Orchestral & Symphonic

With over 10 million recordings sold around the world, no orchestra has had more albums on the Billboard charts than the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra! Home for the Holidays is the culmination of a year-long celebration of the inaugural season of Pops...

With neo-classical works such as those on this disc, Stravinsky showed that great music could still be composed with the simplest of means, recalling Beethoven' achievement yet using his own thoroughly modern rhythmic vitality, grace and refinement.1...

With Mitropoulos, Walter and Kempler, Hermann Scherchen was among the most constant promoters of Mahler's music in the years in which the Bohemian musician was little considered. These interpretations of the First (1954) and Second (1958) Symphony, which...

With Johann Adolph Hasse Reloaded (Oc 830), Valer Sabadus Became the Shooting Star Amongst Countertenors. In December 2013, He Appeared in Mozart Roles for the Styriarte. The Salzburg Master Wrote Them for Some of the Greatest Castrati of His Time:...

With it's mixture of funny, bawdy and hedonistic texts taken from anonymous poets of the Middle Ages, twentieth century German composer Carl Orff created in Carmina Burana a choral work of powerful pagan sensuality and direct physical excitement.1. O...

With it's forty-five chorale preludes, the Orgelb?chlein bears witness to a mastery of the art of improvisation on the organ, as the congregation heard it at the time before singing the hymn in it's turn. It was a tempting experiment to revive this...

With his masterly Vespers, composed for a cappella choir in 1915, Rachmaninoff immerses the listener in a musical universe of sublime profundity and interiority. This work, inspired by the ancient church modes, is one of the fi1. Rachmaninov: All-Night...

With his London album for Glossa, Florentine countertenor Filippo Mineccia has constructed a compelling survey of arias written for the European stage by the colorful and much-travelled Attilio Ariosti. Mineccia has quickly become one of the exciting...

With his First Concerto, the young Brahms set his own course in the wake of Beethoven and Schumann and at the same time poured forth his personal emotions in this work of impressive dimensions. Russian soloist, Alexander Melnikov, has chosen an...

With his compositions Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497) had a major influence on the music of the fifteenth century. For example it may have been Ockegham, who founded the long tradition of the artistic compositions of the chanson L'homme arme. In...

With Forgotten Arias countertenor Philippe Jaroussky pays tribute to composers of the late Baroque era and to the great librettist of the age, Pietro Metasasio. All ten arias on the album, written between 1748 and 1770 by nine composers, are heard in...

With Farewells, Warsaw-born countertenor Jakub J?zef Orlinski, partnered by pianist Michal Biel, offers a panorama of Polish song. Often nostalgic in spirit, the programme of the album spans 150 frequently turbulent years. "Michal and I started exploring...