Orchestral & Symphonic

William Baines is one of those exceptionally gifted composers whose music still remains little known to the general music-loving public. Deeply rooted in Nature, it shows influences from Debussy, Scriabin, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel and has totally...

William Alwyn composed some fifty works for the orchestra, including five symphonies, a sinfonietta, concertos for flute, oboe, violin, piano, harp, three concerti grossi, and many other descriptive shorter pieces.1. Moderato Molto 2. Adagio Con Moto 3...

Wilhelm Furtw?ngler's early 1950s studio recording of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde on EMI / Columbia remains one of the finest on the market. Less well-known is this live recording from Berlin, 1947, arguably offering a better conducted performance from...

Wilhelm Furtw?ngler is a musical titan, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Some would say he is the greatest of all. A supreme, inimitable interpreter of the Austro-German symphonic repertoire, and of Wagner's music dramas, he remains a...

Wiener Philharmoniker/Leonard Bernstein - "Beethoven: 9 Symphonies" Marking the 2018 centenary of a conductor, composer and musical legend like none before or since, DG, together with the Leonard Bernstein Estate, presents the first in a whole suite of...

Wiener Philharmoniker -"Deluxe Edition, Volume 1" - Presenting a fascinating cross-section of the musical history of the Wiener Philharmoniker. It includes over 70 minutes of previously unreleased recordings with The Clarinotts (Andreas, Daniel and Ernst...

Widely regarded as one of China's leading composers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Zhou Long writes music that is consistently compelling. The Rhyme of Taigu revives the spirit of Chinese court music from the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD), drawing on...

Widely acclaimed for their Naxos recordings of Dvork's Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 and No. 9 'From the New World' with the Symphonic Variations, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony here present his Symphony No. 6, which at once pays tribute to Dvork's...

Whoever has had the privilege of hearing a concert conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov at least once in his life has had the absolute musical Dionysian experience, that of the hurricane, of the breath-taking overflow, the quasi-mystical experience of a ritual...

Who doesn't like the ciaccona, ciacona or chaconne - the exuberant dance in which the upper voices fantasize over a bass scheme, imitating and inspiring each other. The ciaconna, which may have come to Spain from South America, quickly spread throughout...

Who but Alexandre Tharaud would follow an album devoted to Beethovens formidable final three piano sonatas with a recital of compact pieces by Lully, Rameau, Franois Couperin and other composers associated with the French court in the 17th and 18th...

While the late Romantic composer Paul Dukas may be best known for his phantasmagoric 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice', his superlative orchestrations, choirs and cantatas are worthy of more attention than they have been given. Dukas was known to destroy his...