Orchestral & Symphonic

?Although Mignone wrote a large number of pieces for piano solo, his preference had always been for the orchestra, and for solo song. In his works for the piano the search for orchestral colour and texture is clearly evident in his use of ornamentation,...

?Although Bach obviously felt at home composing for the recorder and used it in important works such as the Brandenburg Concertos and several cantatas, he never composed a concerto for solo recorder - in fact, he only wrote original solo concertos for...

?All the songs selected by Cantor Nikola David for this recording have been transliterated by the Cantor from the original Ashkenazi pronunciation to follow Sephardic pronunciation. This decision parallels that made by Eliezer Ben-Jehuda when creating...

?After the great success of their first Solo Musica CD "Hymne ? la Beaut?", Sonja and Astrid Leutwyler this time recorded further discoveries for the special instrumentation of voice, violin and piano. A great enrichment of the trio with pianist Benjamin...

?Achtung, Aufnahme!! is the Ebony Band's final album. Conductor and oboist Werner Herbers leaves behind a legacy of discovering, archiving, performing and recording works of 'forgotten' composers from the interbellum era. Herbers and the Ebony Band have...

?A re-release of his critically accalaimed recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach?s Secular Cantatas. Recordings from 1994 - 2000, part of the project The Complete Bach on 172 CDs. h?nssler CLASSIC is proud to present Helmuth Rilling's landmark recording of...

?A famous French horn virtuoso in his days, the shadowy figure known only as 'Mr Charles the Hungarian' was an eccentric opportunist who travelled to Dublin in March 1742. A natural entrepreneur, he capitalized on the 'Handelmania' surrounding Handel's...

?"Perc? jusques au fond du coeur" ("Pierced to my heart's depths") is a tragic proclamation of Le Cid's voice, at last put to music by "Mr Charpentier, famed for a thousand works that charmed all of France". This collection of courtly arias, serious...

?"I don't want to betray that constantly sounding tone in me, through which I hear the world around," acknowledged Sergei Rachmaninov. This tone stimulated by the intonations of folk melodies and bell ringing, and the imagery of the Russian landscape,...

?"At just 9 years of age Luca had already toured the world with Libera Boys Choir. A featured soloist on Aled Jones' track Vespera and Kurt Bestors' Ave Maria he has also been invited to perform at many charity events. In 2022 Luca was Runner Up in BBC...

?"... Ne quid nimis", "nothing more than the necessary... " - so in the early twentieth century the philosopher Ortega y Gasset expressed his idea of a "suprarealist" art, an aesthetic capable of overcoming the sentimental sublimation of late Romanticism...

.In a world where climate change is at the heart of our attention, these eight delightfully unhinged seasons are scattered across a wildly singular time. They cast an artistic blur on our perception of what has always seemed taken for granted,...