Orchestral & Symphonic

The Seattle Symphony releases powerful live performances of works by two brilliant American composers, William L. Dawson and Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker. These deeply expressive scores - recorded in the stunning acoustics of Benaroya Hall - take...

The Season's Sacred Mystery (2016) by Carol Mastrodomenico (soprano), David Bott (soprano), David Chalmers (organ), Gloriae Dei Brass Ensemble - "Allow this album to transport you right past the malls and into the season's sacred mystery. " - The Dallas...

The saxophone quartet SIGMA Project is based in Madrid. One of their key efforts is to create and promote a broad and diverse repertoire. The quartet came to Mexico for the first time in November 2012. Over the course of the following ten years, it has...

The San Francisco Chronicle raved, "Magnificent... The most vibrant, exhilarating stretch of musical showmanship this organization has offered in many a long season.1. Overture (Allegro) (Act I) 2. Overture (Allegro) 3. Overture (Andante) 4. Arioso: Care...

The Salzburg court conductor Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is known today as a composer of excellent violin literature. His works are appreciated by violinists for their great artistry and virtuosity. Max Gandolf, the art-minded prince archbishop of...

The Salonorchester Schwanen holds a clear position: no trumpets, no jazz saxophone phrases in the place of two clarinets, a flute and a string group. From the wide range of light music of the early twentieth century it has therefore chosen not the music...

The Russian-born composer Vernon Duke produced a distinguished body of concert music. His Piano Concerto was written for Arthur Rubinstein, who had requested a 'one-movement piano concerto, pianistically grateful and not too cerebral.1. 1. Maestoso 2. 2...

The Russian composer Alla Pavlova, now resident in the USA, has written a number of orchestral works, including five symphonies and the ballet Sulamith. The orchestration of her Fifth Symphony is lighter and simpler than that of the preceding four.1...

The Ruisi Quartet makes it's recording debut on Pentatone with Big House, bringing together music by Matthew Locke, Joseph Haydn and Oliver Leith. Spanning nearly four centuries, this combination of composers establishes a harmonious as well as dissonant...

The Rosebud String Quartet was formed in 2013 at the inaugural Rosebud Chamber Music Festival, an annual summer chamber music showcase in rural Alberta. Comprised of principal players from the Edmonton Symphony and the orchestras of the Canadian Opera...

The Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches volume sixty-two and makes an interesting (although temporary) departure. These four works by Charles Gounod are for pedal piano (a piano that includes a separate keyboard for the feet, to be played in the...

The Roman Trilogy consisting of "Fountains of Rome," "Pines of Rome" and "Festivals of Rome" is among Respighi's best-known and best-loved work. It is complemented here by four lesser-known works: "Church Windows," "Metamorphose on," "Belkis," "Queen of...