Orchestral & Symphonic

?With his Children's Pieces for Adults, Georgian composer and pianist Nodar Gabunia created an eight-part piano cycle in 1987 in the wake of such pedagogically oriented collections as Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Children's Album op. 39, B?la Bart?k's For...

?With a bang, the French Revolution changes the face of Europe. The years around 1800 are also for the Netherlands a time full of conflicts, social changes and political upheavals. Camerata Trajectina makes the complexity of this history tangible...

?Winner of The International Opera Awards (2015), for Semiramide - La Signora regale, and Best Female Voice Finalist IOA (2016), the anti-Diva, as she likes to describe herself, Anna Bonitatibus is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets...

?Whilst the English composer Edmund Rubbra is best known for his symphonic output, he composed a good deal of vocal music, and wrote songs throughout his compositional life. Rubbra studied with Cyril Scott and Gustav Holst, and was a great friend of his...

?When the Messe ? l'usage des Paroisses pour les F?tes Solennelles [Solemn Mass for the Parishes] was published in 1690, Fran?ois Couperin was just 21 years old, yet he had created a masterpiece of French organ music. Enhancing the tradition of...

?Volume 70 of the Vivaldi Edition revives a serenade by the "Red Priest" led with brio by Andrea Buccarella, his Abchordis Ensemble and a triad of vibrant soloists. In spite of the warning from her friend Nice, the nymph Eurilla is in love with the...

?Very little is known about the life of Anthoni van Noordt. Following in the tradition of Jan Piertszoon Sweelinck, he was organist at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam from 1664. After the death of Dirck Sweelinck in 1652, the van Noordt family became...

?Very little is known about Ant?nio Pereira da Costa (c. 1697-1770), though the exceptional quality of his only surviving compositions - 12 Concerti grossi - earns him pride of place. He held the post of Chapel Master of the Cathedral of Funchal, the...

?Two treasures are finally revealed to the public: the Berkeley manuscript and that of Caumont contain many anonymous pieces for organ, jewels revived at last for this world premiere recording. Five Great Hymns are presented that were composed around...

?Two major facets of traditional Norwegian music: the beguiling richness of ancient melodies in ballads, love songs, wedding marches, dance-tunes, nursery rhymes, lullabies, coupled with the singular charm of hardingfele music, a singular violin...

?Three years after it's initial release, Holland Baroque's Pentatone debut Silk Baroque is presented in an attractively priced Stereo re-issue. Silk Baroque presents a musical encounter between Wu Wei and Holland Baroque, performing a programme that...

?Three leading soloists celebrate Nature in the Romantic era. Flautist Juliette Hurel and pianist H?l?ne Couvert, currently celebrating thirty years of musical partnership, are joined for this recording by cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand, who was voted...