Orchestral & Symphonic

(Hymn) a fine and vital performance that vividly conveys the exultant and the mystical nature... Egdon Heath is unforgettable: often frightening and desolate, here and there calm and serene, but never sun-lit. Holst did indeed find in Hardy's description...

(Guitar) "Yepes' cadenza is as clean and bright as a new pin, and his rapid repeated-note finish is fantastic." "I am coming to regard the Fantasia para un gentilhombre with it's gracious nobility and baroque feeling as a masterpiece to match the more...

(Concerto): Hickox unfurls the opening tutti richly, nobley, purposefully... no lack of brilliance, the fireworks are dashingly, tastefully despatched... sudden flashes of Paganinian dazzle(others): "The slow movement of the Piano Concerto... with a...

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(9th) They capture not only the joyful irreverence but the sense of danger lurking beneath... solo wind playing is excellent throughout... brilliantly played and vividly recorded (CD Review) (15th) "with a superbly vivid Fifteenth, generally hard-driven...

(4-CD box set) The Chicago Symphonies is a magnificent four-CD boxed set by Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet. Each disc includes one of the four symphonies composed by Wadada Leo Smith for this quartet. The first three symphonies, "Gold Symphony,"...

(2-CD set) This double CD release simply entitled "Messiah" is regarded as one of the best choral pieces of music, whether from a classical or religious view point. Messiah is an English oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel, an English composer of...

(2-CD set) The Ensemble Jehan de Channey reawakens the mysterious medieval period. The troubadours' repertory of the XIIth century is balanced against that of the Goliards, discovered in the Benediktbeuren monastery and which bears it's name (Carmina...

- The latest cpo release to feature the works of Paul Graener contains yet more impressive selections from his symphonic oeuvre. - His Piano Concerto (1926) of neoclassical character and popular flair and his Symphonietta (1906) occupy the focus. - Like...