Orchestral & Symphonic

The symphonies of Johann Baptist Wanhal are among the most important works of the classical period. Bold and imaginative, powerful and lyrical, Wanhal' symphonies are only now beginning to win wider recognition as the masterpieces they are.1. Allegro...

The Symphonie Fantastique was Hector Berlioz's first great work and it remains his best known. With it's first performance at the Paris Conservatoire on 5th December 1830 he sprang into the forefront of Romantic music, recognizable at once as a composer...

The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95-107. The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From...

The symphonic oeuvre of the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz has never before been recorded in it's entirety "from one source", so that the series beginning here represents a pioneering act. The Third Symphony for large symphony orchestra was written in...

The Swiss Composer Gottfried von Einem would have turned 100 years old on January 24th. He was an important composer in the 20th Century. He had success on both sides of the Atlantic. Von Einem's Philadelphia Symphony with the world famous Wiener...

The Swiss composer ?mile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded on this fourth album of his piano music document his...

The Swedish Chamber Orchestra Orebro and their chief conductor Dausgaard continue their quest to record all of Beethoven's underperformed works. On this CD they present Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus," "Twelve Menuets" and "Twelve German Dances...

The supreme exponent of Viennese Mozart and his first recording of Mozart's 'rescue opera' set in a Turkish harem (Decca's first opera to be issued on LP), coupled with a superbly stylish collection of overtures. Weber's verdict on Die Entf?hrung - 'the...

The success achieved with some works represented since 1754 in Italy, his simple and elegant style, his consistently refined and appropriate orchestrations, and his revival and reworking of some already successful popular titles attracted the attention,...

The stunning 'Covent Garden Anniversary Album' released complete for the first time on CD, and coupled with Solti's firecracker accounts of Overtures and Preludes. Soloists include a range of 1960s Covent Garden stalwarts, including Carlyle, Sutherland,...

The String Symphonies are among Mendelssohn's very early works begun at the astonishing age of twelve years old. By then, he was already prodigious in his output along with regularly presenting in public parlor recitals in his home. The sterling L'Orfeo...

The String Quartet in F major, Opus 17, No.2, opens with a first subject entrusted to the first violin, which provides much of the thematic material to the obvious dismay of German critics of the time, who deplored the lack of counterpoint in works of...