Orchestral & Symphonic

This recording features two major works of the chamber repertoire - one by Anton?n Dvork, the other by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The two composers were contemporaries, born just a year apart: Tchaikovsky in 1840 and Dvork in 1841. In the 1880s...

This recording features the Bugallo-Williams Duo playing Gy?rgy Kurtg's complete works for piano duet and two pianos as included in the eight published volumes of Jt?kok (Games). The work's original concept was as a collection of pedagogical performance...

This recording captures the UK premiere performance of James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, performed and recorded in the presence of the composer. The world premiere of the work was given by the Dutch Radio...

This recording came to fruition thanks to nearly 25 years worth of effort. In 1997, Marcel P?r?s and his Ensemble Organum began a simultaneous exploration of the Mozarabic rite (the liturgical chant peculiar to the Christians living in Spain at the time...

This program from the BBC Symphony Orchestra features compelling performances of two very different symphonies. The complex, visionary pantheism of Vaughan Williams's 'Pastoral' is an ideal foil for the unbridled ferocity of his Symphony No.4. The album...

This program brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock. Neil Sedaka's Manhattan Intermezzo explores the New York of today and yesterday with it's melting pot of...

This portrait CD provides insight into the sensitive and exciting sound aesthetics of the composer Malika Kishino. Nature and beauty constitute the main points of reference of her oeuvre. Japanese culture and it's aesthetics leave a mark on Kishino's...

This 'po?me de l'extase is something else altogether... this develops into a thrillingly intense, even intimidating experience. Subtle refinement is scarcely on the agenda, yet the sheer theatrical fervour of this account is hard to resist, and those...

This piece by contemporary Canadian composer Peter-Anthony Togni is a 55-minute setting of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah's lamentations for solo bass clarinet, mixed choir a cappella and solo soprano. This compelling new work juxtaposes...

This penultimate volume charts Strauss' life from the revolutions of 1848 to his trip to London to perform before Queen Victoria the following year.1. Br?nner National-Garde-Marsch, Op. 231 2. Landes-Farben, Walzer, Op. 232 3. Huldigungs-Quadrille, Op...

This penultimate concert, consisting of Beethoven's Second and Seventh Symphonies from 17 August 1980 by the legendary Austrian conductor Karl B?hm in his old age, just days short of a yea before his death, reveals the intense mutual commitment he...

This new release presents two major works by the American composer, David Post, his Concertino Cinque for clarinet and string quartet, and his Piano Quintet for piano and string quartet, both works heard in virtuosic performances by the Martinu Quartet,...