Orchestral & Symphonic

The players have an excellent sense of spontaneity, and of the chamber music element which is part of the style of these works. They listen acutely, and respond sensitively to Mendelssohn's vivid sense of string color.1. Adagio E Grave - Allegro 2...

The Planets features 7 movements based on the planets in our own solar system excluding Pluto and the Earth itself. This work is conducted by Zubin Mehta and performed by the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra. From the thunderously charged emotion of "Mars,...

The pieces presented here, beside being absolute master pieces, reflect those composers that Schumann held in high esteem: Beethoven and Schubert. If the true value of Beethoven and Schumann's compositions were recognized during the composers lifetime,...

The pieces featured on this album show two faces of Krzysztof Meyer's music from the 1980s. The Piano Concerto was created in the spring of 1979 and performed soon afterwards, but apparently it did not satisfy the composer, since in the autumn of 1989 he...

the Piano Quintet does full justice to the densely packed chords and widely spaced spread of sound which Weinberg avowedly learnt from his mentor Shostakovich. It is engaging, expertly written and played with great address by the composer himself... To...

The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770-1836) - friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck - has only recently begun to be discovered. He was an important influence on composers of the next generation but...

The piano is the powerhouse of musical instruments: with it's vast tonal range and it's ability to simultaneously supply chords and melodies, it generally takes the dominating place in virtually any setup. So what happens if you compose and play music...

The piano duo and twin sisters, Christina and Michelle Naughton, pay tribute to their homeland with the album 'American Postcard'. It offers music by four US composers: John Adams, Aaron Copland, Conlan Nancarrow and Paul Schoenfield. As the sisters...

The piano cycles played by Herbert Henck on this double CD - Hymns from a Great Temple, Dances and Chants of the Seids (accompanied by Trilok Gurtu on the daff), Seekers of the Truth, and Melody for the Enneagram - are a collaboration between the mystic...

The piano concerto was the category in which Mozart most consistently excelled, in which he most successfully combined elements of virtuosity and depth, of chamber music and symphonic style, of regard for his public and for personal expression. No. 17 is...

The Philharmonie Festiva orchestra led by Gerd Schaller have released the complete symphony Bruckner cycle and figure prominently in the annual Ebrach summer festival which is dedicated to the Bruckner repertory and performed in an ancient Cistercian...

The personality of an "anonymous" album lies in the centrality of the instrument performing and in it's connection with the type of writing that relates all the pieces; light and refined melodic lines, delicate phrasing and a series of dynamic contrasts...