Super-Audio CD

Neeme Jarvi conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the original, uncut version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake with James Ehnes as the solo violinist. It is the second installment in Chandos' series devoted to Tchaikovsky's three great ballets, the...

Neeme J?rvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Copp?lia by Delibes. Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged twelve, studying under...

Neeme J?rvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande's exploration of 19th century French orchestral works continues with a third release spotlighting the opera composer Jacques Offenbach whose sense of satire was evident in his operattas and most famously...

Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949) completed three string quartets, and they hold a place of their own among her compositions. No. 1 in D minor was the very first instrumental work that she presented at a public concert (1915). No. 2 in G minor, op. 14 (1922),...

Mystical tales, legendary figures, elves, demons, fabulous characters... All compositions of this recording have one thing in common: the supernatural. To trace the underlying legends, stories and mythologies means to give expression to the different...

My Sixth will propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and digested my first five symphonies.' Thus Gustav Mahler, writing in 1904 to his biographer Richard Specht. Mahler did nothing to help solve...

My LIVE Stories was recorded live over two days in the world famous Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, USA and is described by Susan as her 'best recording yet'. With an ensemble of top notch session musicians and a first class recording environment inside...

My aim with this recording is not only to realize a beautiful dream, to conquer the stage and to touch people's hearts, and to lead my listeners on a journey of great emotions in the world of music. I would like to uncover the dreams that lie dormant in...

My aim was to convey human feelings and passions in this work, Shostakovich said of his newly completed Symphony No.10 in 1953. And it is clear exactly what it was that he wanted to relate: Stalin was dead, and after his music had been publicly denounced...

Musica Nova Harmony Des Nations 15 This new recoding by Jordi Savall and his ensemble Hesp?rion XXI enables us to discover the best pieces for consort of viols composed between 1500 and 1700. London, Venice, Rome, Versailles, Madrid : all the great...

Music written to honor the Virgin Mary is the focus of this Super Audio CD of Gregorian chants performed by the rich voices of the Gloriae Dei Cantores Men's Schola. Theotokos, the Star of the Sea - while history's names for her are as varied as the...

Music has always been used throughout the ages to convey certain states, emotions. Especially in the music of the 19th century, it was important for composers to express inner states - landscapes of the soul - in their music. They seek nature as a...