Orchestral & Symphonic

A solo album for clarinet inevitably becomes a test on the clarinet, on it's expressive power andon the musician's mastery in playing it. Especially if the musician plays a contemporary repertoirethat is made up of works that follow two different visions...

A sleepytime serenade of beautiful baroque music from Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and others - these graceful, delicate night pieces will set the mood for beauty sleep and sweet dreams. Philips Classics' Set Your Life to Music series is a phenomenon! The...

A singer who inspired the greatest admiration and affection, Victoria de los ?ngeles was, in the words of Opera magazine, "one of the supreme vocal artists of the 20th century". In the opera house, the recital hall and on recordings, she captured her...

A sequence for the souls of the departed, to be heard by those who remember them is how Owain Park characterizes this latest release from The Gesualdo Six. As always with this remarkable group, performances are equally outstanding whether of Tallis or...

A sensitive and delicate quartet, La Palatine (soprano, viola da gamba, theorbo and harpsichord) invites us on a chiaroscuro journey through the heart of 17th-century Italian music. Lamenti, famous arias and cantatas (Rossi, Merula, Monteverdi...) or...

A self-taught master of the dutar and tanbur lutes, Turgun Alimatov stands out on the delicate and rare sato (bowed tanbur) with it's hazy yet precise timbre. "I first heard Turgun Alimatov's music in 1977. I had come to Tashkent, Uzbekistan to study...

A select few orchestral pieces notwithstanding, the works of Frank Bridge were largely ignored until conductor Richard Hickox began a project to record the complete cycle of his orchestral works. As a result Bridge has finally been recognized as the...

A Russian rural scenery narrated by a bard, characters present in traditional Hungarian songs, folk tunes from Bucovina whose enigmatic titles and melodic evanescence nevertheless leave a lasting impression, this summarizes the musical journey on which...

A royal palace of French kings for centuries, the Louvre of our day is a temple of fine art. Music holds it's own place here, as it has always been abundant within it's walls. The musical selections on this album tell the illustrious story of the palace...

A richly endowed composer, selfless teacher, and a rare human being. Proclaims Robert Fuchs' memorial stone, and this esteem is reflected in his astonishing roster of pupils Mahler, Sibelius, Wolf and Korngold among them. His own compositions, though,...

A respected interpreter of Faure?, Jean-Philippe Collard has over the years recorded all of his piano works, not to mention his complete chamber music and a recording of songs with Frederica von Stade - a part of the composer's output that he regrets not...

A re-creation of the music combined with a technological reconstruction of the acoustics in Linlithgow Chapel, this project from The Binchois Consort and Andrew Kirkman offers a fascinating perspective on how such repertoire might originally have been...