Orchestral & Symphonic

There is a link between the style of the early masters and that of the innovators, asserted Sch?nberg. The program of this recording seeks to prove this saying of the master of the Second Viennese School. Hortense Cartier-Bresson sets up a dialogue...

There have been in History examples of music that has had a practical, concrete role, a powerful rallying role, an essential role... Elsa de Lacera and Pierre Solot wanted to sublimate the memory of the music that has changed the world by gathering...

There has never been a more legendary set of Tchaikovsky's last three symphonies than these 1960 interpretations recorded in stereo by Evgeny Mravinsky on tour with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in London and Vienna.1. Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op...

There are masterpieces of music history that are simply forgotten for a while before they are rediscovered in a later era as a mirror of one's own sensitivities. The reasons for this forgetting are manifold - in the case of Paul Dessau's fairy-tale opera...

There are many things that can be said about Herbert von Karajan, but not that he was not a dedicated musician. Beethoven's symphonies were always the workhorse of his concerts; he conducted them in concert hundreds of times, and he recorded them in full...

There are many great contemporary composers of our time, but few write music that we can relate to so easily and closely as Nikolai Kapustin. His exquisite use of techniques and musical languages of classical and jazz ensures that his music appeals to a...

There are few living pianists so well-known and with such legendary status as Evgeny Kissin. A former child prodigy, Kissin came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin's Piano Concertos 1 & 2 with the...

There are composers whose oeuvres shine so radiantly that other stars almost pale next to their splendor. This fate befell a whole epoch of composers, i.e. The 'maestros of the Mozart period'. But, beside Mozart's 'sun' there is so much to discover...

There are a number of established, conservative duo setups in Western music; but DRAX isn't one of them, and doesn't want to be. The saxophone-percussion duo, consisting of saxophonist Leo Saguiguit and percussionist Megan Arns, may be firmly rooted in...

Theme: Variation - traces an arc spanning 400 years of composition, beginning with Orlando Gibbons' The Italian Ground ca. 1605, and culminating in Variations on a Fantasia of J.S. Bach (2017), an original work from Rogosin's friend Kevin Morse. The...

The youthful agility of Samuel Adler - born in Mannheim in 1928 but long since regarded as the dean of American music - would appear to contradict the fact that he reached his 95th birthday in March 2023. This celebration of his productive life - as...

The young, already internationally successful Austrian baritone and ensemble member of the Munich G?rtnerplatztheater Daniel Gutmann presents songs by Robert Schumann based on poems by Heinrich Heine with Maximilian Kromer, piano, on this CD. In addition...