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The air shimmers and glows, and somewhere in the mists, a solitary horn gives a lonely call. The stuff of fairytales? The truth is, it's impossible to write about Bruckner's majestic Fourth Symphony without letting the imagination soar; he never wrote...

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields - one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world - is renowned for it's polished and refined sound, rooted in outstanding musicianship. Today, the Academy performs some 100 concerts around the world each year,...

The 7th volume in the Linn Collection series features a selection of tracks from it's award-winning catalogue. + Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett celebrated Irving Berlin on 'Say It Isn't So', a Telegraph '10 Best Album of 2013.' + Dunedin...

The 6th installment of PentaTone's Wagner Edition brings US to the epic story of Tannhe?user, performed by top Wagner singers, the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, and conductor Marek Janowski. This Wagner Edition represents the...

The 32 Piano Sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven are often referred to as the 'New Testament' of the keyboard literature, following on the 'Old Testament' of J.S. Bach's 48 preludes and fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier. Brautigam's recordings, part of a...

The 20th anniversary of the Bruckner Festival in St. Florian in 2017 was celebrated with the Fifth Symphony, B major WAB 105 by Anton Bruckner. Interpreted by the Altomonte Orchestra with maestro Remy Ballot - the brilliant combination which since 2011...

The 1st Symphony was inspired by five poems which the composer wrote himself, entitled "In der Ruh der Seele". The contemplative text contributes to the sombre tone of the piece in which every word gives rise to a rich, expressive and romantic spectrum...

The 1980 Deutsche Grammophon debut of violinist Shlomo Mintz re-issued on Pentatone's Remastered Classics series, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. Mintz then still in the fresh bloom of both critical and popular acclaim...

The 150th anniversary year of Jean Sibelius has seen a surge of releases of the complete cycles of his sweeping symphonies. The Lahti Symphony Orchestra whose Sibelius discography has been hailed as revelatory presents their second visitation with the...

The "Hochschule f?r Musik und Tanz" Cologne, the WDR, ARS Produktion and the sponsors of the "Hochschule f?r Musik und Tanz" Cologne would like to make it possible for students to produce a professional album and thus especially promote it. The musicians...

That's what happens when you let yourself be guided by prejudices: Emilie Mayer's contemporaries in the mid-19th century were unaware of the outstanding quality of her compositions because they only saw the woman instead of the composer. You might think...

That Ba?l?ro, a shepherd's song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favorite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of Ren?e Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all...