Orchestral & Symphonic

The world is looking forward to seeing Paris's Notre-Dame restored to it's familiar physical glory. In the meantime, the musical joys of the great cathedral can be experienced with the singers of it's choir school, Ma?trise Notre-Dame de Paris. Backed by...

The works on this recording focus on a singular genre created by a singular composer. The kind of piece Charles Ives called a 'et' is usually a larger work made by putting together independently-written smaller pieces.1. Impression of the St Gaudens in...

The works on this recording cover the entire span of Britten' published output - from the Simple Symphony of 1934, to the string orchestral arrangement of Lachrymae completed in the last year of his life. Britten always retained a special affection f.1...

The works of George Enescu, a Romanian composer nurtured on the musical traditions of his country, also has deep roots in the French musical world of the early twentieth century. This recording from Les Dissonances and David Grimal, explores that twofold...

The work was produced with the Virtual Stage system, the innovative method that features new blended methods, between real and virtual, between philology and technology, applied to the operatic setting for both audio and scene through multitrack...

The work of Louis Vierne, organist at Notre-Dame de Paris and master of the symphonic instrument, is reflected here in all it's rich variety: from the poetic 'Pi?ces en style libre' to his final masterpiece, the monumental 'Sixth Symphony', via the...

The Wooden Prince is a fairy tale ballet with an original story by Bart k' literary acquaintance Bela BalAzs, who had also written the libretto to Bluebeard' Castle. Though outwardly sunny in it's subject matter, the Wooden Prince.1. The Wooden Prince (A...

The Windsbach Boys Choir is among the leaders of boys' choirs and has an international reputation with the public and press. He is praised repeatedly for the "cleanliness and lightness, balance and softness" of it's sound. (FAZ) On his new CD, the choir...

The whole conception of performance in these days is too heavy, loud and blatant, said Walter Gieseking in 1926, expressing his preference for "more delicacy and ethereal refinement of tone". That same year the New York Times praised the German pianist...

The Westminster label legacy of a master Chopin interpreter, issued complete for the first time in an 'original covers' box of new remasterings. Almost half a century before Lang Lang, the pianist Fou Ts'ong took Europe and then the US by storm. With his...

The Welsh flautist Emily Beynon plays a selection of British flute concertos, accompanied by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Bramwell Tovey. Beynon is the Principal Flute of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Equally at home in front...

The Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel rose with astonishing speed to the top ranks of international operatic stardom in the 1990s. He is known for a big, warm voice, intelligent and dramatically apt portrayals, a six-foot-three-inch frame and those intangibles...