Orchestral & Symphonic

To mark their 30th Anniversary, Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Ad?s are releasing their acclaimed Beethoven and Barry cycle as a box set. The works were recorded between 2017 and 2019 at Barbican Hall, London and Theatre Royal, Brighton. Thomas Ad?s: "This...

To mark their 15th anniversary, Naive presents limited edition 2 CD sets featuring recordings from their most emblematic artists.1. Moderato Nobile 2. Romance: Andante 3. Finale: Allegro Assai Vivace 4. Allegro Moderato 5. Canzonetta: Andante 6. Finale:...

To mark the Coronation of King Charles III, we have brought together the most famous pieces of music from the coronations of James II in 1685 and George II in 1727. The masterpieces by Purcell and Handel display an extraordinarily evocative force: their...

To mark the 300th Anniversary of the publication of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Julien Libeer had the idea of presenting it in an unusual light: here he initiates a dialogue in which Bach's major- key prelude-and-fugue pairs 'converse' with...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of noted German conductor Ferdinand Leitner, Profil Edition: Gunter Haenssler presents this wonderful 12 CD retrospective to honor his recorded legacy. Leitner became known primarily as a champion of opera,...

To mark Helmut Lachenmann's 75th birthday, WERGO presents a CD re-release of the former LP of 1985 with the composer's works "Accanto", "Consolation I" and "Kontrakadenz". This audio document is a historical recording for it is actually one of the first...

To link Debussy with the compositions of Tristan Murail is to place musical evolution in a historical logic of sonic upheavals, says the pianist Fran?ois-Fr?d?ric Guy. Fascinated by idioms that revolutionize music, today he takes us on a journey between...

To get an idea of how thoroughly Marin Alsop has studied the composer's style, check out the fourth of the Hungarian Pictures (it's title translated here as "Slightly Tipsy"). She has the orchestra playing this music with the same kind of erratic, lurch...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy the National Symphony Orchestra presented a new work by Peter Lieberson called "Remembering JFK," an orchestral piece with movie star Richard Dreyfuss narrating excerpts...

To accompany her best-selling memoir of the same name, pianist and author Anna Goldsworthy presents a stunning collection of piano works tracing her first steps towards a life in music. Through music by Debussy, Shostakovich, Chopin and others, Anna...

Tippett never hesitated to go his own way. He was expelled from grammar school for attempting to convert his friends to atheism, espoused Trotskyism, and, in 1943, was jailed for three months as a conscientious objector. Tippett's time would come,...

Tiny Thunder is an album of Nicholas Chase's music that presents two quietly entrancing piano works-the meditative solo "Zu?w?ng," and the more virtuosic piano-four-hands piece "Tiny Thunder" - performed by pianist Bryan Pezzone. Both works, held in...