Orchestral & Symphonic

The performances of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra conducted by Adam Fischer are still considered one of the best complete recordings, fully capturing Haydn's style: wit, charm, fire, balance and transparency. These were recorded in the famous...

The perfect winter album from the internationally acclaimed German soprano Diana Damrau. A collection of sacred music and Christmas songs recorded with the Hannover Orchestra under conductor Riccardo Minasi and Richard Whilds Features well-known hits...

The Pastoral thrives on Biret' strength as a colorist. This performance is also quite a tribute to the piano as an instrument. The first movement is bathed in a golden sound, with an ethereal cantilena pervading the entire Andante that follows.1. I...

The Paganini violin concertos are above all else an exhibition of artistic effects. But when they are played, as Ingolf Turban does, with all piquant bravado and wit and taste, then they are musical fun... He played the concertos with a very taut and...

The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra's new release presents the beautiful and wondrous music of Lars Petter Hagen. After premiering the Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins in 2010, the OPO was so intrigued by Hagen's project that they...

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of the young...

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart's concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young...

The Orlando Consort's third recording for Hyperion turns to the music of Loyset Comp?re, a composer the group first investigated some twenty years ago. In the intervening decades musicological research has elevated this composer from also-ran outsider to...

The origins of these concertos, performed here by Kristian Bezuidenhout, may each be traced to a woman. The so-called "Jeunehomme" Concerto, K.271, a vehicle for rather unexpected musical daring, could instead take it's nickname from the work's...

The original vinyl albums that make up this 6-piece set were originally issued by Saydisc/Matchbox in 1969 and 1970 and consisted of re-issues of 78s recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. Albums 1 and 2 explore the music of Blind Boy Fuller and his followers;...

The original concept of Lea Desandre's Amazone is based on music of the Baroque period written specifically on the subject of the Amazons, the mythical race of female warriors. Amazone has been recorded with the magnificent ensemble Jupiter and conductor...

The organ music of Gerald Hendrie - born in England in 1935 but resident in France since 1996 - encompasses a huge range of influences, among them the organist-composers who went before him (not least Franck, Dupr? and Messiaen), dodecaphony, mediaeval...