Orchestral & Symphonic

After Mximo Diego Pujol (born 1957) discovered a guitar in a closet at his parents' home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eight-year-old Mximo took his first lessons from Don Gaspar Navarro, neighbor, and friend, as well as a fine tango and milonga player...

After his recent Schubert album, Adam Laloum pays a visit to Brahms. The young prodigy of the early 1850s immediately established himself as the worthy heir of Beethoven and Schumann with his dazzling Sonata No.3. Almost forty years later, we find him...

After his death in 1927, Robert Fuchs all but vanished from public consciousness. Yet here is a composer whom Brahms held in the highest esteem, and who could count Mahler, Wolf and Sibelius among his many talented pupils.1. I. Andante 2. II. Tempo Di...

After Haydn composed The Seven Last Words for chamber orchestra as a devotional accompaniment to the Good Friday liturgy at Cadiz Cathedral in 1786, several other arrangements were made during his lifetime, by himself and others, all of them familiar to...

After five volumes devoted to the early years of J. S. Bach, up to the Weimar period, Benjamin Alard takes an utterly fascinating approach to the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier. First he offers the listener an astonishing mental preparation on...

After doing three solo albums, the challenge of interpreting Eric Satie's music seemed challenging, appealing and also like a good way of finding new angles and flavours in my own music. What struck me while digging deeper in his catalogue was how modern...

After critically-acclaimed recordings of Mahler's Fourth and Fifth Symphony, the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov continue their Pentatone Mahler cycle with a rendition of the composer's Second, nicknamed "The Resurrection". They are joined by...

After Beethoven, Alexander Melnikov and Jean-Guihen Queyras now turn to two more giants of the repertory. Chopin's Cello Sonata, his last work published in his lifetime, seems almost like a testament, sombre and tormented - a world away from the radiance...

After Bach's Toccatas, the French pianist Amandine Savary offers a fascinating interpretation of Schubert's two cycles of Impromptus, superb, stylistically 'free' works that are finely contrasted as regards structure, tempo, duration and character. The...

After an album devoted to the final trilogy, Riccardo Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz continue their exploration of Mozart's symphonies. These formidably expressive, incandescent interpretations give us the impression we are discovering the works for the...

After an album devoted to Beethoven, Michel Dalberto returns to the world of Liszt, with the immense Sonata in B minor forming the centerpiece of his new recording. The composer was a visionary, but also a prodigious 'storyteller'. The French pianist's...

After a successful trilogy devoted to the concertos and trios of Schumann, Freiburger Barockorchester and Pablo Heras-Casado could not ignore one of Beethoven's most unusual works: the Triple Concerto. Alongside Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and...