Orchestral & Symphonic

a truly desirable project with the orchestra and recording team getting well into their stride in this cracker.(MusicWeb) [Gipps] "thoroughly likeable creation... The spirit of RVW hovers benignly, and well worth getting to know, especially when given...

A trio of twentieth-century classics, sardonic and timely tales, in long-unavailable Decca/Argo recordings from the 1970s. Roberto Gerhard's imagination was immediately fired by reading Albert Camus' 1947 novel, La Peste, about a French-Algerian town in...

A tribute to the late Ida Haendel, comprising her complete Decca Recordings (1940-1997), newly remastered, as well as her performances at the 1982 Huberman Festival. Lavishly illustrated, Original Jackets, Limited Edition. On her death in July 2020,...

A transformative force in music, dance and the visual arts, the Ballets russes was founded in Paris in 1909 by the visionary impresario Serge Diaghilev. Innovative and flamboyant, he had a genius for bringing together the most brilliant composers,...

A transformative force in historically informed performance, Ton Koopman is renowned as a conductor, harpsichordist and organist. In 1979, aged 35, he founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in the city where he had studied with the great Dutch...

A third of a century after his death the symphonies of Dmitry Shostakovich have moved to the absolute centre of the repertoire.1. I. Adagio - Allegro Non Troppo 2. II. Allegretto 3. III. Allegro Non Troppo 4. IV. Largo 5. V. Allegretto

A third Hyperion release from top-notch Portuguese choir, Cupertinos, maintains the exceptional standards already set by the first two. This collection of sacred music by Pedro de Cristo includes five first recordings and marks animportant addition to...

A Symphony in all but name, Zemlinsky' lavishly scored 'symphonic fantasy' Die large-scale work beside the Lyric Symphony. Based on Hans Christian Andersen' fairy tale of the mermaid who sacrifices hers.1. I. Sehr Lebhaft - 2. II. Ballade: Sehr Gemessen...

A superb performance with excellent sound makes this a benchmark recording and my top CD choice of the year. Shostakovich fans ignore this release at their peril ! (MusicWeb) "A searing new live account by Rostropovich, well-recorded and unmissable (he)...

A student of Viotti, Pierre Rode was an eminent violinist active in early 19th century Paris who helped found the influential French violin school. Respected by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Spohr, among others.1. Moderato 2. Adagio 3. Rondo 4. Moderato 5...

A student of Rimsky-Korsakov and later a teacher of Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Gliere, Anton Arensky was a precocious composer whose youthful Piano Concerto combines Lisztian dramatic bravura with Chopin' virtuosic lyricism, the 5/4 metre.1. Allegro...

A student of Ligeti, Roberto Sierra is the most prominent Latin American composer on the international scene. If the Piezas ?ntimas were for me the concentrated version of Roberto's language, the Aphorisms are 28 fragments that live up to their name,...