Super-Audio CD

Song composition has been a constant in British music since the lute and consort works of the early seventeenth century. By 1900, it had developed into a sophisticated genre embraced by almost all serious composers. The music on this amply-filled disc...

Something old, something new, something borrowed something blue is part of a traditional English bridal rhyme. It refers to gifts of little things given to the bride to bring good luck. It's message is not to marry on the spur of the moment. However,...

Soir?e captures the atmosphere of informal, domestic music making. Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko?en offers an intimate and highly personal collection of international songs together with an outstanding group of musical friends, including Sir...

So is my love is about love and the beloved, and this includes the sense of love awakened in us by religious faith and by nature. In works by Dyrud, Odegaard, Havr?y, Daniel-Lesur and Stockhausen the countless facets of love are painted in music and...

Slowhand Eric Clapton has been in the spotlight for close on fifty years and the portrait of his artistry is a complex one - from his early days as a guitar icon to a songwriter of great sensitivity, as well as an interpreter of everything from blues and...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra join forces once again for the latest installment in their critically acclaimed exploration of Felix Mendelssohn's symphonies. Commonly known as the 'Reformation' Symphony, Mendelssohn's Symphony...

Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and chorus and a stellar cast of soloists in a concert performance of Weber's eerily fantastical opera, Der Freischetz. Der Freischetz is heralded as one of the cornerstones of Romantic opera,...

Sir Antonio Pappano leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a pair of symphonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams that span the build-up and aftermath of the Second World War. Throughout the Fourth Symphony Vaughan Williams channels tension and power through the...

Sir Andrew Davis continues to champion the lesser-known works of Sir Arthur Bliss with this coupling of The Enchantress, Mary of Magdala and Meditations on a theme by John Blow. Dame Sarah Connolly and James Platt are the soloists, with the BBC Symphony...

Single-layer pressing. Only playable on dedicated SACD players. Sony.1. Overture 2. Why Can't the English? 3. Wouldn't It Be Loverly 4. The Flower Market 5. I'm An Ordinary Man 6. With a Little Bit of Luck 7. Just You Wait 8. Servants' Chorus 9. The Rain...

Sing a new song unto the Lord! What motto could be more fitting for this debut by the BachWerkVokal? Framed by Bach's festive New Year's Day Cantata and his double-choral motet on Psalm 98, this recording by the instrumentally and vocally multifaceted...

Sinfonia of London and John Wilson present an album that celebrates the golden age of Hollywood. Sinfonia of London rose to fame in the 1950s as the leading recording orchestra of the day, appearing in the musical credits of more than 300 films,...