Orchestral & Symphonic

Yuri Falik (b. 1936) is still active as a composer and was a pupil of Boris Arapov. He was a gifted cellist but gave up that career to focus on composition. He is a professor of composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (formerly Leningrad).1...

Yundi, one of the most celebrated and influential pianists of today, has returned to Warner Classics with the signature of a long-term agreement between him and the label. His first release under the new agreement is an album of Chopin's Piano Concertos...

Yuja Wang/Gustavo Dudamel/Los Angeles Philharmonic -"Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody" - To mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases Yuja Wang's most ambitious project to date! In February 2023...

Ysaye's Sonatas for solo violin were sketched out in a fevered twenty-four hours during the summer of 1923, a response to the question of why - in over two hundred years - no one had attempted to follow the path forged by Johann Sebastian Bach. Each of...

Ysaáe was genuinely responsible for re-creating the art of the violin. Endowed with an individual but exceptional technique, a unique, almost voice-like tone that made his violin sing, his principal aim was expression and the genius of his...

Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and traditions that go beyond classical music by bringing together four American string virtuosos and creating a new kind of chamber ensemble. Joining Yo-Yo Ma are bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolinist Chris Thile and...

Youthful piano quintets from Korngold, the arch-Romantic, and Bart?k, in his pre-modernist vein, make a fascinating comparison. This album, from Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet, offers a snapshot of early twentieth-century Austro-Hungarian...

Young Steinway Artist Han Xiang David Xu is an active Chinese Canadian concert pianist, who maintains deep interest and extra-musical possibilities in other art forms, including ballet, painting, and Taichi. As a martial art practitioner, Xu is heavily...

Young soprano Rosa Feola captured international attention as a treble prize-winner at the Plcido Domingo World Opera Competition (2010). Attributed 'blazing star potential' for her sensitive phrasing and imaginative coloring of words (Telegraph), she...

Young Russian-American pianist Natasha Paremski performs two of the most iconic works ever composed for piano and orchestra. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by rising-star French conductor, Fabien Gabel, one of the most sought-after young...

Young Pianist & Composer Demian Dorell has recently completed work on his first solo Piano Project. Reimagining the music on Nick Drake's third album as a new incarnation, the debut album "Nick Drake's Pink Moon, a Journey on Piano' was recorded at Peter...

You never know where you have Riisager: he is the man of surprises and caprices, wrote a Danish newspaper after the first performance of Knud+?ge Riisager's Symphony No. 3 in 1932. Indeed, this album presents a collection of highly original and...