Orchestral & Symphonic

The story of Leonora, taken from the French novel by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is familiar to us through Beethoven's only opera. A daring wife disguises herself in order to be hired as a prison guard and thus rescue her unjustly detained husband. The same...

The splendour of Mozart's motet Exsultate, jubilate stands out in a repertoire that has for too long remained in the shadows: the magnificent output of church music composed in 18th-century Milan, the city in which Mozart, then not even 17 years old,...

The spirit of his native Hungary is seldom far away from the concert music of Mikl's R zsa, in spite of some 55 years spent in Hollywood and his long association with music for the cinema.1. Moderato Assai 2. Allegro Giocoso 3. Adagio 4. Allegro Con...

The Spanish baroque ensemble Forma Antiqva rescues forgotten masterpieces. The conductor and artistic director Aar?n Zapico opens the musical treasury in the archives of Oviedo Cathedral and presents Spanish masterpieces of the 17th century to the world...

The Soviet musical establishment considered Kabalevsky a "dream composer," as his compositions fit the prescribed formula for proper Russian music: bright, straightforward, folk-based works which made few demands on the listener's intellect. Still, his...

The South Korean Suhyun Kim (viola) studies concert performance at the Hochschule f?r Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Ukrainian Ievgeniia Iermachkova (piano) is a lecturer at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in...

The source of the subtitle, "Jupiter," traditionally associated with Mozart's great last symphony, is not known. At any rate, the composer was not responsible for it. Mozart truly did "launch his lightning" in the summer of 1788 when he composed his...

The sound, particularly on the Esterhazy recordings, is warm and full, and performances excellent... Telemann's inexhaustible invention is well demonstrated, these collective concertos offer the greatest interest... Concerto for 3 Trumpets etc brings a...

The Sound of Simon Rattle - The Musical intoxication of a great era: on 7 September, 2002, Sir Simon Rattle was appointed new Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, marking the start of a new and memorable era for the world of music. Rattle has...

The songs contained in the volumes of the Catholic Classics series have stood the test of time. These are definitive Catholic songs-the one's that are always popular, that everyone sings, knows by heart, and wants to hear over and over again. Perhaps...

The son of a distiller in the Moravian provinces became the Director of the Royal-Imperial Court Opera in Vienna, the "god of the southern zones". Gustav Mahler's life is the story of a triumphant career. Cheered as a conductor, admired and met with...

The so-called Rossini Renaissance (post-WWII) was an outright revolution, as it led to the rediscovery and staging of a great number of Rossini operas, especially of the serious genre. Otello, one of the finest of Rossini's serious works, marked one of...