Orchestral & Symphonic

The recorded legacy of the great English tenor Peter Pears is substantial and wide-ranging. It embraces Baroque repertory and Elizabethan songs as well as a vast amount of twentieth-century English music and German Lieder This anniversary collection...

The recorded legacy of Albert Wolff is one of the most sought-after by collectors. Of Dutch parentage, but born in Paris, Wolff was something of a polymath: pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and had a long career in recording studios beginning in...

The range of Penderecki's music is exemplified by this disc, which presents five works written over a period of nearly 40 years. Hymne an den heiligen Adalbert was composed in 1997 and evokes the martyred eighth-century Bishop of Prague through spare but...

The Ragazze Quartet contribute not only the sonority of four string instruments, but also the energy of four musicians, who at the same time, connect with the music and the singer. The challenge, was to remain faithful to Schubert while fully exploiting...

The PURCELL Choir was founded in 1990 in Budapest by Gy?rgy Vashegyi for the performance of Purcell's Baroque opera Dido & Aeneas. Few suspected at the time that the group was to become the most respected choir in Hungary thirty years later. All the...

The prospect of hearing Alina Ibragimova in two of the most important concertos written for the violin is in itself irresistibly enticing, but Shostakovich aficionados will also welcome an opportunity to hear the rarely performed original opening to the...

The programme on this CD begins and ends with transcriptions of works by Beethoven. The first piece is the Allegretto (2nd movement) from Beethoven's 7th Symphony in the arrangement by Franz Liszt, and the programme ends with a solo piano version of...

The programme for Alexandre Tharaud's first album of Schubert comprises the four Impromptus D 899 (op 90), the six Moments musicaux and, in Tharaud's own transcription for piano, four excerpts from the stage music for Rosamunde. When Tharaud performed...

The program of this album offers a varied selection of chamber music with piano written by Hans G between 1922 and 1940. Among these, the main work on the album is undoubtedly the Piano Quartet written for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein. The...

The profile of the early 20th century composer, conductor and pianist Alfredo Casella continues with the fourth captivating volume of orchestral works performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Casella's advocacy and enthusiastic...

The production takes itself none too seriously, the Baroque absurdities of the plot enhanced by absurd costumes... Fagioli rises to the challenge, as he offsets vocal pyrotehcnics with poignancy... - BBC Music Magazine.1. Artaserse: I. Allegro 2...

The product of almost 20 years' work, a true fusion of many types of opera, thanks to the buffa elements of Till's trickster personality, the drama of Klaas' death, and the opera engage nature that introduces the characters of Charles V, Philip II and...