two CDs - newly recorded and including music omitted in the final release version of the film.1. Main Title 2. Spain: King and Alvarez -...